Exhibitors At Modern Marketing Expo Report Quality Visitors

The Modern Marketing Expo, held from 8-10 September at Gallagher Convention Centre, attracted 5345 visitors from 24 countries including 14 countries in Africa.

The top 10 countries with visitors outside of South Africa included: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, DRC and Kenya.

Visitors could see new products and business opportunities in the following:

– Branding, advertising and media.
– Promotional products and branded apparel.
– AI design and content technologies.
– Marketing technology.
– Signage, displays and visual communications.
– Print and production technologies.
– Digital experience and engagement.
– Retail and shopper marketing.

Exhibitors had positive feedback about the event:

‘All in all I think it was quite a good show. We saw a lot of people that had never seen our products before and then we saw some of our regular clients that want to go ahead with our training school,’ said Darryl Curtis, Cover Styl’ South Africa.

‘The visitors were great and the client base was exceptional. It was really worthwhile being at the show,’ said David Deere, DG.

‘The calibre of the client was a lot better this year. There were people here that are really looking to add to their armoury and get into the business,’ said Darryl Braithwaite, Midcomp.

‘It was very busy and we had a lot of visitors at our stand. Some customers came from far to see us, like Botswana,’ said Nardus Mouton, Gencotech.

‘The show good, very well arranged and organised. We got a couple of good leads. For the three days we were quite busy,’ said Ashok Jain, Allrich.

‘The amount of quality customers that came thorough made the expo really worth it,’ said Trevor Norman, Stixo.

‘We have had a lot of action around our stand. We had a lot of new customers come see us and as well as our existing customers that needed new machines and to upgrade their facilities. It was not just local visitors that were here, lots of people came from places like Durban and Zimbabwe. It was a successful show,’ said Adam Querido, GSW.

‘The quality of the visitors were good. We had a lot of cross-border visitors from Mozambique and Zimbabwe. We also had a lot of our existing customers come back to us and see what is new and what we’re launching,’ said Charmaine Poulter, Rexx Screen and Digital Supplies.

‘The visitors were high-quality, and we saw a lot of new faces,’ said Francois Badenhorst-Rossouw, Kolok Graphic Supplies.

Judges visited each stand at the expo and judged the stands according to criteria based on design, staff friendliness and professionalism. The results are as follows:

Modern Marketing Small Shell Scheme:

Winner: Headwear 24
Second: Stegmanns
Third: Luggage Warehouse

Modern Marketing Small Custom Stand:

Winner: Cover Styl’
Second: Woodline Branding Solutions

Modern Marketing Medium Custom Stand:

Winner: King Caps
Second: Sky Technologies
Third: Caps SA

Modern Marketing Custom Stand: National Flag:

Winner: National Flag
Second: Curv

Sign Africa Small Shell Scheme:

Winner: Vic Bay/One Off
Second: 1-Stop T-Shirt Supplies
Third: JG Electronics

Sign Africa Small Custom Stand:

Winner: LBY Africa
Second: Signbox
Third: Sign Assist

Sign Africa Medium Shell Scheme:

Winner: Graficomp
Second: Oricore
Third: Trigold Printlab

Sign Africa Medium Custom Stand:

Winner:3A Composites
Second: Polyvantis
Third: Build Volume

Sign Africa Large Shell Scheme:

Winner: Gencotech
Second: NSDS

Sign Africa Large Custom Stand:

Winner: Eco Signage Supplies
Second: Kolok Graphic Supplies
Third: Maizey Plastics

Sign Africa Mega Custom Stand:

Tie Winner: Sign-Tronic / Stixo
Second: Roland DG
Third: Intamarket

Africa Print Small Shell Scheme:

Winner: Trotec
Second: ZSK
Third: Servochem

Africa Print Small Custom Stand:

Winner: Portamex
Second Big 5
Third: Media Frenzy

Africa Print Medium Custom Stand:

Winner: Fellowes Beswick
Second: Stuart and Marks

Africa Print Large Custom Stand:

Winner: Canon
Second: Visual Communication Supplies
Tied Third: Titan-Jet / Rexx Screen and Digital Supplies

Africa Print Mega Custom Stand:

Winner: Midcomp
Second: Fortune
Third: GSW

SIGN AFRICA EXPO
+27 11 568 1894
www.signafricaexpo.com