22.09.2015 - Promising results
After a sharp increase in the first quarter, the performance of the business-to-business exhibition industry in North America, as measured by the CEIR Total Index, remained relatively strong during the second quarter of 2015, posting a year-on-year gain of 3.8%. This growth is the second highest rate since the second quarter of 2007 and marks the 20th consecutive quarter of year-on-year growth. Over the three years through 2014, exhibition industry growth generally lagged the pace of GDP, but the industry has now outperformed the macroeconomy for two quarters straight by a wide margin. “The second-quarter results are very promising. They show that the exhibition industry is on a solid position for robust growth this year,” says CEIR economist Allen Shaw, Ph.D., chief economist for Global Economic Consulting Associates, Inc. All four exhibition metrics in the second quarter posted year-on-year gains. The strongest metric was real revenues, which rose an impressive 6.1%, followed by net square feet with an increase of 3.6%. Professional attendance rose 3.1%, whereas exhibitors increased 2.6%. (ank)
Quelle: Sep 9, 2015 [m+a UFI Newsletter]