Exhibitor Testimonals

QME 2008

QME is the one show we really need to be at …All our major customers, as well as our key distributors are at QME, and it allows us to show our full range of highly engineered bearings and components, as well as our capabilities in providing customised comprehensive solutions, to our key mining markets.
David Whiffin - Australian Timken

We did a lot of pre-show advertising for our presence and stand at QME, in a campaign we developed in conjunction with Chris Ghosh at Reed Exhibitions – and it paid off for us with around 500 leads that we’ve scanned over the past three days. It was a very successful marketing campaign that culminated in a draw to win a 250 cc KTM motor bike. That drew a lot of people to our stand.
Ben Mayo - Mayo Hardware

Dyno Nobel has been to QME a number of times and finds this show particularly important for brand awareness.  We will almost certainly be back here next time as we feel it is a great way for current and potential customers to meet some of the Dyno Nobel team from their area.
Tanya Milne - Dyno Nobel

This is the third QME we’ve been to, and we’ll be back for the fourth one in 2010. We see this show as a key element to reaching our target market within the mining industry. QME very much compliments our other marketing activities to the mining industry. We feel it’s important for us to be seen here, and we’ll be back again, as it’s an important part of our Corporate and Branding strategies.
Bruce Lees - NSK Australia

It’s been fantastic. This is the third QME we have done now and each year gets bigger and better. This has probably been the best one that we have done, especially launching our new name change. We’ve seen lot of the handson kind of guys who are using the product, but also a lot of the purchasing managers, mine managers and the like, plus people from interstate who come specifically to QME. All positive buyers, people that we wouldn’t usually get the chance to see, so it’s been good all round.
Wayne Randerson - Hi-Vis

QME 2006

Great, fantastic! We’ve got 37 suppliers in the Blackwoods pavilion and we've had well over 100 really solid inquiries. All of them are really happy. We’ve had inquiries across all industries: sugar, mining, construction and local infrastructure. Strategically, QME is a great opportunity for us and our suppliers to meet customers, both existing and new, and to network. We know that the Blackwoods pavilion will be even bigger in 2008, with new suppliers wanting to exhibit and existing exhibitors doubling their stand space.
Andy Reid, BLACKWOODS

Very good. It's a very important show for us. QME continually gets better each show and we've been able to grow our business significantly because of it. We've had a lot of interest from all market sectors, but particularly from the mining industry.
Murray Stalley - STEEL BLUE PREMIUM INDUSTRIAL FOOTWEAR

There has been plenty of traffic and we’ve made some good contacts. We have been developing our Amercable business here over the past three years, and we are predominantly using Reed Mining Events to establish a presence in the market. We were at the Mining and Energy Exhibition in the Hunter Valley in mid 2005, and we’ll be using GME to help us move into the WA market – and then we are taking a major presence at AIMEX next year as part of our thrust into the Australian mining sector. The quality of the Reed shows gives us excellent exposure to potential customers.
David Nasky - AMERCABLE

We had three objectives when attending QME: to raise the profile of our business, to meet new prospects and to re–establish contact with existing clients. We are happy to report that we’ve achieved all three. We’ve seen the right people in the right numbers, and generated good leads.
Colin Moore -PRONTO SOFTWARE

We are very happy; we’ve seen the right quality of people at QME and in good volumes. We’ve got some great leads to follow up. As a result of our success at QME, Powertrans has doubled the amount of space we’ll be taking at GME as part of a renewed push into the WA market – and we’ll definitely be at AIMEX. The Reed series of mining exhibitions are well organised, good quality and deliver excellent value for money.
Mark Stummer - POWERTRANS

By lunchtime on the first day, we had connected with more of our target market buyers than over three or four days at any other trade show we’d ever been at. We had genuine account applications happening from the start, with a broad cross-section of people visiting our stand wanting product information and pricing. We set some challenging objectives for the show and I’m delighted to say that we reached these objectives by early afternoon on the first day. There has been enquiries from a wide selection of industry, including earthmoving, mining, building, road construction, engineering and many related smaller businesses that service these markets. We’ve even picked up two large enquiries from other exhibitors. Overall, we have been amazed at the response and interest shown to our product ranges and certainly intend booking into other Reed mining exhibitions on the strength of QME 2006.
John Angell - TOPFIX FASTENING SYSTEMS