America’s Beauty Show 2013 attendees weigh in on show exhibits and vendor turnout

Attendees of the March 9-11, 2013 America’s Beauty Show held at 

McCormick Place West,down town Chicago had mixed reactions 

about the show exhibits and booth exhibitor turn out during the 

event.

ABS attendee Valencia, told Chi-Town Beauty Scene that she hopes the show will be larger and of higher quality in 2014 than it was this year.

 “There was not as many vendors this year than there was last year,” she said. Valencia also said that she is hopeful new developments in trends, new ideas and witty inventions from ABS hair care booth exhibitors would be bigger and better next year.

Another ABS attendee, Fawn Julsaint, told Chi-Town Beauty Scene she saw more vendors at the event this year than she had on last year. 

"When they first started there were like three rows.Now there's 6 or 7,” she said. She also said that the face and body show products had improved.

According to Economic Bulletin, economicbulletin.net the ABS show brings together more than 500 professional exhibitors on a regular basis during the annual event attended by thousands of trade visitors from all over the world.

The Trade Show News Network website, tsnn.com  figures of the 2013 states

 that400 plus booth exhibitors were present inside the McCormick 

Place Convention Center during the three-day event in March of this year 

and March of 2012.

On March 22,2011, ABS confirmed that 375 companies and brands exhibited at the McCormick Place Convention Center that year.

 Some attendees the 2013 ABS event were impressed and some were unimpressed with the exhibits and turn out of booth exhibitors but Show News Network (TSNN) President and Editor-in-Chief, Rachel Wimberly  said in the TSNN's 50 Fastest-growing Trade Show Winners Announced for 3rd Annual 2012 Awards article “during some of the most challenging years in the trade show industry, America’s Beauty Show managed to thrive, with impressive attendance growth.”