GATE8 Luggage Limited
Contestant information
Business name:
GATE8 Luggage Limited
Name:
Alistair Callender
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Elevator Pitch
Elevator Pitch:
GATE8 patent protected cabin size bags transform your business & leisure travel experience by saving you time, money & reducing frustration
Detailed elevator pitch:
GATE8 products are British invented, innovative and fresh. Appealing to both male and female travellers who wish to travel at pace, and enjoy the freedom of a highly functional product, one they can make practical use of on a regular basis. With GATE8 bags, you avoid queues at check-in, avoid baggage collection and avoid punitive baggage handling fees – how good is that? With GATE8’s very clever range of Patent Protected Cabin Size luggage, our customers have their business and leisure travel experience transformed via an affordable premium product and their feedback confirms that we are achieving our mission of saving them time, money and reducing their travel frustration.
Industry sector:
Retail
Business Plan
Your USP:
GATE8 have designed and manufactured the ONLY wheeled garment bag with zipoff laptop case (a clever two bags into one) which stands up to the challenges of the low cost carriers. GATE8 is literally changing people’s lives by enabling them to travel at pace, effortlessly and avoiding painful check-in and boarding gate excess luggage fees. Our competitive edge is based on our ability to continue to manufacture premium niche products that provide flexibility to travel with ONE bag (that protect garments leaving them ready to wear) alongside the option of the zipoff laptop bag for their technology and accessories. Ensuring our customers arrive ready to do business.
Your market:
GATE8 has entered a very competitive luggage market, up against much larger and established competitors. The global luggage market predicted to reach US$48 Billion by 2015, GATE8 is working hard to grab its slice of the cake by focusing on the lucrative business travel sector. 86% of Business Travel averages a duration 1-3 days and hand luggage is the preferred mode of travel, this is the space where GATE8 is focusing ingenuity. Business Travel on both the branded and low cost carriers is predicted to rise as the global economy continues with it's recovery, therefore GATE8's strategy to position itself as the ultimate Road Warrior bag will strengthen it's ambition to become a global brand.
Your people:
As a frequent flyer for business, it was former IT consultant (and engineering graduate) Alistair Callender’s frustration at airport security queues that first gave him the idea for his company, GATE8. Not only is this a fantastic story about innovation, but also persistence. Alistair was determined to get Lara Morgan involved in the business, because he knew Lara had launched hotel toiletries company Pacific Direct in 1991, before selling her 99 per cent stake 17 years later for £20m had knowledge of manufacturing, is an EXPERT in sales and business growth - just the person he needed. It took him 18 months of stalking but he won and the pair of them are having a ball growing the business!
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