2012 tullett prebon london boat show highlights quality
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Drawing to a close yesterday, the 2012 Tullett Prebon London
Boat Show has started the Olympic year successfully for the leisure
marine industry with strong, positive feedback from both visitors
and exhibitors. A total of 134,753 visited ExCeL London
across the 10 days to enjoy five Shows in one*, with 102,841
enjoying a specific trip to the Boat Show.
Despite the difficult financial climate, this puts the 2012 Show
just 6% behind last year’s attendance and slightly ahead of
2010. The Show continues to be a resilient and evolving
event, in line with industry demand, with sales figures proving
better than expected for many.
The Show, as always, with interactive and educational features,
continues to impress and entertain visitors. More than 1200
visitors climbed HMS Victory’s rigging, over 1850 got afloat on the
Watersports Action Pool with Neilson and Rockley Watersports and
thousands of visitors took advantage of the mild weather to head
out to the Used Boat Marina in association with
YachtWorld.com. Plus, the introduction of the Luxury
Lifestyle & Supercar Showcase, along with The London Bike,
Outdoors and Active Travel Show, has helped to broaden the Show’s
appeal and attract a more diverse range of visitors.
Importantly, the Show remains a vital showcase for the £2.9bn
marine industry, highlighting manufacturing excellence, design,
quality and innovation. Sales made at this Show are vital for
exhibitors’ business plans for the year and the sector has shown
resilience in the face of continuing economic turmoil.
Murray Ellis, Managing Director of NBS is pleased with the
success of the Show: “We have worked extremely hard to create a 10
day event that our exhibitors would be proud of and that meets
visitors’ expectations. The response we have had from visitors is
that we are continuing to deliver the ‘wow’ factor. We acknowledge
that numbers are down which is a disappointment but we are pleased
with the high quality of visitors and the reflective sales.
“There has been a real buzz around the Show, from the moment the
Show was opened last Friday by Tamara Ecclestone with a media
throng.”
David Pougher, Chairman of National Boat Shows added:
“With 14 world launches and more than 45 boats being launched in
total, the London Show has once again cemented itself as an
important event in the international marine calendar. We
welcomed 128 new companies to the Show, over 500 companies in
total, who have taken advantage of the January timing to promote
themselves and their products to a significant audience, which they
would not have otherwise seen.”
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Exhibitors have been making sales from the
start of the Show. After the first weekend, Drascombe by
Churchhouse Boats has sold two boats, which gives Simon Harwood,
Production Manager, about six months of work. By the end of
Wednesday Ultrasonic Antifouling was on an even par with last
year’s Show on sales after five days and Bates Wharf had sold two
Bayliners and a Sessa C32, with lots of interest in their boats
outside on the Used Boats Marina in association with
YachtWorld.com.
“We are pleased with the Tullett Prebon London Boat Show. In terms
of retail sales we are ahead of the same time last year. We'll be
back next year.” Fairline Boats
“The world is a difficult place currently but we are very
pleased with our result in this environment and look forward to
2013.” Robert Braithwaite, Sunseeker
International
“This is the best London Show for six years.” Paul
Heyes, Key Yachting
Princess Yachts is very pleased to announce another successful
Tullett Prebon London Boat Show with sales exceeding
expectations. “While we are under no illusion that we still
face many challenges across our international markets, we are
delighted that the positive progress we saw in sales at the PSP
Southampton Boat Show has continued into London and it is an
encouraging start to the New Year”. Chris Gates,
Princess Yachts
“I just finished an order for 10 of our new Crabber 12, having
sold quite a few already during the week, plenty of interest from
groups like the scouts and lots of interest in our other boats.
We’ve had a very good show.” Peter Thomas, Cornish
Crabber
“Val Wyatt Marine, representing Interboat and Jetten Yachting of
Holland and Viking Moulding, is pleased to advise that following a
successful Southampton Boat Show (no boats were sold but 11
sales: four Jetten, three Interboat, and four Vikings were
made from direct enquiries at the Show), London 2012 seems as
positive with four trials now booked already and a great number of
serious leads to follow up. It is with note that both the Dutch
companies we represent continue with a commitment to the UK boat
shows and have already confirmed their attendance at Southampton in
September 2012. Also both Interboat and Jetten are now
using the UK shows to launch their new products with the world
premiers of the Interboat 640 and Jetten 30 Sedan here at this
show.” Guy Girling, Val Wyatt
Marine
“Our sales figure continues to grow at the Show with the level of
interest remaining very high. The new range of Mariner Boats has
made its debut here at the Show targeting a gap in the market for
small to medium size river launches that are stylish and
affordable. Whilst all models have proven popular at the show the
Mariner 421, with three sold, is currently in the lead closely
followed by the Mariner 560 and the Mariner 520. ABC has also been
approached by several dealers along the Thames as well as two
dealers near to the Norfolk Broads all wanting to become stocking
dealers, showing that even in the current economic conditions the
right products will always sell.” Matt, ABC
Marine
“It’s a challenging market, but this is a really good
event. I am both selling and taking orders; it helps set me up for
the year.” Stephen Lees, Marine Artist
“We’re happy with the level of business and the quality of
customer. It’s been as good as we had hoped it would be. The Show
helps deliver our brand and build business for the coming months.”
