German Vendors put Chinese copycats on notice

Well, in my opinion, "It's about time!" Finally someone spoke out about the ridciulous trend that's caught fire in the last few years and through the trickle-down effect, has started to impact the on-line industry. Far East piracy has stolen money from the pockets of all honest trade show manufacturers as well as its distributors. Thank goodness someone had the cohones to stand up and say what we've been griping about under our collective breathes for quite a while now.

Last month, German engineers kicked off an show in Munich by berating the Far East. Always proud of their technical heritage, the German equipment makers at this year’s Bauma convention blamed engineering “piracy” and “copycat” patent infringement in China and other countries for costing them billions of dollars each year in lost sales.

Instead of keeping a low profile, Chinese equipment vendors stuck out their necks at the Munich megashow by upping their exhibit footprint by a factor of seven, for a total of 13,200 sq meters, since the last triennial event was held in 2004. The part that is typical, the Bauma show officials did not make any attempt to restrain them. Imagine that; money won out over practicality?

A Smash Hit Displays is a huge advocate of American and foreign trade show equipment products made products from legitimate manufacturers. We do not subscribe to the notion of buying cheap nonames. We are proud someone finally stepped up and shouted aloud what's been slowly eating away at our industry. Maybe if more people follow our German allies, we can curtail their illegal actions. We strive to offer high quality trade show displays to our customers. Some of those displays include: exhibit banner stands, portable folding booth, and