At this year’s American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) event, our exhibition management team transformed a 24,565 sq. ft. hotel ballroom into an experience.
We used over 15,000 lbs of materials for the show. Handling was mainly done through placing the materials on pallet jacks and transporting them via forklifts.
In preparing to create the miniature soccer field inside the exhibit hall, our team laid 5,000 feet of Visqueen material to cover and protect the flooring and carpet.

The American Youth Soccer Association holds tri-section meetings regularly throughout the year. Their first section meeting in 2012 was held at the Marriot Hotel in Anaheim, CA.
As a relatively small show with only 45 exhibitors, the AYSO event required design elements that were both visually pleasing as well as cost-effective. This 9 x ½ meter entrance unit was made from foamcore and served to set a grand tone for the small yet important show.
The floor was divided into several parts—the exhibit hall itself, multiple rooms for breakout sessions and a reception hall in the lobby. AYSO also hosted a silent auction featuring the items on the high tables throughout the event.
SCORE, the official uniform provider for AYSO, had a 50 x 40 feet booth featuring apparel, breakout tables and video stations promoting their latest gear.
As a unique addition to the exhibit hall, a 50 x 100 feet miniature soccer field was constructed. Coaches and show personnel hosted engaging attendee activities on the field throughout the day.
Successfully servicing more than 45 exhibitors during the three-day event, GES and AYSO started off 2012 with a great show.

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Exhibitions

GES is your full-service partner qualified to handle every detail of your show. What’s more, we promise to complete your project on time and right the first time.
Plan

Floorplan Design
Our convention planning department is staffed with experts who are familiar with every convention facility and can prepare floor plan designs that adhere to local fire regulations and rules. With years of experience at each venue, our team will provide expert advice on optimal traffic flow and feature layout.

Attendee Engagement Zones
Our team can create your total show environment complete with a strategy to engage your audience. From an intuitive registration area to interactive cyber cafes, GES will help you come up with a comprehensive plan—including concepts, theming, production and installation—to immerse your attendees.

GES AdvantageSM
For exhibitors who may not have a booth ready to go for your exhibition, or for a consistent look and feel to the exhibit hall, we offer turnkey exhibit rental packages tailored to the unique needs of your exhibitors or your event.

Exhibitor Services
GES offers an impressive array of products and services to help your exhibitors achieve their best results at your show. Click here to view the many ways we can help your exhibitors.

Exhibitor Staff Training
GES offers a proven methodology for booth staff training. We offer web-based training programs before shows, on-site deep-dive immersion training on the show floor—and also a “rapid release” training regimen focused on giving the most amount of training in the least amount of time. No matter where we’re training, we translate objectives into messages that are easy for staff to remember.

Design

Custom Display and Rental Booth Solutions
GES is the industry’s leading designer and fabricator of custom display and rental exhibits. We can offer your exhibitors access to one of the world’s largest creative departments to translate their business objectives into a custom design solution that fits their timeline and event budget.

Booth Graphics and Banner Production
GES provides extensive graphics services, from price and turnaround times to shipments and changes. Our team of 85 graphics coordinators works across four fulfillment hubs and nine satellite centers to produce more than four million square feet of graphics annually. We offer a variety of trade show materials and the most advanced printing technologies to ensure that your graphics will look their best and be delivered on-time (usually within 24 hours) and on-budget.

Exhibition Design
GES creates exhibit experiences that draw guests in, connect them to the exhibitor’s brand and leave them wanting more. We’re proud to have one of the world’s largest and most talented creative departments at your disposal. Our creative team uses a proven process to translate your exhibitor’s objectives into a design solution that comprises everything from the look and feel of your exhibit to its layout and architecture.

Interactive Technology
Leveraging a variety of technologies can turn exhibits into a more interactive environment, enabling you to attract more guests, collect more information, generate more leads and enjoy a more measurable program. From augmented reality and media walls, microsites and virtual exhibit extensions, interactive walls and RFID, GES is the one-stop technology resource.

