Message Board - Other Sports: BTME or SALTEX?
9 Feb 2004 by Big D
BTME or SALTEX?
Has the time not come for the two trade shows to amalgamate? As an exhibitor you have to look at the return on outlay. Attending both shows is making it nearly impossible! The venue should be the NEC and the date should be taken after a vote by all IOG/BIGGA members. It won't happen because too many people behind the scenes have too much too lose, but once one trade show starts racing ahead of the other it might be too late for the one left behind?
Big D
9 Feb 2004 by fescue
Trade Shows
There does seem to be a growing tide of opinion on the frequency of the main trade shows: 'two a year is far too many'. I tend to agree. It is expensive for companies to run the stands and all they feel that they are doing, I have this from one of the main exhibitors, is servicing existing clients. Most business is completed out on site and not at the shows.
Maybe it would be worth considering a biannual combined event or at the vary least running each event biannually.
It would be good to take the educational/information seminars out of each show and start a recognised conference dedicated to our industry. Joining up with the NTF conference at Southport perhaps?
12 Feb 2004 by Colin Mumford
An alternative point of view
I think there shouldn't be any trade shows in this country. They should be overseas so we can all experience the kind of working jolly that members of cliques within organisations manage to get on an increasingly regular basis.
13 Feb 2004 by Loammeister
Trade Shows
Yes Fescue most business is done out on site but not everyone has the range of cover to get to all the golf courses and other sporting venues so BTME gives us at GSB Loams a good opportunity to see a lot of people in a short space of time at one venue. Saltex is held during our busiest period and orders have already been placed from our point of view. Perhaps a combination of shows will come but Harrogate is handier for the North and Scotland than Windsor. Colin those overseas trips are beyond most of us suppliers, perhaps there should be incentives for shows such as the IOG in Dublin so that Ireland can get a fuller range of exhibitors? There were certainly plenty of Irish visitors at BTME as I'm sure the figures would show.
The light at the end of the tunnel is not a train
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