June 5, 2006 — According to rankings recently released in the “Top 200” compilation of Tradeshow Week magazine, which tracks a variety of statistics on industry shows in the U.S. and Canada, the CONEXPO-CON/AGG international exposition is the largest trade show of any industry in the United States for the third consecutive time (1999, 2002, and now 2005). Another AEM-sponsored show, the International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE), was named third largest for the 2005 edition of the exhibition.
CONEXPO
The 2005 event set records for exhibit space and attendance • spanning more than 1.88 million net square feet of exhibit space and more than 124,300 attendees. The next CONEXPO-CON/AGG will be held March 11-15, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
ICUEE
ICUEE 2005 featured more than 1.113 million net square feet of exhibits, more than 800 exhibitors, and more than 16,400 attendees. The next ICUEE show will be held October 16-18, 2007 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky. Also known as The Demo Expo, the show features hands-on equipment demonstrations simulating real-life job conditions.
In related news, Tiffany Sewell-Howard, CEO of The Charles Machine Works Inc., Perry, Okla., has been named chairman of the 2007 International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE) Management Committee. Others from the lifting equipment community named to the committee include: Larry Hoyord of Terex Utilities, White House, Tenn.; Paul Keogh of JCB Inc., Pooler, Ga.; and Mark Wegel of Altec Industries Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