Exhibit Fabrication
With fabrication facilities located around the world, GES can provide exhibitors with exactly the services they need. Our Lean Six Sigma-based practices ensure an exhibit that is both effective and efficient.

Trade Show Carpet and Flooring
Whether you need eco-friendly carpet, extra thick padding or a custom-designed carpet inlay, GES has the trade show flooring inventory you need, when you need it. You and your exhibitors can work with your GES representative on exhibition flooring solutions or simply log into GES Online, peruse our flooring options and order—all from your desktop.

Exhibition Furniture
GES is your turnkey, full-service event furnishings provider, offering you and your exhibitors a wide selection of tables, chairs, couches, counters, kiosks and accessories. From ultra-mod to ultra-simple, cherry red to patent leather, you’ll always look your best. Work with your GES representative or log into GES Online to peruse our exhibition furniture options and place your order.

Green Exhibition Options
Environmental responsibility is a priority for GES. In fact, through our partnership with Liberty Recycling, every month we have recycled, reused or repurposed over 56% of all our waste from our Las Vegas facility as well as shows we produce at the LVCC. We’re proud to extend our sustainability options to your exhibitions.

  • Eco-Friendly Carpet: We offer aisle carpet options that are 100% recyclable and made from 25% post industrial recycled content. The padding is produced with 100% recycled fibers.
  • Exhibitor Carpet Options: Our carpet options are also 100% recyclable plush and ultra plush.
  • Visqueen: To protect carpet during move in, we use 100% recyclable visqueen made from 50% recycled content.
  • Trash Cans for your Exhibition: Biodegradable liners and wastebaskets are recyclable.
  • Environmentally Friendly Table Tops and Skirts: Made from recyclable material.
  • Sustainable Graphic Substrates: From biodegradable show cards to LEED compliant fiberboard and low VOC banners, GES offers a range of REI (Reduced Environmental Impact) materials to support your exhibition.
  • Our team is well-versed in sustainability best-practices and we can help you create a more environmentally friendly exhibition program.

Event Audio Visual
Looking for an Oscar-caliber audio visual resource for your show? GES has partnered with the company that produces the Oscars to provide world class audio visual design and production for exhibitions and events. Our longstanding partnership with PRG provides our clients with access to more than 1,400 employees on five continents and over $500 million of cutting-edge audio visual equipment. Our dedicated team approach ensures that your AV production is seamlessly integrated into your total show experience.

Build

Show Installation and Dismantle
GES offers superior, qualified labor to exhibitors and exhibition organizers via our in-house installation and dismantle division,

expoServicesSM
You and your exhibitors benefit from the experience of our full-time team of labor relations experts, who negotiate the best contracts and labor agreements nationwide

Event Rigging
Rigging, or sign hanging, is one of the most important components of your exhibition and GES is nationally recognized for its leadership in rigging competency. We employ riggers who are certified by the Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) and place them strategically throughout the country. Our rigging team coordinates and plans the installation of truss, lighting, signage and other hanging elements. And our intimate knowledge of convention facilities and their many requirements ensures that your trade show installation will be efficient, professional and safe.

Exhibition Electrical
GES provides power distribution for exhibitors and exhibition organizers at trade shows and special events, as well as temporary installations at outdoor venues. We manufacture and operate our own equipment, and our staff of expert electricians ensures the highest quality and safest power delivery.

Exhibition Material Handling
Our extensive network of warehouse facilities and logistics support ensures that your event materials will move safely and efficiently whether sent in advance for storage or directly to the show site. Our team has the equipment and expertise to unload and receive your materials, deliver them to their assigned areas, store empty containers and return and load them out at show close. Whether you’re shipping heavy machinery or delicate produce, you can rest assured that GES will handle your exhibition materials with care.

