TISE Releases Stats on 2016 Show, Reports Increase in Attendance

Dallas, TX, March 4, 2016—Informa Exhibitions reports a 10% increase in total attendance at The International Surface Event 2016: Surfaces, StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas, TileExpo, a signal to the industry that positive growth is in store for 2016—2017.

Attendees represented all segments of the industry, including distributors, buying groups, retailers, designers, architects, installers, fabricators and more, with an overall presence from around the globe.

The International Surface Event 2016 was held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada with the educational conference taking place January 19 to 22.

With nearly 700 exhibiting companies, the show floor was comprised of over 400,000 net square feet of exhibit space, show floor features, education and training space. The combined facility space surpassed nearly a million square feet for TISE attendees to peruse. Of the 700 exhibiting companies, 178 were first-time exhibitors, offering new products and services to the industry. Making a splash return onto the show floor were brands such as the Mohawk Industries, Gerflor, Karndean, and Armstrong, just to name a few.

Standing room only was found in many sessions in the new Ignite educational conference, which featured over 55 new classes, 100 speakers, 282 obtainable CEUs, all of which were developed with the support of a special industry advisory panel. This educational program had a 2016 participation increase of 7% over 2015.

Save the date for The International Surface Event 2017 scheduled to be held January 18 to 20, 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The educational conference will be held January 17 to 20.

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