Services

MEC provides one stop turnkey services for your entire trade show program. From logistics planning to on site supervision, our impeccable support keeps our clients coming back year after year. MEC started out as a service company providing high quality carpenter labor and dedicated supervision well over 30 years ago in Chicago. Now, MEC is a global provider with a service network that spans the globe.

Creative Services

MEC understands one-on-one / face-to-face marketing at trade shows. Exhibitions and live events offer a live face-to-face opportunity to meet potential customers within a personal and interactive environment which you control.

How do you create messaging that relates to your customers? Messages that relate to the problem, want or need of your target customer are essential in getting your message across in an instant, which is about all the time that you have. Brainstorming, and, a lot of experience, that's how.

Our consultants have an average of well over 20 years in the industry and can help to take you through the entire process simply and easily. We are experts at the process. Great solutions are experienced, which is how you will be remembered best. We help our customers develop the critical message, and then execute in a way that can be experienced at its fullest. It is always our goal at MEC to provide you with new ways of seeing and doing things. It is our primary objective as your partner at Trade Shows to help you experience the growth you are looking for.

  • Tradeshow Exhibit Design
  • Corporate Showrooms
  • Briefing Centers
  • Media Centers
  • Retail Design

Program Management

Internal Management for the following:

  • Account Management
  • Program Management
  • Logistics Planning
  • Field Management including Labor and Dedicated Supervision
  • Asset Management
  • Graphic Management
  • Construction Drawings
  • Engineering Drawings
  • Maintenance
  • Show Services
  • Estimating
  • Exhibit Maintenance

Fabrication

  • Custom Fabrication
  • Graphic Production
  • Large Scale Digital Printing
  • Fabric Integration
  • Laminating
  • Lighting
  • Maintenance
  • Metal Working
  • Specialized Painting & Finishing
  • Structural Certification

Field Service / Labor & Supervision

As an MEC client, your program is administered on site by your dedicated supervisor. They are consummate professionals trained to get you in and out of a show with the least amount of stress. They will be there strictly for your company and your efforts as its leader.

MEC Dedicated Supervisors generally manage the "pull and prep" of your exhibit in our shop whenever possible. This helps to maintain their level of intimacy with your structure, knowing and understanding its abilities and limitations and keeping track of needed and finished repairs.

  • Strong, consistent dedicated supervision
  • Dedicated on-site supervisors manage most exhibit inspections and prep
  • MEC started as a labor provider
  • Maintain experienced supervisors
  • General Contracting

Production Management Tools

Plan plan plan, did we say plan?

Plannning ahead. What was normal? What does that mean today? In the exhibit industry is now dramatically different.

Creating a schedule for each show you attend, as far out as possible, consisting of installation and dismantle, shipping (to advanced warehouse vs. direct to show), material handling, utilities, exhibit elements, carpeting and padding, graphics and product, can greatly assist in developing and tracking your event plan on a per show and yearly basis.

MEC is structured to help you with this critical scheduling, it's what we do. Everything revolves around your (sentence ends here)

We help you understand the differences in various unions in working in different convention facilities, rate variations from city to city and state to state, and which states have right-to-work laws.

Budgeting

By planning these essential components of your program early, we can help you establish realistic budgeting parameters, real world achievable metrics.

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