With buyers from over 90 countries and tens of thousands of professionals converging on McCormick Place from the material handling & logistics industry, you want to keep your trade show display preparation on target for the January event, streamlining the details of your trade show marketing and focusing on becoming a leader within the industry.

Tradetec Skyline is a local Chicago Trade Show Display Dealer,  our trade show service team will help oversee all your trade show service details & logistics for a successful experience at Promat 2009.

Teaming up with Trade Show I&D Providers, a comprehensive understanding of trade show rules & regulations and extensive knowledge of the Chicago Convention Centers coupled with online trade show software and 24/7 access to all your trade show properties, inventory, leads &  booth staff schedules you can rest assured that the details of your trade show will be handled flawlessly, leaving your marketing & sales team more time to focus on qualifying viable leads, networking, product demonstrations and positioning your company among the leaders of the Material Handling Industry.

There are several factors that need to be addressed to make for a flawless and streamlined exhibiting experience:

Trade Show Labor
Furnishing & Carpeting
Material Handling
Graphics & Exhibit Design
Exhibit & Event Rigging
Cleaning Services
Transportation & Freight
Show Books
Exhibit Fabrication & Management

Trade Show Services can be baffling to new and experienced exhibitors alike, with many hours going into a project only to find out one or more of the small details of your trade show services were overlooked. A Professional Trade Show Service Team that works with exhibit halls, shipping firms, and designers on a daily basis, can offer your company a support system that will work together to solve any issues before, during and after your trade shows. Giving to you innovative solutions that will create valuable results to your bottom line.

The exhibit design, fabrication and logistics is an investment that requires proper planning. Often times exhibitors can loose focus on the details of trade show services, investing time & money in chasing down details and/or issues, trying to find the right person that can help them with an answer. With an online trade show service management program you get quick access to:

· Save time by quickly tapping into all event-related information

· Access and share marketing objectives and goals

· Organize trade show schedules, graphics, properties, and records in real-time

· Meet a multitude of deadlines

· Collaborate with team members 24/7 from the show floor, office, or on the road

· Access historical information on events including layout, costs, and show details

· Jump-start new employees by providing work flow based event information

· Manage the total cost of an event through Budgets and Expenses

· Create and access surveys for pre-show and post-show reports

· Access staff profiles and itineraries

· Determine ROI and maintain leads

Many exhibitors are attending more shows annually, and need to have their exhibit properties sent from show to show, tracking efforts can add hours onto an exhibitors day. With trained project managers, an online event management program can eliminate any confusion and will allow your team daily reports of exhibiting schedules and asset management reports.

Your approach to trade show services can be identified easily with a trained trade show service manager, our approach begins with identifying what it will take for clients to successfully meet their trade show goals.

A Service Team with trade show knowledge should come from years of experience from designing, manufacturing and managing exhibits. With marketing & technical expertise on the trade show floor, making sure the process runs smoothly from the beginning of the trade show, right down to the inspection of your exhibit properties when they come back to the storage facility. Keeping track of items that need to be restored or re-furbished for your next trade show.

Whether your exhibiting in a 10’ x 20′ trade show display, 20’ x 20′ trade show display rental or even a 40’ x 40′ trade show exhibit, you will see the creativity and innovative solutions that a full trade show service team can bring to your experience on the trade show floor.

As you begin the process of exhibiting at trade shows and find yourself looking for advice on your trade show program, contact a dedicated service team. It all begins and ends with the “statement & impact” that you would like to make when the doors open at the convention center.

Whether your trade show is in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, Orlando, or even an International Trade Show venue – a dedicated trade show service team is invaluable at creating the results with ease.

There are many questions that exhibitors may have after they have signed the contract for exhibit space. Defining your goals with a full service marketing partner & exhibit house will help you be more successful with your exhibiting decisions.

The details of Trade Show Services that are provided by a Trade Show Service Team can free up valuable for your company to focus on other marketing objectives. Qualified Service Teams will plan for securing and storing all your exhibit properties, pre-staging and post inspection of properties with photos. They will coordinate installation & dismantling, complete show books and pre-pay bills – allowing you to pay one bill per show.

With the ability to repair and refurbish your existing exhibit if needed for your next trade show, with all major brands of trade show displays, exhibits and accessories, eliminating the worry that your exhibit will not be in award winning shape on your next installation.

With the guidance of qualified professionals, the rules and regulations for each trade show venue and convention hall are researched and inspected so that your exhibit is in compliance, no matter what trade show floor it is installed on.

When the loading dock doors open you can rest comfortably that your exhibit and trade show program will easily fall into place, our executable on-line trade show management deals in real world logistics.

Deen’s presentation, “Paula Deen & The Charmed Consumer,” will begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom/S100 of the South Building. The program is open to all Show attendees; no ticket or reservations are needed.

A former housewife from Albany, Ga., with no formal food training, Deen stars in two eponymous shows on the Food Network: “Paula’s Home Cooking,” which airs seven days a week and “Paula’s Party,” which airs on Friday nights. She is the author of six cookbooks and a memoir, “Paula Deen—It’ Ain’t All About the Cookin’,” which debuted in the top 10 on the New York Times bestseller list in spring 2007. In addition, her magazine, Cooking with Paula Deen, has a circulation of more than one million, and in June 2007, she received two Daytime Emmy awards, the first for Outstanding Lifestyle Host, and the second for Outstanding Lifestyle Show.

Living with agoraphobia (the fear of being in public places) for 20 years and a crumbling marriage, Paula Deen was left with two growing sons and no source of income. Without a college education, the then 42-year-old housewife reached deep into her Southern roots and drew inspiration from what she knew best—her kitchen stove. Her culinary career began in her kitchen in June 1989 with The Bag Lady, a home-based lunch delivery service featuring chicken salad sandwiches and warm, fresh cookies wrapped in grocery store plastic wrap. Her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen, served as delivery boys to sell to local businesses. Within two years, the business outgrew her home and Deen opened her first restaurant on Savannah, Ga.’s southside, called The Lady. Five years later, Deen re-located to downtown Savannah and opened The Lady & Sons, which to this day serves thousands of visitors, including celebrity and political clientele.

In 1997, Deen self-published her first cookbook, Favorite Recipes of The Lady and her Friends. After it was picked up by a major publishing house, the name was changed to The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook and Deen began selling the cookbook on QVC. Her career seemed to have no limits after QVC, and the rest is history.

The 2008 International Home + Housewares Show will feature more than 2,000 exhibitors in four Show expos: Dine + Design; Clean + Contain, including Promotion in Motion; Wired + Well; and Global Crossroads, the international pavilions. More than 60,000 total attendees from 104 countries around the world are expected. To register for the Show or for information on exhibiting, please visit www.housewares.org.

IHA is the 69-year-old voice of the housewares industry, which accounted for (US$)$283 billion at retail worldwide in 2004. The non-profit, full-service association sponsors the world’s premier housewares products exposition, the International Home & Housewares Show, and offers its 1,700 member companies a wide range of trade show services, including industry and government advocacy, export assistance, State-of-the-Industry reports, point-of-sale and consumer purchase data through Housewares MarketWatch, executive management peer groups, a unique Web-based community at www.housewares.org and group buying discounts on business solutions services.