Emerald has acquired EDspaces, the education industry’s leading conference and exhibit marketplace focused on the future of learning environments. A product of the Education Market Association (EDmarket), EDspaces explores how the convergence of technology, space, and pedagogy serves to impact learning and student outcomes in educational settings.
“EDspaces is a great addition to our portfolio,” says Gannon Brousseau, executive vice president, the Design Group, Emerald.“EDspaces provides significant synergistic opportunities with our current brands, and strategic cross-brand initiatives to benefit the architecture, interior design, manufacturer, and end-user communities.” EDspaces joins the Design Group at Emerald, leveraging Emerald’s significant resources, expertise, and network to serve and ultimately grow and innovate a key sector of commercial design. The EDmarket team will remain integral to content development, and will work closely with Emerald’s EDspaces team.
Emerald acquires EDspaces tradeshow and conference
Global event organiser and B2B platform Emerald has acquired EDspace, the annual tradeshow and conference run by trade organisation for the educational products marketplace, Education Market Association (EDmarket)
Founded in 1916, the EmA, which now has 400 members, promotes a market for quality educational products and services that are produced and delivered by professional suppliers and dealers.
“The Education Market Association built EDspaces over the past 25 years into a major industry tradeshow with more than 600 booth units along with a strong conference programme of 50 individual sessions. This event is a great addition to the existing Emerald portfolio of design industry related events that will strengthen their presence in this growing sector,” said Nick Curci, president of Corporate Solutions, Connecticut, the exclusive advisor to EDmarket in structuring and negotiating the transaction, which was closed on 21