Quadrant2Design

With Quadrant2Design, you get a custom-designed stand on a reusable modular framework covered entirely in graphic panels, so the same kit can be reconfigured for a different stand space at later shows. Quadrant2Design is the trading name of Exhibit-UK.Net Limited, a stand design and build company with its studio and factory in Poole, Dorset. The company says it has traded for 26 years, has completed around 10,000 projects and now designs and builds around 500 stands a year.

Stands that suit spaces from 9 to 100 sq m

You can choose reusable, modular, custom, sustainable or shell scheme stands, as its website groups the work. Stands combine full graphic finishes with product displays and integrated AV, and printed photographic flooring can carry your branding across the floor of the stand. If you are weighing up shell scheme or space only, it describes its hire stands as suited to spaces from 9 to 100 sq m. It is also listed under displays and graphics.

Free hardware hire and self-build plans

You can have the supporting structure on free hire, whether it builds your stand or you do.

• FREE-Hire PRO: the supporting structure is supplied on free hire, while the exhibitor pays for the graphic panels (which it then owns), project management, installation and dismantling. Graphics are stored free between shows and reworked to fit the next space. The site says 92% of its exhibitors use this plan.
• Hire to Self Build: for businesses that put up and take down their own stand, with the hardware on free hire for the first show and the option to add to the stand over time.
• Buy to Self Build and International Exhibiting are listed as further plans.

One project manager and a full pre-build

You deal with one project manager and can see your stand fully built first. Design, production, logistics and installation are carried out by its own staff, and the company states that nothing is subcontracted. Its CAD and graphic designers prepare a free design proposal, which it says takes 3 to 7 working days. Every stand is fully pre-built at the Poole factory; clients can attend the pre-build or receive photos and video. Those steps are useful to compare when briefing a stand builder.

UK, European and German shows covered

You can use it at UK and European venues, and it supplies self-build stands to exhibitors in the United States. Its Germany service, run for UK and US exhibitors, draws on more than 22 years of building there, with work named at Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart; its project managers and fitters speak English and German. See more suppliers in the United Kingdom.

Sustainability through reuse

You reuse the same materials across your exhibiting programme. The company rejects cardboard and hemp stands as not genuinely sustainable and bases its case on reuse, with smaller, less polluting transport, clean-process manufacturing and reconfiguring materials from show to show.

Clients

You can read feedback published on its site from exhibitors including Michelin Tyres, Henry Schein UK Holdings, FSL Aerospace, MacoPharma UK and the Garage Equipment Association.

Other stand builders listed here include Nimlok, Access Displays, GH Display and Magic Modular.

Source: quadrant2design.com/about-us, quadrant2design.com/exhibition-stand-hire, quadrant2design.com/exhibition-stand-design-company-germany, quadrant2design.com/sustainable-exhibition-stands