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With the FIT Show now only weeks away, Paul Godwin, Managing Director of FIT Events Ltd. talks to Glass News about FIT’s ‘Defining the Industry’ marketing campaign and whether the show may highlight the industry’s Next Big Thing.
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Writing this just a couple of days after Tim Peake was shot into space, I realise that commencement of my own countdown is hardly comparable. However, it will occupy more of my time and activity than the International Space Station during the next few weeks… In the way of the cliché ‘time heals’ I have now rid myself of the tendency to say ‘Glassex’ whenever I meant to refer to ‘FIT’. Although I usually caught a Tourette-like outburst it was an irritating although perhaps unsurprising hangover from the dozen or more years that I worked on FIT’s forerunner and around it for much longer. I am delighted to say that I was spared the years of its death throes after being replaced by a dream team tasked with giving the 30+ years-old show CPR. The cure for my outbursts happily coincides with the firm and unequivocal establishment of The Fabricator Installer Trade Show as a modern institution of the UK window, door and conservatory industry. Although the event was greeted with open arms and with few if any serious detractors from the outset, after two highly successful outings and just weeks away from the next, The FIT Show is well and truly here to stay.
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I was asked for my thoughts and aspirations for April’s FIT Show, which once again will take up residence at The International Centre, Telford, in itself another unexpected successful outcome of FIT. Although Telford itself has struggled to find a place in my heart the Centre has. It has provided an excellent and perfectly formed home for the early years of The FIT Show and, backed by a management who are the living embodiment of great customer care, it has done us proud. As we move on through the calendar, we put the final touches into place for the ‘Defining the Industry’ marketing campaign of which I may feel, once again, justifiably proud. Against the moody backdrop of the 2014 campaign this one is fresh, happy and enthusiastic again, featuring people that are the embodiment of this incurably optimistic industry.
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