Craft & Cork/Partnerships
Be part of the discovery.
Craft & Cork connects regional producers with people who want to discover them. Partnerships are designed around the guest’s experience, with commercial support kept separate from recognition.
Support and selection stay separate
A partnership guests can experience.
This line is structural, not a promise in copy. It is what makes the Crown worth something to everyone, partners included.
What partners can support
The experience.
- Festival spaces, seating, water and wayfinding
- Guest programs, talks and food-led tastings
- Guide features clearly labeled as sponsored
- Journal and educational programming, clearly credited
What is never for sale
The recognition.
- Crown Recognition decisions
- Judging panels, entry outcomes or rankings
- Editorial descriptions and Guide placement order
- “Supported by [partner]. Judging remains independent.”
Ways to work together
Sponsors
Support a room full of curious people.
Activations designed around the guest’s time at the Festival, with agreed deliverables and actual performance reporting.
Hospitality
Use recognition accurately.
Restaurants and retailers can identify Crown-recognized products on menus and shelves with the supplied badge and legend.
Venues
Host the region.
Indoor spaces of roughly 35,000 to 60,000 square feet with strong circulation, for the Festival and future editions.
Media and community
Tell the makers’ stories.
Editorial collaborations, local organizations and nonprofit partners who share the focus on regional makers.
Discuss a partnership
Tell us what you have in mind.
We will reply with what is confirmed so far, what is still being decided and where a partnership could fit.