‘We are grateful to the City of Indianapolis and the Indiana Convention Center for their efforts in ensuring a safe and successful event, as they have with many major events over the past few months including the NCAA tournament,’ said John Downs, ahead of this year's Sweets & Snacks Expo. 'As for 2022, we’ll be returning to Chicago,' he confirmed to this publication.
PRINTING United Expo announced it has been named a Gold 100 Grand Award winner in the category “Fastest-growing Gold 100 Show Managed by an Association” in 2019 by blended growth. The inaugural PRINTING United Expo was held in Dallas at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on October 23-25, 2019. Of those Gold 100 events on the Trade Show Executive list, there were more than 117,000 exhibiting companies which collectively represented almost 45M square feet of exhibitor space, with over a combined 3.5 million attendees.
PRINTING United Expo received a second honor by being named by the organizers to the class of the Fastest 50 rankings, of which PRINTING United Expo was named, which saw extreme growth. The shows that make up the Fastest 50 Class of 2019 grew exponentially compared to the TSE composite index for all the exhibitions held in 2019.
“I’m so proud of this team and what we accomplished,” said AEM’s Rozum , show director for The Utility Expo. “AEM is continuously working with its exhibitors and attendees to create best-in-class events in the industries they serve. This recognition is validation that we’re headed in the right direction . ” The Utility Expo, then known as ICUEE, was also recognized as: Largest Non-Annual Show of 2019 (by exhibit space)
Fastest - Growing Non-Annual Gold 100 Show of 2019 (by exhibit space – sheer numbers )
Fastest-Growing Show in Sheer Numbers in Net Square Feet in 2019 World of Asphalt Show & Conference was ultimately recognized as :
“We’re very proud of the success we experienced with World of Asphalt’s last in-person show in Indianapolis,” said Show Manager Brittany Weltcheff. “This, combined with the success of the World of Asphalt People, Plants & Paving Digital Conference held last month makes us all the more excited as we gear up for 2022 when we move to the Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn.”
World of Asphalt Show & Conference was ultimately recognized as:
#21 in Percentage of Growth in Total Attendance
#34 in Percentage of Growth in Number of Exhibiting Companies
#96 in Percentage of Growth in Net Square Feet
The 2021 show, originally planned for the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, was converted into an all-digital conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and asphalt paving professionals can still access the education content, and professional development hours, on-demand at WorldOfAsphalt.com.