The NEC in Birmingham is the biggest exhibition venue in the UK, and for a lot of brands it is where the most important show of the year happens. Mercer crews are there regularly, delivering stands our clients rebook season after season. With everything in-house, from design and production to our own installation teams, we take a venue that intimidates first-time exhibitors and make it feel routine.
Around twenty interconnected halls, its own road network, marshalled traffic, timed delivery slots and build schedules that vary by organiser: the NEC runs to its own rules, and they are not optional. Contractors who turn up unprepared burn their build hours at the gate.
Because our teams work the venue regularly, across its year-round calendar of trade and consumer shows, the vehicle booking, hall access and organiser paperwork are handled before anyone sets off down the M42, and the on-site time gets spent building your stand rather than negotiating logistics.
Our in-house designers plan for the reality: strong visibility from the aisles, clear visitor flow, proper meeting space and product displays that work in a hall where your neighbours are competing hard for the same footfall.
Initial concepts arrive in as little as 5 working days, with a free 3D visual included in every quote and comprehensive CAD renders approved before production. Every stand we build for the NEC is engineered on the reusable beMatrix frame system, so the stand that works at this show can reconfigure for a different floor space at your next one, with your branding kept consistent from event to event.
Your team just turns up ready to exhibit; the build, the quality checks and the breakdown are all ours. Structures return to stock for reuse, so nothing your stand is made of ends up in the skip on breakdown night.
The whole project runs through one team. Production and large-format print happen at our own facility, quality is checked before dispatch, and on-site construction is carried out by our own installation crews inside the venue’s build windows, with a dedicated project manager and a live portal keeping drawings, approvals and schedules visible throughout. Plenty of stand companies serving the NEC broker out production or install; as your exhibition stand contractor at the NEC, we do neither, and build day runs the way it should.
Tell us the show, your stand size and objectives, and we will come back with a design direction, a delivery plan and an honest price.
