UKL Trade Show - A Resounding Success!

Thursday 17th January 2008 saw the team from UKL open the doors of their Swindon headquarters to their very first Trade Show event.

From the moment the first customer set foot inside it felt a success, and over the two days in excess of 600 people attended.

The ground floor of the building had been divided into two substantial showrooms. The showrooms were dedicated to the forty-three brands UKL now carry. In addition, a fresh space had been opened creating an environment for MHM, GS UK and Xpress to demonstrate their machinery. With all that hard grind going on the area was complimented by a large bar.

Travelling up the stairs you were led to another two exhibition spaces. At the end of one of these halls was complimentary cafe and banks of LCD screens demonstrating UKL's brand new Weblinks as well as the new loyalty and reward scheme www.uklxtra.co.uk and where some examples of the types of rewards available were on display. In addition there were stands from Senator Pens and BPMA to name but a few. The opposing hall was given over to further stands where Magic Touch demonstrated their WOW Transfer Technology and where freshly released Cool Active show-cased their range of technical sportswear. The remaining space was dedicated to a twice daily 40-minute fashion show, that really seemed to draw the crowds.

The Thursday evening also saw UKL come together with its suppliers and many of its customers at grand Gala Dinner, with live music and dancing until the small hours.

Customer quotes:

"The fashion show was fun and stylish, the stands were a huge benefit for myself not having been in the industry too long to talk about products. The promotional stands will also add further to my business and I am sure I will be purchasing some additional machinery!! Once again many congratulations on such a professional Trade Show, I hope you repeat the exercise next year."

Exhibitor Quotes:

"A very good event, well organised and extremely worthwhile attending; an excellent calibre of clientele."

"A great event and the perfect venue for us to launch Coolactive within the UK. We are very much looking forward to returning next year!"