Business Options

Acquisition – A full or partial acquisition of the event or business assets. Reed Exhibitions is interested in meeting with you to discuss acquisition options and scenarios, including your ongoing role and involvement, potential for earn-outs and increasing the visibility of your events in the marketplace.

Joint-Venture – An entity or relationship between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. With offices in more than 50 countries, Reed Exhibitions can apply resources to your event in other valuable markets – this opens new distribution for your association members and increases your exposure and influence.

Management Contract – The owner of the event or business retains a professional management firm to assume direct and full responsibility for all, or select business activities Reed Exhibitions produces more trade events than any other professional firm in the world – our relationships with venues, hotels, decorators, airlines, and other service and products providers is the best in the industry. In house we have full support resources to apply to every aspect of your event.

Strategic Alliance - A strategic alliance is a formal relationship formed between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations. Exploring a Strategic Alliance with Reed Exhibitions means looking for ways that we can create more value for our customers – collocating events offers more products with fewer out of office trips, “show within a show” opens new markets for manufacturers and new products for retailers.