Trade Shows
10 Minutes With… Gabe Weiss, Head of Marketing at Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas
In a sea of bulldozers and excavators digging for attention, it’s not often that a heavy equipment brand would bank on helping construction pros find their Zen. But that was exactly the approach that Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas took for its 30,000-square-foot booth at the recent CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026. Built around the theme “Connecting Harmony to...
Field Report: Video Game Developers and Tech Brands Level Up Demos at PAX East
In 2004, the creators of the popular web comic Penny Arcade launched PAX to bring together the gaming community and celebrate game culture. After years of growth, PAX expanded from Washington to several cities around the world, and PAX East was established in 2010 as the event’s East Coast branch. We headed up to Boston...
Event Profs Weigh in on the Biggest EuroShop 2026 Trends
From a flipped mountain to a fruit Eiffel Tower to floating carts, EuroShop once again lived up to its claim as the “Global Retail Festival,” welcoming more than 81,000 visitors from 141 countries and 1,840 exhibitors representing 61 nations from Feb. 18-22, in Düsseldorf, Germany. Held every three years, the trade show has become a...
Exhibit Design and Sampling Ideas from the Natural Products Expo West Show
If your soda doesn’t pack protein and your gummies, creatine, you need to up your snacking game. Protein-fortified everything, products with fewer ingredients, and women’s health products dominated the aisles at the Natural Products Expo 2026, which brought about 60,000 attendees from health and nutrition communities to the Anaheim Convention Center, March 3-6. Consumers are in...