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News Release from: Electronic Distribution Show Corporation
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 August 2006
Distribution show promises improvements
for 2007
The 2007 Electronic Distribution Show and Conference will be an even better venue for networking and relationship building than its well-received predecessor.
The 2007 Electronic Distribution Show and Conference will be an even better venue for networking and relationship building than its well-received predecessor EDS 2006, promises new Show Corporation President Carla Mahrt of Tyco Electronics Power Components The annual gathering of the worldwide electronic distribution community will officially open for business at the Paris/Bally's hotel complex in Las Vegas at 0900 on Tuesday morning 15th May 2007, and exhibits will continue until 1230 on Thursday 17th May
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Serving the entire global electronics sales and distribution community (some 10% of 2006 delegates came from outside the USA), EDS 2007 has been designed to bring added value to all participants, regardless of size, geographical reach or niche.
All this will happen without any escalation in fees, Mahrt says: "The board has held the line on all costs within its control".
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New features being introduced for EDS 2007 include free admission badges for distributors who are specifically sponsored by their suppliers, an Internet cafe in the exhibit hall and free wireless Internet access in the exhibit hall foyer, and the availability of large meeting rooms in 2-hour time slots for sessions too large to be accommodated in exhibitor suites or conference units.
A key responsibility of the EDS board is trend-spotting, and a growing phenomenon noted by the EDS Board at its summer meeting is the growing tendency on the exhibit floor for companies to become more appointment-oriented, following the pattern established long ago by suite participants.
One demonstration of this is the trend for booth occupants to move to Euro-suites, thus combining their product display with an adjacent conference space.
With many of the conventional booths occupied by first-time participants, EDS, in co-operation with show sponsor ECA, will make a concerted effort to educate newcomers that EDS is not a traffic-driven bazaar but a highly focused appointment-centred opportunity for establishing and renewing strategic relationships.
Also noted by the board is an important emerging dimension to EDS - no longer is it two events in one, but it's now morphing into three in one: a product and display-oriented trade show on the floor; a venue for private meetings between manufacturers and distributors in upstairs suites; and a place for manufacturers, especially industry newcomers, to recruit reps and for established manufacturer companies to give meetings with current reps priority over distributor appointments.
(Many of the newcomers over the last few years have switched their EDS focus from rep recruitment to distributor recruitment after putting their rep networks in place).
About 100 companies have already enrolled as exhibitors in EDS through the Show Corporation's early sign-up programme during the 2006 show, and Gerald M Newman, EDS Executive Vice-President, predicts that well over 300 more will enlist between the mailing of invitational brochures in mid-October and show time.
Exhibitor participation at EDS 2006 was 5% ahead of the previous year, and Newman says that, given a stable economy, the growth trend should continue.
Total participation at EDS 2006 was 5000 people from 1500 companies - manufacturers, distributors, representatives, media, analysts etc.
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