Why Subcon?

Buyers from every manufacturing sector

Serious buyers with significant budgets from every sector of manufacturing converge on Subcon to network with their peers, keep up-to-date with technology, refine their sourcing and supply chain strategies, catch up with their existing suppliers and very importantly, find new suppliers.

Serious Buyer would like to meet Forward Looking Supplier for long term relationship ...

Visitors want to meet the people behind the business because they are looking for a close long-term working relationship. Exhibiting at Subcon give you the opportunity to deliver a total experience of your organisation - your integrity and your passion for what you are doing – as well as explaining your capabilities and services and demonstrating your products.

Contacts lead to contracts

Experience shows that in the long term, exhibiting can deliver the highest return of all the routes to market. The short term returns on exhibiting at Subcon are easily measured: How many good new contacts did I make? How many tangible enquiries? What was the cost per lead? What was the value of the orders that ensued within one, three and twelve months of the show?

Subcon 2008 is your opportunity to: Showcase your products and demonstrate your capabilities Make new contacts Retain your existing customers Explain how you solve problems Win the confidence of new customers Generate enquiries and forge new partnerships

I was heartened during my recent visit to the Subcon show, to hear of increasing contract wins and bulging order books from a large number of exhibitors. It was apparent that the level of service being offered by subcontractors is making a difference, the most successful are those that have invested in customer relationships and are providing more than just a manufacturing service, from product design and certification to sourcing of parts and assembly, to add value and make the customer's life easier.”
Jon Hobden, Subcontracting editor, Manufacturing Talk

Exhibitors do well at Subcon ...

“We are very happy with the quality of the contacts we made at the Show, no doubt about it. We secured 3 orders to a value of £150,000 in Oil & Gas, Medical Technology and Industrial Equipment - with more to come. In addition, a tier - one aerospace contractor is now talking to us about joining their supplier development programme.”
David Ross, Sales Director, Arterial UK, July 2007

“It’s been good. It’s been exactly what I wanted - good tangible leads”
Martin Beer, PTG precision Engineers Ltd.

“We anticipate business up to the value of £500,000 from the 2007 Show”
Roy Harris, Newby Foundries

“We’ve got a couple of opportunities out of it - these are long term projects and the customers are carrying out site visits - so there’s potential there”
Kevin Pritchard, MSI Quality Forgings

“It was absolutely fantastic”
Kavin Hackett, Arnold Engineering Plastics

“Fewer time wasters than usual and some quite decent enquiries ... we have got one order already and the possibility of more to come.”
Paul Hopkin, Tecan

“It was very good. We made a large number of meaningful contacts and we have already secured some orders. We rebooked for next year and we wouldn’t have done that if we weren’t very comfortable”
Mark Daker, Holbruck Ltd

“The quality is remarkable - the right people are visiting and we have got some very interesting leads”
Keith Palmer, Baumann Springs

“My General Manager was very sceptical about exhibitions but this Show has changed his mind. It has generated really good leads for us and we would like to confirm our stand now for next year”
Debbie Ghigi, DSM SOFT

“I think that the show is going to be very beneficial for us. The people we have had on the stand have been the right kind of people. Here we have taken enquiries and been given CAD files to look at. There was lots of interest from the Birmingham area as well as further afield in the UK. We had 6 strong enquiries with specifications and made about 30 meaningful contacts. It was great; we were happy with the set up, the stand, the way it was run; we are very satisfied”
Alec Stretch, MTP Laser

The quality of leads was very good ... we won a major relationship - potentially over £1M pa - with a contact from the show
Mark Howitt, AWS Electronics

Contact the sales team now on +44 (0) 207 970 6742
or email jonathan.clark@centaur.co.uk

Subcon 2008 is taking place at the NEC, on 22 - 24 April 2008.