With 429 companies and organisations on show supplying industry-specific products, knowledge and advice for all manner of turf care and open space management disciplines – coupled with an equally wide-ranging education programme - this year’s IOG SALTEX (Windsor, September 6-8) promises to be the fount of all knowledge for everyone involved in the maintenance and management of sports, amenity and leisure facilities.
Companies supplying turf care machinery and services continue to feature heavily at the show – with 45 per cent of exhibitors being listed under this category (compared to 28 per cent last year and 30 per cent in 2009).
Indeed, this year 157 ‘machinery companies’ will be on the showground – 51 more than were present at last year’s show!
Coupled with the fact that companies involved in the supply of amenity services also figure prominently this year (visit www.iogsaltex.co.uk for the complete list of companies represented), the statistics prompt IOG Sales Director Clare Johnson to comment:
“The exhibitor count for this year’s show again truly reflects suppliers’ confidence – both in the industry as well as in IOG SALTEX’s ability to attract high-calibre visitors from all corners of the sector.
“There’s no doubt that while a host of suppliers are understandably exercising a degree of caution, there remains a healthy appetite for business in every aspect of effective and efficient turf care,” she says.
IOG SALTEX 2011 (www.iogsaltex.co.uk) will be held on September 6-8 at Windsor Racecourse, Berks, and will embrace fine turf and sports surfaces, turf maintenance equipment, children’s outdoor play and safety surfacing, landscaping, contractors, commercial vehicles, outdoor leisure and facilities management, as well as software and security equipment. The show is attended by open space management professionals and contractors – from groundsmen and greenkeepers through to play officers, architects, designers and surveyors as well as local authority and outdoor leisure facility managers.
Organised by The Institute of Groundsmanship, the first IOG exhibition was staged in 1938, the forerunner to today’s IOG SALTEX Sports, Amenity & Landscape Trade Exhibition. Held annually at Windsor Racecourse, IOG SALTEX is the annual extravaganza for everyone who cares for and/or manages open spaces – including groundsmen, greenkeepers, contractors, local authority and leisure facility managers. The Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) is the leading membership organisation representing grounds managers, groundsmen, grounds maintenance managers, greenkeepers and all others involved in the management of sports pitches, landscape and amenity facilities in the UK. As well as maintaining the IOG Performance Quality Standards and providing a consultancy service for sports grounds, lawn maintenance and amenity horticulture, the IOG’s extensive Training and Education programme includes cricket, football, tennis, horseracing, bowls, artificial surfaces, turf science and many other specialist subjects. For more information visit www.iog.org
Source: Wildish Communications Ltd for IOG Saltex
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