Type of Vendor Definition
Retail Shop
is a business that offers a full line of reef products to the retail market. These can be
traditional physical stores and/or virtual online retail web sites.
Retail Farmer
is a business that generates a majority of its income from reef farming. These range from
large scale home farms to reef farms operating within industrial locations.
Farming Business
is a business that generates a 2/3 majority of its income from reef farming. These typically
are full time dedicated farmers that can report income to the IRS classified as farmers.
Aquarist Farmer
is typically an individual hobbyist that may trade farmed reef fragments. Some may even
sell a few fragments every year. A few of these individuals may have a business license and
some may even have a state sellers permit.
Mariculture Company
is a business that produces either physical goods or farmed organisms for the captive
reef market. The physical goods typically support captive systems utilized to promote
coral or reef organism growout. Farmed organisms can range from coral to jellyfish. Booths
are typically used to promote the companies name, product or trade mark to the retail market.
Exhibition Company
is a business that will setting up an exhibtors booth where products will be displayed
and sold to the public. These companies typically produce products for the general reef
and aquarium markets. Some or all of their products can be utilized by reef and coral
farmers and aquarist. Booths are typically used to promote the companies name, product
or trade mark to the retail market.
Online Forum or Blog
is an online web based service that supports reef keeping or captive coral maintenance.
These services can include social networks, forums or blogs. These type of organizations
will typically use a booth to promote their service. They can also sell corals donated from
their organization to raise funds.
Hobbyist Organization
is a local non-profit reef club or society. Historically these groups have been instrumental in
promoting coral farming by holding frag swaps. The Coral Farmers Market company supports
some of these groups with informational tables where they can promote their organization and
raise funds by selling some farmed corals during the SE-CFM event. In return,
we expect that they will promote this event at meetings and provide the SE-CFM with a web
site link. Please note - Only 2 tickets are given to each organization. Other organization
members will need to purchase tickets to enter the event.
