December Deadlines—Part III

As we told you earlier this month, December has a long list of deadlines important to SHOT Show exhibitors. The biggest date ahead for all our exhibitors is Dec. 26. Deadlines for more than two-dozen booth setup items fall on this date, and with the hubbub of the holiday week and the actual Christmas day just the day before, this is a date that could easily slip by you. Note that many of these entries are for the last date exhibitors can access certain items at the reduced advanced rate. Starting Dec. 27, those advanced rates end, so be sure to get your orders in now.

The full list of exhibitor deadlines is as follows:

  1. Audio/Visual (Advance Rate) – Freeman AV
  2. Booth Security Guard Service (Advance Rate) – Century
  3. Carpet (Advance Rate) – Freeman
  4. Catering Request – Sands/Venetian
  5. Cleaning – Booth Order– SES
  6. Column Drape – Freeman
  7. Computer Equipment (Advance Rate) – NMR
  8. Credit Card Authorization – SES
  9. Credit Card Authorization – Freeman
  10. Electrical Order – SES
  11. Exhibit Accessories (Advance Rate) – Freeman
  12. Exhibit Furnishings (Advance Rate) – Freeman
  13. Firearms Onsite Inventory & Security Program
  14. Hanging & Rigging Order – SES
  15. Hanging Truss, Chain Hoist, Lighting and Stagehand Labor (Advance Rate)
  16. Freeman Internet & Telecommunications Order – SES
  17. Labor – Installation, Dismantle, Forklift – Freeman
  18. Labor – Rigging 200lbs and over – SES
  19. Material Handling – Freeman
  20. Payment Authorization – Freeman
  21. Payment Authorization – SES
  22. Rental Exhibit Order (Advance Rate) – Freeman
  23. Special Signs and Graphics (Advance Rate) – Freeman
  24. Target Date Changes – Freeman
  25. Utilities – Air, Drain, Sprinklers, Water – SES
  26. Vehicle/Motorized Units Spotting Fee – Freeman

Questions about an item in the list above? Important contacts at ConvExx and Freeman can be found here and here, respectively. You’ll also find our Frequently Asked Questions page helpful.

 

Dave Jeannette is Senior Director, Sales for the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @DaveJeannette.

Freeman Named Official Services Contractor for SHOT Show

NSSF has awarded Freeman a five-year contract to serve as the official exposition services contractor for the SHOT Show®, beginning with the 2014 show.

In this period of transition, our goal is to maintain continuity for our customers to help make their SHOT Show experience the best it can possibly be. Our new agreement with Freeman provides that continuity and continues to deliver best-in-class services to our exhibitors.

Freeman is the leading global partner for integrated marketing solutions for live engagements. It produces more than 4,300 expositions annually, including 135 of the 250 largest U.S. trade shows, and 11,000 other events worldwide.

Said Freeman President John O’Connell, “Freeman is most appreciative of continuing its longstanding partnership with NSSF. It is a privilege to be associated with the production of SHOT, clearly one of the iconic events in America if not the world.”