Testimonials

Why did you participate as an exhibitor at the Boligmesse?

As the only Obs Bygg store here in southern Norway, we wanted to mark our position and strengthen our own brand: Obs Bygg. The housing fair is something many people are familiar with, and several of us have also been visitors in the past. It is an important meeting place for the housing industry, and it is a perfect arena to meet new people and potential customers who are working on both large and small projects. It also gives us a good opportunity to market ourselves and let people get to know us as employees of the store. We want people to come to us because the employees are fantastic, because we are good at prices, and because it is safe to shop with us.

How did you prepare for the fair?

In preparation for the fair, there was a lot of planning to get everything in place, from which product groups we should bring, to getting our partners on board, how our stand should look, and how we should present Obs Bygg in the best possible way. It was a big but very fun and exciting process – which really gave us a taste for more. We felt that we managed to create a small Obs Bygg store at the fair, which was also the vision when we started planning.

Has the fair lived up to your expectations, and if so, in what way?

We naturally had faith that it was going to be good, but it turned out better than we had imagined. The number of visitors who came to our stand was beyond all expectations, and there was a huge buzz, especially on Saturday and Sunday. There was a queue to sign up for wardrobes, a flood of orders for windows, doors, and garage doors. And, we did well on items such as high-pressure cleaners, tools, heat pumps, and electronic door locks. With over 8,000 visitors to the fair, I think both we and the organizers can say that we were very satisfied with the Boligmesse in Sørlandshallen 2023. We got to talk to other exhibitors, organizers, old and new customers. It was a very successful implementation from A to Z. And we experienced the cooperation with Compass Fairs as professional, personal, and easy.

Maja Kristin Hystad

Department Manager Store

Obs! Bygg Sørlandsparken

Argeo participated in Oceanology International in London, March 2022. This major event is a central meeting place for 500 exhibitors showcasing the latest in marine technology to nearly 8,000 visitors from around the world.

Compass Fairs designed, built and installed our new stand. We were in safe hands throughout the process, thanks to a skilled team with solid experience. All orders were delivered in a short time and according to plan. Credibility, quality and flexibility describe our experience of working with Compass Fairs. And then it was extra fun to get lots of praise for our great stand from customers and other partners.

Elisabeth Andenæs

Marketing and Communications Manager

Argeo - Digitizing the Ocean Space

Our cooperation with Compass Fairs enables us to be competitive in an arena where all our competitors are specialized exhibition centres, while we are a multifunctional arena. Compass Fairs is a total supplier that we dare to trust, and over and over again they show that they can turn around quickly, be practical and solution-oriented. Compass Fairs know trade fairs – as easy as that!

Gullik Jensen

CEO

Telenor Arena

We carried out Elkjøp Campus earlier this year, this is perhaps the Nordic region’s largest internal trade fair in electronics and homes. In total, almost 5,000 employees participated in this fair over 4 weeks. In this connection, we had a collaboration with Compass Fairs around the construction and facilitation of our exhibition area with Epoq kitchen from Elkjøp. Epoq’s exhibition area was 250m2 and was an extremely complicated exhibition stand with different floors, walls, lighting, 30 meter LCD screen etc. I must say that I am very impressed with how Compass Fairs carried out the construction of this, everything was as planned and we got all the help we needed throughout the construction and implementation. The collaboration was absolutely impeccable, we look forward to next year’s Campus.

Rune Eriksen

Sales Director Kitchen & Interior

Elkjøp

ABK has collaborated with Compass Fairs on its new trade fair concept and is very pleased with the delivery. The designers and craftsmen have managed to realize our visions in addition to providing good input for optimizing visibility and design. We have experienced a professional delivery at all the fairs the stand has been at so far and look forward to further cooperation.

Ailin Toften

Fairs & event coordinator

ABK AS

We have very good experiences with Compass Fairs. They are good at working together and everything went according to plan. I am responsible for the trade fair for the entire event, and it went smoothly with good partners.

Vigdis Vedde Fiskerstrand

Chain coordinator

Byggfag

Compass Fairs was the total supplier for the sales fair during the Kingsland Oslo Horse Show 2016, an assignment they have performed in an excellent way 5 years in a row. It is a pleasure to work with people who are so fast and service-oriented, and who fix big and small. The flexibility that Compass Fairs shows in solving all possible special requests from our exhibitors is an incredibly important service when arranging such a large event. We are very happy and give our best recommendations.

Morten Aasen

General manager

Oslo Horse Show

Trondheim Spektrum has collaborated with Compass Fairs since 1997. First as tenants for the “Make Your Home Better” fairs, since then the collaboration has become more extensive. Compass Fairs is today the technical supplier for all our projects here at the house, including Nor-Fishing and Aqua-Nor, Norway’s largest trade fairs in fisheries and aquaculture. We experience Compass Fairs as very professional. They deliver at the right time and price, and have a very professional and service-minded personnel.

Ola Eriksen

CEO

Trondheim Spektrum

After working with the technical fitters in Compass Fairs AS for a number of years via Boligmessen, I can with all my heart give them the best recommendations: They are a fantastic bunch, and I have never seen a work capacity like that. Each and every one of them is equally friendly, efficient, comfortable, adaptable and competent. They can do anything, in fact it’s amazing what they can do in such a short time!

Tore Reite Larsen

Senior consultant / trade fair manager

Hedalm Anebyhus AS

Assignment: Plan, design and build a stand for the HVAC days 2016

Compass Fairs AS was commissioned to design and build our stand for the HVAC days 2016. Although the draft of the stand was a bit «boring» in the beginning, compared to glossy 3D drawings from other players in the market, Compass Fairs picked this up again during process and finally delivered a product 100% at our request. When the price eventually also became about as budgeted, we can not help but give a thumbs up for the job. Feedback from colleagues and customers underlines this impression.

Erlend Klæboe

Regional Manager

Camfil AS

This is the second time we use Compass Fairs, and we experienced the collaboration as even better this time than last time. We were late with our order, but got very good help and I was always confident that everything would work out, which it also did. This time we also got help designing the stand, and Compass Fairs’ Expo Designer Andreas was all the way quick to provide feedback. The finished result was our finest stand ever. Overall, we are very satisfied with the follow-up, the result and the price we agreed on.

Trine Larsen

Market manager

Lindab

We have used Compass Fairs’ services for many years, and have always been very satisfied. Compass Fairs are easy to communicate with and they arrange most things with short notice. For Nor-Fishing 2018, they did everything for us, from design of stand to delivery of equipment. We received very close and good follow-up, and several times had people visit our stand who made sure that everything was in order and that we had everything we needed.

Helge Bullgård

General manager

Redox