Rob Clay, TCS Chandlery
“Having a great Show, it’s a good opportunity to meet our
customer base and promote our distributors.” English
Braids
Having launched the latest additions to their deck
hardware range at this year’s Show: “The Show has been good and the
quality of visitors very good.” Paul Botterill,
Barton Marine
“I just sold my first boat this morning (Saturday) and
I’ve had plenty of sign-ups for demo days.” Seema Patel,
SmartKat
“The Show has been great for us and we are very happy for the
outcome.” Lester Abbott, Northshore
“We have sold three boats, which is the first time for five
years we have had a direct sale at the Show.”
Midlands Nautique
“There has been much more quality of people to the stand.
The people that are here want to be here. I have had some good
leads for both permanent and temporary clients. It’s been a good
Show overall.” Chris Windsor, Dover Marina
“As a direct result of the Show we are looking at close to
100 confirmed marina berths being taken. The stand has been a
useful tool for other exhibitors to bring people to, to discuss
berthing options.” Gareth Turnbull, Which
Marina?
“Having the System 2 cable wake system down by the pool
has produced some good leads. It has been a good platform for us to
be able to invite interested people to the Show to see us. I will
be coming back.” Tim Woodhead, Industry Wake
Parks
“The arrival of The London Bike, Outdoors and Active Travel Show
has brought loads of visitors to our stand, resulting in us
smashing our targets for today.” Helen Waterhouse,
RYA
“We’ve had a great show, with a steady stream of quality
customers throughout. We found it particularly busy the last few
days and have seen some strong sales, especially on the larger
Turbojets and the new Dieseljet range. There has been particular
interest in the 565 Dieseljet, with several orders for yacht
tenders and as standalone day boats. The Tullett Prebon London Boat
Show seems to have attracted a lot more foreign visitors than the
Southampton Boat Show, and we have sold boats to China, Brazil and
the US. Overall, an excellent start to the year for Williams.”
Mathew Hornsby, Williams Performance Tenders
“We’ve had a successful show with sales and customer interest
far exceeding last year’s Tullett Prebon London Boat Show. We saw
significant interest in our new brands, Aquatic AV, Alpine and
Digital Yacht, which have all brought new customers to our stand,
as well as continued interest from OEMs and customers in the
market-leading KVH products. All in all a great show, with a great
buzz, quality customers and good sales.” Andrew Bush, C A
Clase
The event also provided the BMF with the
opportunity to promote the successful leisure marine industry,
which employees some 31,300 people, to important political,
financial and business stakeholders to ensure that key decision
makers understand the importance of the sector to UK plc.
Business Minister Mark Prisk, Skills Minister John Hayes and CBI
Director General John Cridland CBE all departed having been
impressed with the manufacturing excellence on display and key to
help and promote the industry in the future.
The Show also proves a magnet with a number of
celebrities and personalities. HRH The Princess Royal made
her annual visit while TV personalities Nick Knowles, Mario from
The Only Way is Essex, magician Paul Daniels and wife Debbie McGee
and sports stars – both current and ex – enjoyed the Show: Alan
Brazil, Ray Parlour and Jensen Button. Sailing heroes Ben
Ainslie, Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, Brian Thompson, GB canoeists
Huw Sweetnam, Lani Belcher and Abigail Edmonds, three-times Jet Ski
Champion Jack Moule and powerboat champion Shelley Jory-Leigh also
took time to entertain visitors.
One of the stars of the Show was, undoubtedly
the Watersports Action Pool. The pool has seen
wall to wall action with champions of all disciplines showing off
their skills. Importantly 1850 visitors have had the chance
to get on the water and give it a try themselves, choosing from
kayaking, wakeboarding, dinghy sailing, windsurfing and stand up
paddle boarding.
The interactive activity provided by
exhibitors on various stands around the Show has really
added to the overall visitor experience and has also been a success
for those exhibitors involved.
The 2012 PSP Southampton Boat Show will take
place at Mayflower Park from 14-23 September. http://www.southamptonboatshow.com/,
while next year’s Tullett Prebon London Boat Show runs from 11-20
January 2013 at ExCeL London.
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For more information, images, video,
or to schedule an interview please contact the NBS Press Office
team at Publicasity on 020 7632 2432 or boatshow@publicasity.co.uk
and find Show updates on the @LoveBoatShows Facebook and Twitter
pages.
Notes to editors
- The Tullett Prebon London Boat Show at ExCeL
and the PSP Southampton Boat Show in Mayflower Park are organised
by National Boat Shows Ltd (NBS). NBS is a subsidiary of the
British Marine Federation (BMF), the trade association for the UK
boating industry
- * The five Shows in one include the Tullett
Prebon London Boat Show, Luxury Lifestyle & Supercar Showcase,
The London Bike, Outdoors and Active Travel Shows from Thursday 12
January through to Sunday 15 January 2012.
The next PSP Southampton Boat Show takes place from 16 – 25
September 2011
- High-res images, video and audio can be found
at http://www.londonboatshow.com/2012/visiting/show_gallery.aspx
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