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Thank you to all of the marine industry
professionals who joined us

The marine industry moved forward together at IBEX 2011

From the exhibit halls to the seminar rooms, IBEX solidified its position as the leading marine technology and trade event in North America. The2011 conference sent attendees and exhibitors alike home with new knowledge, new sales leads and new business opportunities for the 2012 building and buying seasons.

Nearly 4,700 decision-making marine professionals were on-site for:

100,000+ square feet of exhibit space featuring thousands of never-before-seen technologies
60+ new exhibitors
90+ seminars, including the most impressive array of technical education ever offered
Three full days of one-on-one business discussions and price negotiations

Save The Date for IBEX 2012

We’re already making plans for enhancing IBEX 2012 — mark your calendar now, and plan to join us:

IBEX 2012: October 2–4, 2012
IBEX 2013: September 17–19, 2013
IBEX 2014: September 16–18, 2014

If you missed IBEX 2011, check out what some of your colleagues had to say about their experience.

IBEX was fantastic for the National Marine Representatives Association. We had excellent traffic at our booth. Our workshop on harnessing the power of independent reps was a success. The attendees were happy with the content and the IBEX team was very helpful along the way. We’re already planning bigger things for IBEX 2012.”

~ Chris Kelly, Waters & David Co. and NMRA president

We were pleasantly surprised at the strong International presence at this years IBEX. Turning Point closed deals that added distributors in Germany, Puerto Rico, and Turkey during the show, we had meaningful discussions with a new Japanese customer, and we fielded serious inquiries from potential customers in South/Central America, the EU, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.”

~ Ron Bailey, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Turning Point Propellers

Our participation in IBEX 2011 was well worth the effort. We still feel confident that we could not have found a better venue than IBEX to expose our product to distributors and engine suppliers in the important North American market. IBEX was very important to us and we would definitively recommend it to any European company with ambitions to promote their product in North America (even though we also got interested vistiors to our booth from Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Caribbean and Peru as well! ) We are very pleased with IBEX and its management. We really appreciated the professionalism and helpfulness of you and your fellow colleagues!”

~ Mattias Brundell, Brunco AB, SWEDEN

IBEX has been and remains important to us because during these last few years of a slower than average economy, our experience has been that the quality of attendees has been much higher. By quality I mean that the persons visiting our booth were in key decision making positions. We are seeing more owner's and top executives. And the value of seeing our customers, getting to say thank you and getting to say hello to old friends is priceless.”

~ Ronnie Free, Frees Inc.

We had an excellent show and are taking more space next year. Chris Craft made the decision at this show to use our product and Brunswick is thinking about it!”

~ SmartPlug, Ken Smith

Business was non-stop day one and day two. We generated more leads than expected and to-date, we’re estimating $200,000 to $300,000 of new business!”

~ Kommerling, Kent Janeway