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170 NEW COMPANIES TO EXHIBIT IN PRI TRADE SHOW
LAGUNA BEACH, CA – More than 170 new companies will be exhibiting in this year’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, December 11-13, 2008, in Orlando.
The PRI Trade Show is the largest racing trade show in the world, featuring exhibits of the latest in racing products, technology, motorsports engineering solutions and precision machining equipment by 1,400 companies. The Show requires all 1,000,000 square feet of the North/South Building of the Orange County Convention Center to house the volume of displays.
More than 40,000 racing industry entrepreneurs from 50 countries attend. The PRI Trade Show is timed so that racing retailers, race engine builders, professional race teams, race car builders and WD’s can preview the hottest new racing products, make purchasing decisions, and have them in stock in time for the start of the 2009 racing sales season.
In fact, PRI’s website recorded more than 100,000 unique visitors in October as the industry gathers information about the three most important business days in auto racing.
“Innovation is the life blood of auto racing, so we’re excited to welcome these new companies to the PRI Trade Show. It’s all the new racing technology on display that remains the prime attraction of the Show. It’s an event you can’t miss if you make your living in racing,” stated Steve Lewis, producer of the PRI Trade Show. “In these challenging economic times, the racing industry is a great place to be to conduct business. Racers will do whatever it takes to go racing, and that provides a great amount of stability to our industry.
“In our most recent weekly report on preregistration, we have printed 394 badges than we did the year before at this time,” he added. “Our phones are ringing, the emails are streaming in, the fax machines are humming and our registration team is pounding away at the keyboards to keep up.”
The Performance Racing Industry Trade Show has been recognized as the 45th largest U.S. trade show, according to Tradeshow Week magazine, in its annual analysis of the top 200 trade shows in America.
Everything happens here first!
Reaching more than 40,000 show attendees at the 2007 show in Orlando, the three-day PRI Trade Show is timed so that racing retailers, engine and car builders, wholesaler/distributors, professional race teams and other industry participants can shop the latest new product introductions and have them in inventory for the next racing season.
This year, Dale Inman serves as Opening Day Breakfast Speaker and more industry social events are on deck, as Budweiser sponsors the PRI Happy Hour on Thursday night. Also, a full slate of motorsports business seminars is scheduled for Friday and Saturday mornings, and the Snap-on All-Stars of Karting race runs Thursday night, Dec. 11, featuring such pro drivers as Ryan Hunter-Reay, Scott Speed, Jamie McMurray, Marco Andretti, Townsend Bell and many more competing on a specially constructed track directly outside the convention center.
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