Exhibit Concepts

With Exhibit Concepts you get one company to design, fabricate, ship and install your trade show exhibit, working from a 200,000 square foot facility in Dayton, Ohio. Ned Brown founded the business in 1978, and it is now owned by his daughter, Kelli Glasser. It is listed among the stand builders in this directory.

Custom builds, rental properties and account management

You can buy a custom exhibit, rent one, or mix the two. Exhibit Concepts lists three trade show services:

• Custom exhibits, fabricated in its own production facilities
• Rental properties, which it offers as a way to save on costs
• In-house account management teams that run communication for your whole show programme

The company says it provides full turnkey planning, design, fabrication, transportation and on-site implementation for exhibits at trade shows in more than 50 countries, which matters if your schedule includes shows outside North America. If it does, read the guides to shipping exhibition equipment abroad and planning an overseas exhibition budget. It also runs event planning for private events and product launches, covering venue selection, transportation, audio-visual, run of show and budget planning. Its NEXT Lab team builds interactive engagements such as games and touch tables.

Owning part of your stand and renting the rest

If you attend several shows a year, you can see how Exhibit Concepts handles a mixed schedule in its case study for Kellanova (formerly Kellogg’s), a client for more than a decade. Kellanova already owned a lot of booth property, so the team proposed a modular booth that pairs client-owned components with rental pieces as needed, which the company says made the programme more affordable. The same kit is reconfigured for shows as different as the School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference, the National Restaurant Association Show and the Sweets and Snacks Expo.

For Nestlé Purina it designed and built a new custom modular 30 x 60 ft booth, and its NEXT Lab team added an interactive light display and a trivia game with live scores. Other trade show work in its portfolio includes exhibits for Mazak, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, World Fuel Services, Regal, Omron and Homz.

Supplier diversity, certifications and recognition

If your company buys from diverse suppliers, Exhibit Concepts is certified by the Woman-owned Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and describes itself as one of the largest WBENC-certified organisations in the industry. It has also achieved EDPA RFP Certification, and Event Marketer magazine named it a Best Place to Work in Events.

Offices and wider work

You can deal with its headquarters near Dayton or its Chicago-area office in Elgin, Illinois, which is handy if you exhibit at McCormick Place. Besides trade shows, the company builds museum galleries, visitor centres, corporate interiors and mobile vehicle tours, and its museum clients include the Computer History Museum and the National Museum of Pacific War. More firms are listed under stand builders in the USA, including Derse, Ion Exhibits and STAR.

Source: exhibitconcepts.com/about-us, exhibitconcepts.com/trade-shows-events, exhibitconcepts.com/capabilities, exhibitconcepts.com/case-study-kelloggs-away-from-home