Lightpower pulls out of Frankfurt

UK - Lightpower, one of Germany's leading lighting distributors, has announced that it has cancelled its participation in this year's ProLight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt (5-8 March). The reason given for the withdrawal is the bad timing of the show. Lighpower's statement says: "We regret this decision, however . . . when a trade show is planned concurrent with a national holiday and preparations for the Cebit trade show overlap, then we, as well as other exhibitors, come across some serious coordination problems. This simply means that over 40% of our clientele shall not show up because they will be tied up at the same time with their own service activities during the Cebit show projects and Carneval activities. More than 1000 event technicians will be working at the Cebit."

At a press conference at ProLight+Sound last year, Lightpower - a long-standing ProLight+Sound exhibitor - revealed that they had cancelled their involvement with the Showtech exhibition, which is staged biennially in Berlin, and would from then on be putting their support completely behind the Frankfurt exhibition. This, and the fact that the dates of the ProLight+Sound 2003 were already known at the time, make this latest announcement something of a surprise.

At the same time, Lightpower has said that it will be hosting its third series of open days at its Paderborn headquarters from 26-28 March.

(Lee Baldock)

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