Manage

GES Logistics Management
GES’s international and domestic logistics experts have taken the mystery out of shipping. When you work with GES, you and your exhibitors will benefit from a single partner who can handle all shipping and customs services from your door to the show and back. Since 2008, we have managed more than 4,000 international shipments for all kinds of products and all kinds of shows. We are part of a worldwide network of customs brokerage and freight-forwarding companies that spans 60 countries, ensuring you and your customers are dealing with experienced logistics professionals, no matter where your materials are headed. And, because the GES team manages your onsite material handling, we have control over the entire shipping and logistics process, which creates total accountability and eliminates the risks of dealing with multiple vendors.

GES Show on the GoSM Phone Application
GES gives attendees and exhibitors access to all essential information about your show in the palm of their hand. Available on all models of smart phones, Show-on-the-Go is a mobile one-stop-shop for information about exhibitors and their products, the show floor, schedules and speakers, service providers, the venue, and the city. Getting access to all the information needed at show couldn’t be easier!

Measure

Measurement is the fuel that every good marketing strategy lives on, and we have a proven methodology for helping you, your exhibitors and sponsors improve performance at your exhibition.

Show Collateral on Demand
GES can “digitize and automate” your collateral. When attendees request information, our high-tech solutions automatically email the appropriate information. We can also load your materials on USB devices so you can distribute them at the show. It’s slick, easy—and eco-friendly.

Lead Qualification
We will help your exhibitors create a strategy for collecting and qualifying leads. Using data-collection and information analysis, we’ll ensure the leads your exhibitors distribute to their sales teams are high-quality prospects.

Attendee Surveys
Taking the temperature of your attendees is critical for proving and improving performance. GES helps you connect with your attendees by using on-site and post-show surveys, at-show focus groups and more. There’s no need to wait until a show ends to ask your attendees about their experience—we can ask them for you while their opinions are still fresh.

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Our unique video measurement solution allows you to monitor attendee traffic patterns, exhibit hall flow, exhibit design and attendee behavior. We accomplish this by installing small cameras around booths or across the show floor. Our expert analysis team extracts powerful insights about your show and selected exhibitor areas, including what’s working and in some cases, where improvement is needed. We can help you identify “hot” and “cold” areas and minimize “dead” space to improve traffic flow, maximize daily show performance, enhance the overall experience and increase ROI.

Ongoing CRM
If lead-generation is your primary objective, our “lead agents” can make connecting events to your data pipeline a breeze. We’ll create your data strategy, as well as help you collect data at the show and segment it for your CRM system. We can even create a bridge from the show organizer that automatically feeds badge data in to your database.

Market

Brand Planning

We’ll help you build an experiential marketing channel that stands alone or works in concert with your other marketing initiatives.

Exhibition Messaging and Theming
Our storytellers are now your storytellers. Theme your show or let us help you communicate your message at the show.

Strategic Exhibition Planning
From email marketing to web sites, ads and direct mail to on-site show materials, GES’s marketing experts can activate every touch point to get your message across.

Multimedia Design and Scriptwriting
Creating your show message is important. Delivering it effectively is essential. GES will help you communicate to your key constituents, from writing scripts to creating the multimedia that plays on your video walls or website.

Customized Event Collateral
Let our award-winning designers and copywriters create your collateral. From brochures and sell sheets, product information and service agreements, GES can design and distribute collateral in print and online.

Email and Direct Mail
GES can design and deploy direct marketing campaigns that drive exhibitors and attendees to the show and follow up with them after.

Social Media and Web 2.0
Let our social media team help you leverage social sites and even your own microsites to communicate with customers and prospects, and extend your live engagements online.

Interactive Technology
The world of live experiences is going high-tech, and GES can plug you into it all. Leveraging a variety of technologies can turn your show into a more interactive environment, attract more guests, collect more information, generate more leads and enjoy a more measurable program. From augmented reality and media walls, microsites and virtual exhibit extensions, interactive walls and RFID, GES is your one-stop technology resource.

Event Advertising/Sponsorships
Our creative group can help design and place your print and online ads. We can also create an activation plan for your show sponsorships.