January trade shows in date clash
The popular and highly rated GB Trade Expo returns to one of its former venues for 2015 as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry, housed the show between 2004 and 2007 when it saw record attendances, and it returns there for three days on January 18th to 20th 2015.
Boasting over 160 exhibitors and thousands of top name brands, Expo is firmly established with UK dealers as their perfectly timed "must go to" trade-only event. Organiser Mark Mayo said that "its all about being in the right place at the right time, and independent research shows that 92 percent of dealers think Expo tick's their boxes. Dealer's find it a relaxed, friendly but above all informative environment that easy to get to, with free on-site parking and the pick of the market's leading vendors and specialists.
"Despite the downturn Expo has attracted and average of more than 3,600 decision-makers from some 1,800 motorcycle businesses in each of the past four years and with 20 years of serving the UK motorcycle industry Expo clearly has a winning formula".
Mayo is certainly right to point to the excellent timing of the show, and it is no surprise therefore to see that the organisers of the JPMS motorcycle trade show have settled upon the same date (January 18th/19th 2015) as they seek to re-establish their event.
The recession had not been so kind to what was originally also a very successful, very busy three day show, at Lyon in south-eastern France. After a move to Marseilles failed to galvanise dealers, the show has finally announced a Paris venue (the Parc Floral, just to the south of the city) and a range of re-branding and re-configured initiatives and incentives.
www.motorcycle-expo.com
www.jpms.fr