With greater than one million sq. ft of displays and 30 acres outdoors, Equip Exposition as soon as once more broke data in attendance and exhibit area gross sales. The award-winning commerce present expanded its regular footprint on the Kentucky Exposition Middle so as to add the West Wing this 12 months as a consequence of area calls for. The commerce present for the worldwide panorama, out of doors residing, and out of doors energy tools trade takes place each October and brings greater than $21 million to Louisville.
“The 2023 present was our largest thus far—in attendance, in sales space gross sales, sponsorships, and in training classes,” says Kris Kiser, President & CEO of the Outside Energy Gear Institute (OPEI), which owns Equip Exposition. “It exhibits you ways a lot corporations and producers wish to be a part of Equip Exposition and showcase their merchandise to landscapers, sellers, and your complete trade. It’s THE place to be each October for those who’re on this enterprise.”
With co-location accomplice Hardscape North America, Equip Expo absolutely occupied the North, East, and South halls of the KEC with newly added sq. footage within the West Wing.
Kiser provides, “We’ve now grown to fill the entire halls and have added an enormous a part of the West Wing to our footprint. To not point out, now we have maxed out on out of doors demo area, which is one among our hottest options. It’s the one present within the trade the place you possibly can dig, reduce, mow, mulch, and check tools earlier than shopping for. This 12 months we additionally added choose workshops in Spanish, a ladies’s reception, and an expanded UTV observe outdoors.”
This 12 months’s Equip Expo introduced collectively greater than 27,000 registered attendees from all 50 states and 46 nations. Panorama contractor registrations elevated by 20 p.c over final 12 months, and sellers had been up 5 p.c.
Plans for 2024 are nicely underway, together with a Welcome Reception at Churchill Downs, which is able to rejoice the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Kentucky Derby in Could 2024 with upgrades to the racetrack, in addition to one other enviornment live performance on the Yum! Middle in downtown Louisville.
“Constructing on the success of this 12 months’s present, we proceed to include new experiences for 2024. We’re at the moment in search of expertise for one more Yum! Middle live performance and constructing out the slate of audio system for our training sequence,” Kiser says. “Yearly, Equip Exposition invests in and commits to creating the consumer expertise distinctive in response to the trade’s wants, calls for, and market modifications. So whereas it will likely be the identical present you’ve all the time liked—it would simply get higher.”
Registration for the 2024 present is now open. Admittance to the 2024 Equip Exposition is at the moment on the early chook worth of $25 per particular person. Register right here.
For extra data go to equipexposition.com, contact the Equip Exposition workplace at [email protected], or name 502-536-7050.
