{"id":572,"date":"2009-08-20T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:25:14","slug":"dealer-show-trade-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/dealer-show-trade-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"dealer show trade wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"moreMotorsports<\/strong> has another performance oriented venue for dealers to put on the go – no go list: upstart International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS)<\/a> now goes head to head with the well established Performance Racing Industry (PRI)<\/a> event, both held the first week in December: IMIS in Indianapolis, the former<\/em> home of PRI, which was successfully transplanted to usually sunny Orlando and a much larger exhibit facility a few years back.<\/p>\n

And both of those shows compete for many of the same dealers normally attending the granddaddy of all automotive events, the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA)<\/a> Las Vegas spectacle traditionally held less than a month earlier in November.<\/p>\n

SEMA, meanwhile, padded their portfolio<\/strong> with a newly created Powersports and Utility Vehicles<\/em> channel which, according to their March press release, “…will feature manufacturers of power-driven equipment, such as personal transporters; motorcycles; motor scooters; two-, three- and four-wheel ATVs; pocket bikes; specialty golf carts; mini-bikes; dirt bikes; and accessories and services that support these vehicles.”<\/p>\n

Good news – not<\/em> – for long established powersports event leader Advanstar<\/strong> who this week conceded more collateral damage to their brand when they announced the Lucas Oil Stadium venue would not be part of their mid-February 2010’s Dealer Expo<\/a>, also held in Indy after vacating Cincinnati for larger digs in 1998.<\/p>\n

And it was that<\/em> relocation decision that opened the door for Easyriders<\/em> V-Twin Dealer Expo<\/a> to move back in with a v-twin centric show of their own in 2000, held a week before Dealer Expo and next year celebrating their 10th anniversary as a trade show producer.<\/p>\n

Five major shows<\/strong> covering powersports and motorsports between November and February. If you’re a powersports or motorsports or, worse, a cross channel dealer, be prepared to spend a lot more time on the road wearing out shoe leather and traversing TSA inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motorsports has another performance oriented venue for dealers to put on the go – no go list: upstart International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) now goes head to head with the well established Performance Racing Industry (PRI) event, both held the first week in December: IMIS in Indianapolis, the former home of PRI, which was successfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[23,80,109,110],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketplace-news","category-powersports-industry-insight","tag-dealer-expo","tag-pri","tag-sema","tag-trade-show"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-9e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}