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Issue 74 May 2017
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Founders of the FIT Show, Paul Godwin and Matthew Glover welcome everyone to FIT 2017, at the NEC, Birmingham
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Phew! We are almost there…and as we get ready to open the doors to the FIT Show, we are pinching ourselves that those doors are at the NEC! Can you believe it?
At that time the home improvement window and door industry had sunk to what was close to an all time low, the nearest it had been to recession. People were down and they wanted – needed – something to lift them. And that is
The reason for this nostalgia is that at the time we never dreamed that we would stand on the threshold of what will be the biggest window, door and conservatory show for twenty years, a world class event...and at the National Exhibition Centre!
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We must consider the implications this has for the industry itself. I am a firm believer that a good trade show will be a true representation of the industry that it represents. And on that basis the window, door and conservatory business is in fine fettle and the future looks very positive indeed.
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I recall it was not that long ago that the industry was coming to terms with the fact that we had reached saturation point, as the vast majority of Britain’s homes had been fitted with double glazing. The phrase ‘replacing the replacements’ was coined to give us all hope though without any real belief.
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what the announcement of the FIT Show seemed to bring – Hope! The FIT Show was embraced from the outset and by the time of the official launch in early 2012 we had almost 50 exhibitors signed up, all without any hesitation at all.
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We at the FIT Show team live with this daily of course, and have done since 2011 when the idea first came to us. That with the demise of Glassex, perhaps, just perhaps, the industry would go for a new event that was put together by people that worked in and were passionate about the industry, and which looked at the industry as it is now, not based upon ideas that were decades out of date.
Left to right: Matthew Glover and Paul Godwin, founders of The FIT Show
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The industry has been blitzed, no apology for it, by our outpouring of promotion about this year’s show in addition of course, to bombardment from exhibitors themselves. The truth is that we want everyone to visit, to come and see what’s going on in no less than 3 big halls at the UK’s exhibition mecca the NEC…more than 200 companies selling windows, doors, conservatories and everything in between, that want to connect with the people and companies that make, sell and install them. And soon it will be upon us.
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