Exhibition Stands

This is hard to answer before we know the venue, size of stand and the complexity of design. The quickest and best way to determine a fixed price is to create a free design proposal. This gives us a design and structure, upon which we can provide a firm and accurate quotation. Historically most of our exhibition stand projects fall somewhere between £5,000 to £19,000. This includes design, manufacture, project management and installation within Europe or the United Kingdom. Larger stands, or multiple stands will of course cost more. Very importantly, our stands are extremely modular and reusable, so re-installation costs are dramatically reduced. As a rule of thumb, re-installation costs are likely to be between 25% to 35% of the origional stand cost.

By far the most popular plan we have is Free2hire™, which around 80% of our clients choose. These are rental exhibition stand projects, but with a difference. You pay nothing for the hire of the exhibition stand structure. You do pay for your exhibition graphics, management, transport and installation. So while the service isn’t ‘free’ it does reduce your costs significantly. Free2hire™ is also very flexible. There are no contract to sign, you can use it once, or twice, or for a whole series of events and shows. We store your graphics free of charge and you can reconfigure your stand, or scale up or down, with no extra hardware cost.

Our exhibition stands are also very easy to self-build. In fact the Prestige Events System was origionally conceived as a self-build exhibition system. So approximately 20% of our clients self manage and self build their exhibition stand with our support and help.

99.99% of exhibition design and build contractors can’t pre-build and check your exhibition stand. This is a fact and it’s because their production method or solution is too slow and cumbersome to build, or they lack the will, expertise and facilities to pre-build. We also know that some of our competitors mislead potential clients into believing that they pre-build, when in fact they do not.

So with our competitors the first time your stand comes together, fully-built, is in the exhibition hall – a day or so before the show opens. If anything is wrong, there is simply no time to put it right.

A cast-iron rule at Quadrant2Design is that every single exhibition stand we create, is 100% pre-built in our premises, generally weeks before the ‘real build’ at your show or event. And by ‘100%’ we mean just that. Every single element of your stand is built – exactly as it will be when you arrive in the exhibition hall and take possession of your new stand. This 100% pre-build allows us to carefully inspect every element, graphic and detail of your exhibition stand. If something is not right or up to standard, we fix it. And yes, you are positively encouraged to visit the pre-build!

YES! In fact some of our most satisfying work is done for clients who have bought shell-scheme space but want to project a much more professional look. Quite often we will negotiate with the Show Organisers (with your permission) to take down the unsightly fascia and ceiling, allowing us to create taller, more imposing branding features. So if you have booked shell-scheme but want an impressive bespoke-designed look, please ask us for a free design proposal.

Please remember that because your stand is modular, you’re not stuck with shell-scheme booths forever. With our help you can easily reconfigure your stand to fit smaller or larger space, within space-only or shell-scheme sites,

If you have a big budget and you work with a really great contractor, there is no doubt you can get some fantastic results with custom built stands.

But for average (or normal) budgets we believe better results can be achieved with stands designed and built in our Prestige Event System. Certainly our Prestige stands are more vibrant and visually inventive.

This is because most of the cost of a custom-built stand is in the heavy, timber based structure. The last thing your custom build contractor wants is lots of graphics on your stand – it puts his costs up and make his stand expensive. That’s why you see so many boring white custom built stands.

Whereas your Prestige stand is always covered in full-colour vibrant graphics, conveying your marketing message and branding. We call it the ‘100% Graphic Look’. We even extend your graphics onto the floor using our unique Photo-Floor™ product

Custom built stands are also bad for the environment and bad for your environmental reputation. They are manufactured from MDF, acrylics, paints, solvents and laminates that are generally used only once and then trashed, ending up in landfill. A truly shocking waste of materials.

Prestige stands by contrast, are modular, scalable and reusable. You can use your stand and graphics any number of times, reconfiguring (with our help) for different stand space at your future events and shows.