National hardware show opens in Las Vegas
The 2008 National Hardware Show, an annual exhibition where manufacturers try to tempt retail buyers with their newest and best products, opens its doors today in Las Vegas. Three thousand exhibitors are showing off everything and anything you can ever imagine being sold in a hardware store—paint, ladders, caulk, tape, tools, cleaning supplies, lawn furniture—and many things you can't.
(Just take a look at the videos from the floor of last year's Hardware Show.) Some of the stuff on display is not ready for prime time, and may never make it beyond the prototype stage. Inventors are also here in droves, hawking their unusual wares in tiny booths with the keen desperation of folks who have tapped out every credit card in a gamble to strike it rich with a national retailer. Can you blame them? After all, this is Las Vegas.
Stay tuned for more posts from the Show.
Posted by Tom Baker | Categories: Hand Tools, Power Tools, Trade Shows, Yard & Garden | Permalink
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This hardware show also gives opportunity both to the business and the buyers. The business will have a chance to introduce and present their products which will then might lead to their familiarity to the buyers. Then for the buyers, they will have a chance to select from those products the best they thought to be.
Looks like a neat product. Good luck at the show.