Comments on: CES 2009: Three Booths and a Clapping Toy Monkey?

By: Coast Exhibit Toy Industry Trade Show

Coast Exhibit Toy Industry Trade Show — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:25:39 +0000

[...] CES 2009: Three Booths and a Clapping Toy Monkey? | John … [...]

By: CEA on CES Attendance: “The Right People” — Just Fewer of Them | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:28:54 +0000

[...] The International Consumer Electronics Show didn’t break any attendance records this year. In fact, it didn’t even break the projected attendance figure of 130,000 that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) offers up every year. Missed it by a pretty wide margin, actually. Amazingly, CES isn’t immune to the worst recession in 50 years. [...]

By: CES 2009: Sad Guys on Trade Show Floors | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:41:51 +0000

[...] to the absence of Seagate (STX), Logitech (LOGI), Cisco (CSCO), Philips, Yahoo and Sanyo — all of whom have abandoned plans to exhibit on the show floor. That said, the overall number of exhibitors will remain the same as last year at about [...]

By: Jason Oxman

Jason Oxman — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:54:40 +0000

John,

It’s a challenging time for all business segments in this country, and the consumer electronics industry is certainly not immune to the current economy. But we should look at the facts regarding the 2009 International CES to keep things in perspective. Three booths? Hardly — we’ll have 2,700 at CES this year. You note five companies whose business plans caused them to change the type of space they use at CES. But more important is that they are all still buying space at the show to meet with buyers (the average CES attendee has 12 meetings while attending the show) and demonstrate new products. It might be even more interesting to your readers to explore the more than 300 companies that are exhibiting on the CES show floor for the first time in 2009.

And as for the toy monkey — it’s a cute picture, but if we’re talking about CES, you should put up photos of the VCR, DVD player, HDTV, HD radio, OLED, and any other technology innovation you can think of — because they were all rolled out at CES. Anyone with serious interest in the technology industry understands the importance of attending CES this year — the next generation of technology will be on view at our show.

John, we look forward to welcoming you to CES on January 8-11. And when you can’t find a toy monkey on the show floor, come find me — I’ll gladly buy you one at a local toy store.

Jason Oxman
Senior Vice President, Industry Affairs
Consumer Electronics Association

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:23:08 +0000

What Cisco said: On our Q1 FY ‘09 earnings call on November 5 we announced that we will be reducing expenses for FY09 by over $1B from our annualized expense run rate, given the challenging macroeconomic environment. We are targeting reductions in travel and discretionary-related expenses, including offsite meetings, outside services, equipment, events, trade shows, prototypes, marketing and other activities. Given this focus on reducing costs, we are modifying our participation in the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2009.

What it means:
We’re going to Vegas and we’re happy to let CES have us speaking and getting free publicity. But, rather than fork out millions for a booth we’re camping at the Venetian so we can get our gamble on, save a few bucks for the sexy Cirque du Soleil show (better than booth gazing). We’d also like to get more intimate with some of the Vegas entertainment aspects so the money we save will pay for that. So scru you CES and thanks for the free PR for us at Cisco. Always happy to route you.