Planning
The electrical contractor’s role as a specifier and a buyer of brands grows more important each year! Meet this vital customer base and grow your sales… at North America’s biggest and most important electrical show!
Electrical Contractors specify and purchase more than $130 billion in products and services annually. Reach this Powerful Customer base! Get your share of this continually growing market. Important Facts You Need to Know
- 38 of the nation’s top 50 electrical contractors are NECA members (according to the 2006 Engineering News record report)
- 54% of the attendees say the NECA Show is the only national expo that they attend
- 89.3% of the NECA convention and show attendees are presidents, owners, partners, or corporate officers of their electrical contracting firms.
- Over 47% of the electrical contractor’s revenue now comes from their involvement in design / build projects according to the results of the new 2008 Electrical Contractor Magazine Reader Profile Study.
- 30% of electrical contractors now work in one or more of the following areas: LEED Projects, Solar Photovoltaics, Wind Generation, Net Metering and/or Co-Generation.
- Interest in product knowledge and training has taken a significant jump in the following areas (over 2006):
- NEC Changes (68%)
- Green/ Sustainable Building Technology (52%)
- Residential Automation/ Smart Homes (50%)
- 65.6% of the 2007 NECA Show attendees plan the purchase of new equipment or services within the next six months
- 74.5% of electrical contractors said their most important reason for attending The 2007 NECA Show was to see the latest product developments
- 97.5% of convention attendees spent time on the exhibit floor, with over 51% of contractors spending more than 10 hours each
- 86.6% of attendees feel no other show meets their needs better than The NECA Show.
“NECA provides solutions and educational assistance for nearly all the issues that Electrical Contractors face. NECA’s research, educational programs, and trade show are addressing our existing problems and working diligently on paving the way for future growth in our industry.”
Ron Autrey, Miller Electric, Jacksonville FL
- Where: Washington State Convention and Trade Center
- When: September 12–15, 2009
- What: The NECA Show
Stand Out from the Crowd
New Sponsorship program being offered, inquire today! New and Featured Product Room, and Technical Workshops run throughout the NECA Show. The NECA exhibitor can submit an application to give a Technical Workshop presentation. Applications for these workshops will be presented to a selection committee in February of 2009. You must be a NECA exhibitor in order to present a workshop. The 2009 application will be available on line and reservations for booth space can also be made online.
Call Julie Duda, Exhibition Sales Manager - 770-632-0044 exhibitsales@necanet.org.
“The NECA Show is a must show for us. Our customers are both the attendees and the exhibitors. If you want to see the latest equipment and meet the people who make and use it… NECA is the place to be”
Judy Kathman, Post Glover LifeLink
