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manic
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manic
   Old Thread  #24 27 Nov 2024 at 5.20pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #17
Where is the misinformation?
All i said was that if you are a small company you cant get a look in because of the exclusivity
aggrements that you have with your stall holders. I understand why you have these but its not fair on the the smaller start up that are trying to get a foot in the door. It also means that punters wont necessarily get the best deal or the best product!
Fivenil
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Fivenil
   Old Thread  #23 26 Nov 2024 at 6.54pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #22
When do tickets go sale as it crashes out every time I look?
roleymoley
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roleymoley
   Old Thread  #22 26 Nov 2024 at 3.15pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #21
To reply to the last few questions;

Traffic last year was chaos,due to being hit by 100mph wind gusts which caused us structural damage and meant delaying the show by a week, this meant the market wasn't obligated to be closed as they are for our scheduled date. Thus we had traffic for both events and lost one access point. The market is scheduled to be closed on our show date, so we don't anticipate any traffic issues, as was the case on the Sunday of last year- market is Saturday only.

FreeSpirit, Korda, Nash and Trakker will all have team members and rods from there ranges available to cast, get tuition, pick their brains, all for free. It would be worth contacting the brand in advance if you wish to try out a particular model, they will have all the popular models but maybe not the entire range.

Entry is advanced ticket only and we have sold out well in advance for the last shows.
AndyCarper82
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AndyCarper82
   Old Thread  #21 26 Nov 2024 at 10.00am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #17
I went to the Essex show last year and it was absolute chaos trying to get in, some people were stuck in queues all the way back to the motorway for hours.

What's been done to prevent a repeat of this in 2024?

vossy1
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vossy1
   Old Thread  #20 25 Nov 2024 at 5.07pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #19


Great post roley..Donny hey...might be tempted as long as there's no queue debacle like the NAS
Belch
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Belch
   Old Thread  #19 25 Nov 2024 at 2.44pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #17
Good response - haven't been to a large show since the halycon sandown days and may even make the trip; will you be able to test-cast Freespirit Rods or just Kaizens?

Other than brand staff - assume you will also be turning away / charging a premium to those dressed in camo . . .?
Fivenil
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Fivenil
   Old Thread  #18 25 Nov 2024 at 11.05am  0  Login    Register
Can you pay on the door or do you need to buy tickets?

Actually just checked their web page and you do need a ticket. Dont think they are on sale yet tho?
roleymoley
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roleymoley
   Old Thread  #17 24 Nov 2024 at 8.39pm  7  Login    Register
I run the Essex Carp Show and will add just this one comment to this thread.
There seems to be a fair degree of misinformation here, so here are some facts, direct from the horses mouth, so to speak and not Chinese whispers.
Our cheapest stand is £340+vat including shell scheme and lighting.
I will give just one example of why we honour exclusivity agreements with some exhibitors. Some years ago we had a koi pond designer approach us for a stand ( having never previously had any pond people approach us ), to display their glass fronted ponds. They wanted to do it properly and needed a largish stand to hold a pond which would weigh 7 tonnes, filled with water. We had to upgrade the flooring support, liaise with a specialist company to supply 7 tonnes of clean water, suitable for very valuable large koi. It was a fantastic success and great centre piece for the show, some of you may remember it. The following year we had 4 enquiries from pond companies wanting small stands, we turned all of them down, we will always protect our exhibitors investment so they can make a return at our show and I make no apology for that. Unfortunately the original company have not been able to exhibit for a couple of years but we hope to have them back.
This is what you get for your £14 entry+ ticket handlers fee.
A free film bundle from a host of subscription Carp media companies worth Approx £15 itself, this is emailed out to all ticket purchasers after the show.
6000 sq mtrs+ of carp brands, from the biggest players down to bespoke manufacturers, from the likes of 7 huge korda stands and their whole team, right down to the smaller unique companies like; Western Developments, Forgotten Flavours, Hadlow college and many many more. We have far more smaller stands than we do larger ones.
You can cast any rod in the range and get free tuition from the likes of Korda, FreeSpirit, Nash and Trakker with guidance from their team of anglers. Darrell Peck and Terry Edmonds were outside for Korda last year.
We have a free interactive area set aside for kids, where they have a go with a whip and get free gifts courtesy of companies, such as Korda, Cornz, Crafty Catcher and more.
5 quality slideshows on a huge 7mtr screen each day, this year we have; Freespirit, Korda, Ali Hamidi, Nash and Elliott Gray.
Weather permitting a huge outside Bivvy display.
Not only can you see the products in person, try them on or try them out but you can talk to the people who designed them and get a feel for the ethos behind each company.
Each and every exhibitor put in a massive amount of effort to showcase their products to you and each of them has a vested interest in giving you the very best deal they can, whether that be just a box of gas or a brand new product being launched at the show. We have a number of big product launches at the show from rods right down to end tackle.
If your interested in anything listed above, then its great value for a great day out in February. If not then no bother at all.
We are also launching our show at Doncaster Racecourse 5-6th April, which mirrors our long standing Essex show but for the North, so if the above sounds like a great day out and its to far, come and support the only show in the north.
Peace out.
kells
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kells
   Old Thread  #16 24 Nov 2024 at 3.41pm  1  Login    Register
Done a bit of Exhibition work myself building shell schemes in the past ( hard work, long hours ) So I know they don't come in cheap. But there must be a lot of money in Emp if there paying out anywhere near that kid of money..

