The ExpoBella! Award for best exhibitor practices started in 1999 as the ‘Oskar’ for best exhibition participations. With this award, initiator Gerard van Os wanted to encourage companies that use trade show participation in an intelligent way to obtain demonstrable and measurable results.
Expo-id is a competence centre for trade show marketing and communication that originated within the Van Os-Sonnevelt company in 2001. Under the motto ‘Exhibitions work!’, Expo-id offers a variety of services, including consultancy and guidance for exhibiting companies, training for booth staff and communication support for show organizers and service suppliers.
The website www.beurskalender.be originated in 2003 and offers the most detailed calendar of events in Belgium and Luxemburg. You can search the database by event name or date, industry, location and organizer. For each event you get start and end date, contact details of the organizer, information on the venue and a direct link to dedicated event web pages.
For the professional associations Febelux (venue operators and show organizers) and Expobel (stand contractors and service suppliers) Van Os-Sonnevelt has made the portal site www.exhibitions.be available. Here you will find news and current affairs from the exhibition industry, important information on rules and regulations that apply to exhibitions and events and a full members list with contact details.
Van Os-Sonnevelt is a founding partner of Expoprojects, the team that developed the online platform Expodoc to automate the information exchange between show organizers, exhibitors and service suppliers. Expodoc makes the hard copy exhibitor manual superfluous and makes sure that all orders are handled smoothly, fast and flawless;
Van Os-Sonnevelt is a founding partner of Passport-Expopedia, the company that developed a specific search engine for the exhibitions industry and launched the worldwide portal website Expopedia.net in 2011. Expopedia is the number one source for all information that relates to exhibitions and events worldwide: suppliers, discussions, groups, blogs and micro-sites, company profiles, people and news…
Expovisie is the oldest Dutch magazine for the exhibition and event industry. Since 2004 Van Os-Sonnevelt through its division Expo-id supplies editorial content for the magazine and for the Expovisie website. You can send your press releases to the multilingual Belgian newsroom on the well-known address Weversstraat 12, 1840 Londerzeel – Belgium or via e-mail: info@expoid.be.
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