EBACE

After a slow start, visitors began to stream in to EBACE and by the Tuesday afternoon there were considerable number of people in both halls, justifying the extra space used by the operators. There were 511 exhibitors occupying 2,072 exhibit sites, up from the record year of 2008, which had 455 exhibitors occupying 1,900. 10,600 attendees had pre-booked and the organisers were optimistic that this would lead to a considerably higher number of visitors by the end of the show. Final count was 12,751.