Trade Show Exhibit Company — Design, Build, Rent
Exhibit Options designs, builds, rents and manages trade show exhibits from two West Coast facilities. Design, engineering, fabrication, graphics, logistics and installation all happen in-house, so one team owns your program from first sketch to final teardown.
What a Trade Show Exhibit Company Does
A trade show exhibit company designs, engineers, fabricates and manages the physical presence a brand brings to a show: custom exhibits, rentals, portable displays, graphics, freight, installation and dismantle, and storage between shows. Exhibit Options runs every one of those steps in-house.
Exhibit Options at a Glance
- Building exhibits since 2005, in an industry that demands constant innovation, creativity, and efficiency.
- 72,000 sq ft across two facilities, in Cerritos, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. West Coast shows are our specialty.
- Veteran-owned and woman-owned, founded by George and Rena Patton.
- Single-source. Design, engineering, fabrication, graphics, installation and storage under one roof.
Brands we've built for include Mobileye, Shell, QSC, Olipop, MaryRuth's Organics and Sports Research, on trade show floors from CES and ConExpo to Natural Products Expo West. The finished booths are in Our Work.
Trade Show Exhibit Services
Ground-up design, engineering and fabrication for inline, peninsula, island and double-deck booths, engineered to reconfigure across a full show calendar.
More about this ServiceCustom-look rental structures configured per show, held to the same graphics and finish standard as an owned exhibit.
More about this ServicePortable displays, banner stands and pop-up systems for 10x10 inlines, road shows and satellite events.
More about this ServiceOne team from concept renderings through engineering, CNC fabrication, grand-format graphics and project management.
More about this ServiceImmersive brand activations, interactive installations and technology integrations that give attendees something to do, not just something to look at.
More about this ServiceFull event lifecycle management, from strategy and pre-show promotion through on-site execution and post-event reporting.
More about this ServiceCustom, Rental or Portable Display?
Most exhibitors know the show and the booth space, not the structure. Here's how the three compare. If you're still choosing the structure itself, our guide to which exhibit type fits your space covers inline, peninsula, island and double-deck.
| Custom Exhibit | Rental Exhibit | Trade Show Display | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best when | You exhibit repeatedly and want an asset you own | Your show schedule or booth size changes year to year | You need a portable presence for inlines and road shows |
| Typical space | 10x20 through island and double-deck | 10x10 through island | 10x10 inline, tabletop, road show |
| Who owns it | You do. Stored and reconfigured between shows | We do. Configured per show | You do. Ships in cases |
| Design freedom | Unlimited | Custom graphics and layout on rental structure | Graphics within a system |
| Cost shape | Highest up front, lowest per show over time | No capital outlay, priced per show | Lowest overall |
Plenty of programs mix all three: an owned island for the flagship show, a rental when a second show lands the same quarter, portable displays for regional events. Tell us your next twelve months of shows and we'll tell you honestly which way the math points.
Every exhibit starts with a conversation about the show, the space and the budget. Tell us what you're working on and you'll get a design direction and a proposal that lists every cost and service, so nothing surfaces later.
Why a West Coast Exhibit House Changes the Math
Las Vegas has been the number one trade show destination in North America for more than 26 straight years, and the Anaheim Convention Center is the largest exhibit facility on the West Coast. If your calendar runs through CES, ConExpo, NAB, Natural Products Expo West or NAMM, your exhibit is coming here regardless of who builds it.
- Freight. Linehaul is billed on distance and weight, so Cerritos to Anaheim at about 15 miles, or our Las Vegas shop to the convention center at roughly 10, is a different number than a cross-country haul both ways. Drayage, the dock-to-booth handling, is billed by weight and doesn't move with distance. We budget it with you rather than pretend proximity erases it.
- Recovery time. When something goes wrong during setup, and on a big enough build it occasionally does, we can put a replacement part on a truck and have it at the dock the same day.
- Storage that isn't a round trip. Between shows your exhibit lives near the venues it keeps returning to, instead of crossing the country twice a year to sit in a warehouse.
Full-Service Booth Design & Build in Southern California and Las Vegas
Two facilities on the West Coast, both ours. Fabrication, graphics and show services sit close to the convention centers our clients exhibit in.
Our 50,000 sq ft Los Angeles County headquarters, where design, engineering, CNC fabrication, grand-format printing and pre-show staging happen.
Visit the facilityA 22,000 sq ft show-services facility covering storage, staging and installation support, so your exhibit travels across town instead of across the country.
Visit the facilityHow Your Exhibit Actually Gets Built
Common Questions About Working With an Exhibit Company
A trade show exhibit company designs the booth, engineers and builds it, produces the graphics, ships it, installs and dismantles it on site, and stores it between shows. A single-source exhibit house does all of that in-house instead of subcontracting each piece to a different vendor.
Cost tracks booth size, structure type and how much of the program you want managed. A 10x10 portable display sits at the low end, a double-deck island with integrated technology at the high end. Our proposals list every cost line by line, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Rent when your schedule is unpredictable, when you're testing a new booth size, or when you exhibit once or twice a year. Buy when you exhibit repeatedly and want an asset that reconfigures across shows. Our rental exhibits carry the same custom look as a purchased build.
Plan on three to four months for a custom build, longer if it carries integrated technology or a double-deck structure. Rentals and portable displays move faster. If your show is closer than that, call anyway. We can usually tell you inside a day whether the date is reachable.
Yes. Every custom exhibit is fully assembled and staged in our warehouse for your sign-off before it goes out. What you approve in the rendering is what you see on the staging floor, and what you walk into at the show.
Yes. We build for brands headquartered across the country. The West Coast footprint matters most when the show itself is here, which for most exhibitors is where the biggest dates on the calendar already sit.
Start Your Trade Show Exhibit
Tell us the show, the booth space and roughly where the budget sits. You will get a design direction and a proposal with every cost and service listed. Call 866.780.1555 or send the details through our contact form.
