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CES 2027 · January 6–9, 2027 · Las VegasView planning guide

Design through return handling

Turnkey CES exhibit services with one accountable project path

Coordinate the rental, custom elements, graphics, production, freight, material handling, labor, installation, show-service orders, dismantle, and return plan around one approved scope.

Full-service coordination

Ten connected workstreams, managed against the same deadline

Each workstream has a defined owner, dependencies, approvals, and venue or contractor interfaces. The scope distinguishes what we provide from what show-appointed parties control.

Turnkey exhibit rentals

Coordinate rental architecture, graphics, labor, warehousing, drayage, freight, and return handling through one defined project scope.

Included planning areas

  • Validated rental architecture and footprint review
  • Approved graphics, furnishings, flooring, storage, and technology scope
  • Freight, material handling, installation, dismantle, and return coordination
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Project management

Use one accountable coordination path for approvals, deadlines, vendors, show orders, production, freight, installation, and closeout.

Included planning areas

  • One project brief, responsibility map, and approval path
  • Milestone, dependency, deadline, and vendor coordination
  • Readiness reviews, punch list, opening handoff, and closeout
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Custom design and fabrication

Develop a custom or hybrid environment around traffic flow, product demonstrations, brand requirements, and confirmed venue constraints.

Included planning areas

  • Audience, product, demonstration, meeting, and circulation planning
  • Custom, rental, or hybrid architecture selection
  • Engineering, fabrication, finish, access, and venue-constraint review
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Graphics production

Manage artwork specifications, preflight, production, finishing, labeling, packing, installation, and replacement planning.

Included planning areas

  • Artwork specifications, brand-file intake, and preflight
  • Production, finishing, labeling, packing, and installation plan
  • Quality checkpoints, replacement strategy, and removal scope
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Warehousing and asset management

Coordinate storage, inventory inspection, packing plans, repair decisions, and program-level asset visibility between events.

Included planning areas

  • Private program inventory and condition review
  • Packing, labeling, repair, refurbishment, and replacement decisions
  • Storage, pull, preparation, and return-handoff coordination
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Logistics and freight planning

Choose advance-warehouse or direct-to-show routing, align carrier schedules, and plan outbound and return handling.

Included planning areas

  • Advance-warehouse or direct-to-show routing decision
  • Carrier timing, labels, documents, targets, and exceptions
  • Material handling, empty-container, outbound, and return plan
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Installation and dismantle

Coordinate qualified labor, installation supervision, punch-list completion, dismantle, packing, and outbound handoff.

Included planning areas

  • Qualified labor scope, calls, supervision, and dependencies
  • Installation sequence, detail checks, and opening punch list
  • Dismantle, packing, outbound paperwork, and carrier handoff
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Show-service coordination

Review and coordinate venue- and contractor-controlled services without implying ownership, control, or affiliation.

Included planning areas

  • Organizer, venue, contractor, and utility responsibility review
  • Service-order requirements, dates, drawings, and approvals
  • Field coordination without implying control or affiliation
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AV and interactive technology

Plan supplied screens, lighting, digital displays, lead capture, and interactive technology around power, content, staffing, and support needs.

Included planning areas

  • Screen, lighting, digital display, interaction, and content scope
  • Power, network, mount, control, cable, and backup planning
  • Demonstration staffing, accessibility, reset, and support workflow
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Refurbishment and program support

Reconfigure exhibit assets, replace graphics, address repairs, and prepare a repeatable plan for future trade shows.

Included planning areas

  • Asset condition, repair, reconfiguration, and replacement review
  • New graphics, components, packing, and show-specific adaptation
  • Repeatable standards, records, readiness, and next-event planning
Plan the next exhibit cycle

How work is fulfilled

One accountable plan, with in-house ownership and qualified licensed subcontractors

The project proposal identifies who owns each deliverable, which work is managed directly by the CES Exhibits team, which specialized work is fulfilled by qualified or licensed subcontractors where required, and which services remain controlled by the organizer, venue, general-services contractor, carrier, utility provider, or labor jurisdiction.

CES Exhibits ownership

Project brief, design direction, scope coordination, schedule, approvals, production oversight, quality checkpoints, vendor communication, installation readiness, opening punch list, and closeout path.

Specialized fulfillment

Project-specific fabrication, printing, freight, material handling, installation and dismantle labor, AV, interactive technology, utilities, rigging, cleaning, or other regulated work may be assigned to qualified or licensed subcontractors and show-appointed providers.

Defined terminology

What “all-inclusive” means on this website

The term refers to the supplied scope categories below. A project proposal confirms the footprint, quantities, schedule, venue, and exceptions that determine the final price.

  • Exhibit rental
  • Graphics
  • Installation and dismantle (I&D) labor
  • Coordination
  • Warehousing
  • Drayage / material handling
  • Freight to and from the show

Supplied starting points

Common turnkey footprints

These baselines help establish direction. The final proposal resolves products, graphics, utilities, AV, venue rules, target dates, freight, labor, and special requirements.

10x10

10x10 turnkey

Starting at $8,000 all-inclusiveA compact exhibit program for a confirmed 10x10 footprint.

10x20

10x20 turnkey

Starting at $12,500 all-inclusiveMore room for product demonstrations, storage, and meetings.

20x20

20x20 island

Starting at $22,900 all-inclusiveAn island footprint with four-sided access and expanded visitor flow.

Custom

Larger or unsupported footprint

Quoted per projectPricing is resolved after footprint, scope, venue, and schedule review.

Field coordination experience

Work within the assigned contractor and labor structure

Experience coordinating with the supplied organizations does not imply ownership, exclusivity, endorsement, or affiliation.

CES Exhibits is an independent exhibit-services provider and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CES or the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

General-service contractor experience

  • National general-service contractors
  • Venue-appointed service teams
  • Licensed specialty subcontractors
  • Show labor partners

Labor relationships

  • Teamsters
  • Carpenters
  • IATSE
  • IBEW

Plan the next step

Build the service scope before deadlines become constraints

Share the event, footprint, venue, products, graphics, technology, schedule, existing assets, files, and contact preferences in one structured request.

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