The ABBT exhibition in London last week has been hailed as a success despite seeing a fall of 15 per cent in visitor numbers from last year.

ABTT show battles through tube strike

Paul Milligan, 16 June 2009

The ABTT exhibition in London last week has been hailed as a success despite seeing a fall of 15 per cent in visitor numbers from last year. The drop has been blamed on the worst tube strike in 12 years which gripped London for the two days of the show. Pre-registrations for the event had actually been up 10 per cent on 2008.

Roger Fox, show director, commented: 'We were delighted by the attendance at this year's show and very happy to have maintained our position as a leading event in the industry's calendar despite the tube strike. We were only 15 per cent down overall on last year's visitor figures, which proved that people battled against the odds to attend...We're looking forward to an exciting 2010 Show on 16 and 17 June which will follow the third London Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference.'

New exhibitors this year included Yamaha, Midas Prosound, Cadac, Schnick Schnack, L’Acoustics, Naotek, Terralec, SSE Audio, Red Square Audio, and Kotobuki Corporation.