For 27 years: The Milford Pumpkin Festival

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2 For 27 years: The Milford Pumpkin Festival Begun in 1992, the Milford Pumpkin Festival began as a small fundraiser for the Town Hall Auditorium. In 2000, the Milford Improvement Team took over the role of coordinating all aspects of the Milford Pumpkin Festival. It has now grown to become one of the most highly anticipated festivals in New England each Fall!

3 The Milford Pumpkin Festival is a family friendly, community event that Celebrated its 27 th year in 2016! Attracting visitors from all over New England, attendees enjoyed Free live entertainment all weekend, Spectacular fireworks & so much more! In 2016, the Milford Pumpkin Festival had a record-breaking 45,000 attendees over the 3 day weekend!

4 Traditionally held over Columbus Day Weekend, the festival takes place in And around historic Downtown Milford. Friday night of the Pumpkin Festival includes our opening ceremony, the lighting of town hall, our very popular Beer Tasting Tent, and of course our exciting fireworks display put on by Atlas Pyrotechnics! Signature Festival events include: the Great Pumpkin Weigh-in, Pumpkin Painting, Pumpkin Sales, The Pumpkin Catapult, top Arts & Crafts vendors, Scarecrow Making, Great Food, The Haunted Trail, Face Painting, two stages of LIVE Music and Entertainment all weekend, Food Vendors galore, the Talent Show,bounce houses, Carnival rides by Fanelli Amusements, and a scholarship contest. Truly a community event, The Milford Pumpkin Festival also provides the opportunity for forty+ community groups and non-profit organizations to run events during the weekend in order to raise funds for their programs.

5 The Award- winning Milford Pumpkin Festival Best Community Event by Hippo Readers in , 2016! Best Local Event at the Souhegan Valley Best of Awards in 2014, 2015 & 2016!

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20 Pumpkins, pumpkins, everywhere!

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30 Pumpkin Festival Talent Show!

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35 Festival Promotion! The Milford Pumpkin Festival produces extensive media exposure & publicity for the Town of Milford on both the state and regional level. Here are a few examples of where MIT promotes the Milford Pumpkin Festival.

36 The Milford Pumpkin Festival was covered by State and Regional television stations in 2016

37 Nashua Telegraph PF Guide Total circulation 31,000 homes IN New Hampshire 25,000, distributed in New Hampshire to 14 Rest Areas and to 100+ towns region-wide. Also, Boston Globe, Lowell Sun, Union Leader, The Hippo, Amherst Citizen, Cabinet Press, NH Business Magazine, Yankee Magazine, & many more!

38 Plus Radio, Social Media & many State & Regional Travel & Things to Do websites

39 But where the marketing really adds up exponentially, is through Earned Media. What exactly is Earned media and why is it important? Earned media is the new PR! It means a 3 rd party mentions you, therefore introducing you to a whole new audience! This can be a mention on a website, a share or a retweet on Social media, or anything else!

40 Studies show that Earned Media: has value. $1 for every time it reaches someone new. and, is what is the most likely to move the consumer into action! Why is this big? Because Earned Media is worth $6 trillion annually according to KellerFay Research!

41 When you Google the Milford Pumpkin Festival, you get a true sense of how much publicity the festival gets via Earned Media. There were so many that included info on the Festival that we stopped counting websites after 12 pages of Google! These websites were from NH, the Northeast Region, the US and Canada, and several International travel sites!

42 Many thanks to our prestigious corporate sponsors for their generous support f our events and projects in 2016!

43 For sponsorship opportunities And vendor information for the 2017 Milford Pumpkin Festival: Wendy Hunt, Executive Director Milford Improvement Team/Milford Pumpkin Festival One Union Square Milford, New Hampshire Ph: F: