Monday, July 31, 2006
Visitors flock to London motor show
Visitor attendance at the British International Motor Show at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands was 23 per cent up on the previous event – held at Birmingham’s NEC in 2004.
According to International Motor Industry Events, which organised the show on behalf of the SMMT, numbers were set to have hit 420,000 by the time the exhibition closed on 30 July.
By close of play on Friday 28 July attendance had already reached 345,000.SMT chief executive Christopher Macgowan said the decision to move the show to London had been vindicated and predicted building on the success at the same venue in 2008.
DATED: 31.07.06
FEED: MT
According to International Motor Industry Events, which organised the show on behalf of the SMMT, numbers were set to have hit 420,000 by the time the exhibition closed on 30 July.
By close of play on Friday 28 July attendance had already reached 345,000.SMT chief executive Christopher Macgowan said the decision to move the show to London had been vindicated and predicted building on the success at the same venue in 2008.
DATED: 31.07.06
FEED: MT
