Exhibitor Testimonials
SED 2009 was a great success for both exhibitors and visitors. See below for what some of the 250 exhibiting companies had to say.
For more information on exhibiting or any of the testimonials contact Graeme Lea on +44 (0)20 8652 4261 or email Graeme.Lea@rbi.co.uk
Tony Mace, Managing Director, Mace Industries
“It’s been a great 2 days and the people here are serious buyers".
John Brandt, International Mobile Mixers
“We have sold twice as much this year than last year which is attributed to the finance offers tailored to 3 key sectors of the market, which are demolition, waste handling and residential.” Orr concluded, “We have absolutely no doubt we will be back next year as we are keen to support the industry and our ever growing loyal customer base.”
Steve Orr, New Holland
“It’s the best SED ever for us – we have had numerous enquiries and good quality visitors.”
Kim Dudley, UK Sales Manager, Doosan
“We were so busy on our stand we had to put on another shift.”
Mark Bingham, Managing Director, Universal Bingham
“We are really pleased we made the effort – it was definitely the right decision. Andrew (Baughan) is chuffed with the big stand and we will be back next year for sure. Leads have been excellent too and will convert to sales.”
Sarah Ford, Sales Director, Baughans
“We have sold lots of kit off stand and have had plenty of really good leads, the girls in the office are going to be very busy for the next couple of weeks.”
Ed White, General Manager, Digga Europe
“What a great show! We’ve sold 2 Takeuchi tracked loaders off stand with attachments. And we have also sold a CB40 crusher bucket, which we launched at the show,” reported Hollie Kehoe, international sales executive. “On the Wednesday of the show we were run off our feet and could not get to everybody! The leads we have had have been quality too.”
Westquay Trading
“We have had a really good few days the leads we have generated I am confident will convert to sales. We weren’t pushing to hire our equipment, but we have secured a number of hire deals, which we are really pleased about. We’ll be back in 2010.”
Rod Leyland, Managing Director, Anros
“It’s our second successful year at SED, following the success of last year, we have increased our stand space. This show provides a direct link to our construction clientele, which provides us with hundreds of positive business leads from both existing and new customers, and we find we have an excellent conversion rate. As a result hundreds of companies will benefit from our free training give-a-ways through 2009.”
Brenton Loomes, Training and Development Consultant, Citrus Training
“We have picked up very good contacts; I think that because the show is smaller, visitors are going to every stand, whereas when the show was bigger – they perhaps might not have had time to get to you. We also noticed that there was more optimism about.”
Angela Philpott, Arc-Gen Hilta
"We really like the new location of our stand and want to be here again next year. We sold 4 machines off stand and had plenty of good leads. We always support SED it gives our customers both existing and new an excellent chance to try our machines.”
Scott Freemam, Marketing Manager, Case
“Day 2 was much busier than day one and we have made some positive leads and made sales from stand”. Athawes has already said that Halomec will return next year, “We want the same stand, in the same place and we’ll be bringing more girls!”
Julian Athawes, Director, Halomec
“We sold the 70tonne Link Belt crawler crane to Mark Jones of Jones Crawler Cranes in Dorset straight off the stand on Wednesday. Mark was so confident that he was going to buy the crane that he even bought his own machine labels with him, with his website address, and promptly put them on once the deal was done.”
Rod Leyland, Managing Director of NRC Cranes
“We only took over Red Rhino in March of this year so it’s all very new to us. It’s our first show with this product and it’s been brilliant. We launched the 2000 Multiform Crusher at the show and the interest has been phenomenal – so much so we have decided to expand the range on the strength of feedback from the show.” Hardisty concluded, “We will certainly be back next year and will be considering an outside plot with demo area.”
Alan Hardisty, Production Director, Red Rhino
“We did not expect this show to be good – but we have had a great show and as good as any other SED we have been to. The workshops were a resounding success we had customers fly down from Scotland, Jersey and Northern Ireland – we’ve had 550 customers. We would also like to thank the organisers – the organisation was brilliant for the workshops.”
Katie Williams, Sales and Marketing Director, Higher Concept Software
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