I'm with 55's. I don't normally go to these shows to see the likes of Korda, Nash etc.. I can see all that down me local soulless tackle retailer on a trading estate somewhere. It's the smaller niche brands you cant see anywhere else I'm there for.

Long gone are the days of a trestle table and banner pinned to the wall of a hall somewhere it seems...
BlankasorusRex
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BlankasorusRex
   Old Thread  #15 24 Nov 2024 at 2.17pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #13
I worked as an exhibition stand designer years ago, before a change of career, they’ve definitely never been cheap to build even in my day and that was thirty plus years ago. I might have assumed wrongly but I thought they were saying they’d paid 25k for the floor space, not the complete stand design, construction and set up. I might have the wrong emf of the (throwing) stick.
55s
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55s
   Old Thread  #14 24 Nov 2024 at 1.16pm  0  Login    Register
The Essex show I always find far and away the best UK show and think Lee has done an amazing job of keeping his shows as close to real as possible. There will be stall holders at the show will less than £1k all in. They will be selling books, flavours or bobbins from old wallpaper tables. Lee knows he needs this kind of stall as well as the mega spend boys.

Nobody in their right mind would pay the entry fee to walk round a tackle megastore, and for me a couple of books and some niche bits of tackle or bait make the event worthwhile.

If you go there for NGT - or a couple of kilos of fake cell and a bucket of pellets, or to have a selfie with a Korda kid - then give it a miss.

An amazing amount of work for a very hard working and entertaining man - if this show were to go nothing Will fill the gap - and for someone who has loved the shows of the past he still manages to have the small guys in the mix.
Belch
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Belch
   Old Thread  #13 24 Nov 2024 at 12.49pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #11
£25k is peanuts for a professionally designed and built stand . . . I've worked on stands (admittedly not at small carp shows) with values well over £250k . . . .stands at the motor show for the major players (eg Ford) were well over £1M 20yrs ago . . !

Agree however you'd need to sell a lot of particles to recoup your £25k outlay; however remember its marketing so whilst you may not get an immediate ROI your customers remember your brand and will hopefully keep buying it over the next X yrs . . . .hence the value in the original investment.
essesxandy
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essesxandy
   Old Thread  #12 23 Nov 2024 at 7.41am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #9
I remember Graeme of Dymag telling me that his tiny stand at Sandown cost him £2300 for the weekend and that it was extra for every extra electrical socket. That was about twelve years ago.
BlankasorusRex
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BlankasorusRex
   Old Thread  #11 23 Nov 2024 at 6.58am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #9
That’s complete insanity. When I helped out a bit with Jag at Sandown and the northern show, their stand certainly wasn’t pokey, and from memory I think it was in the region of about 5k for the weekend. Which is still a good chunk of cash, once you factor in transport, hotels, food and drink and also it’s not like most of these companies just pick up all the stuff from the warehouse and dump it on a stand for a week, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to fore fill their normal shop/web orders. For months before they need to be producing additional stock to sell at the shows, so big additional capital outlay in materials up front as well. These shows aren’t cheap to attend for a manufacturer, so paying 25k just for the stand, either they know something I don’t, or they want their heads looking at.
Apps316
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Apps316
   Old Thread  #10 22 Nov 2024 at 10.33pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #9
I went a few years back (first time since the Dunstable days) never again... hated everything about it. We left after an hour and went to the pub.
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