Book 2–3 months ahead for a modular stand, 3–6 months for a custom stand and 6–12 months for a double-deck. That leaves time for design rounds, venue approvals and production without rush costs. We can move faster when we have to: we built over 600sqm for COP26 on just over three weeks’ notice, but it's not something to be done lightly!
Exhibition Stand Contractors Manchester
Exhibition Stand Builders Manchester
Modular Exhibition Stands Manchester
We are the exhibition design and build agency behind Tesla, Lego, Samsung and 200+ more brands.
Exhibition Stand Builders Manchester
From Brief to Show Floor
Most of our Manchester builds go into Manchester Central, the city's convention and exhibition centre, home to shows like Northern Restaurant & Bar. We know the halls, the build-up windows and the venue paperwork, and we handle all of it, from rigging plans to electrics orders, so your team arrives to a finished stand.
Manchester Exhibitions
Industry Leading Exhibition Stand Builders in Manchester
15+
Years of conscious stand building
500+
Stand design and builds
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Expert Team
Our creative stand builder team in Manchester make it their mission to get to know your business and brief inside out. This is how we can create an exhibition stand for you which is not only visually striking, but also accurately reflects the personality of your brand. With our design expertise and your inside industry knowledge, you can be filled with confidence & excitement attending trade events in the future.
We pride ourselves on the fact that all of the stands we build are completely unique, however to get a taste of what we have produced before, check out our portfolio page here.
Creation offer an end to end solution, meaning that we can design, project manage & build your exhibition stand for your show in Manchester. All work is managed in house, meaning that all of our clients receive the same high quality service.
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What our clients say about working with us
Thank you so much for your support with our stand. Matt Engall is also fab!
Lucy Head of Commercial, OpusApeiro
Thank you for your support and for creating such an awesome stand!
Jo Marketing Manager, Neat
A big thank you for everything Creation did... it went so well and once again it was a pleasure to work with Creation. The stand looked brilliant!
Eliza Marketing Director, Lightfoot
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Our process
The Creation Way
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Discovery
A creative session to craft a design brief together by digging into your brand, your objectives, and what winning looks like. Our design team will become fluent in your business and ready to design an show-stopping exhibition stand
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Strategy
Your project needs a plan, not just a look. We match your objectives to maximise delegate engagement, ensuring visitor flow, & staff positioning to maximise ROI. Mapping a sustainable approach with the design strategy, all before a sketch goes on paper
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Creative
Bringing your brand to life with full 3D design concepts. Ensuring a wow-factor stand design - every sightline, material and moment earns its place
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Finalise
Present, refine, sign-off. Working with you to refine the design for until it is perfect. Materials, lighting, graphics, and tech integration locked in before production starts
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Delivery
Production kicks off. Design and build handled end to end - manufacture, logistics, venue liaison, on-site install. We take all the stress out of exhibiting, managing the entire process from start to finish
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Insights
After the show, we debrief. Whether to store and reuse the stand for next year. What worked the best, what to experiment with in the future. Setting the direction for the next one - whether that's a new concept, reinstalling the same, or combining the previous stand with new elements
FAQs
Yes. We prepare and submit the venue paperwork, including stand plans, risk assessments and method statements and order rigging and electrics through the organiser. We do this at venues like ExCeL London, the NEC and Olympia London, so your team doesn’t have to.
Modular exhibition stands start from around £7,000, with the final price depending on stand size, design complexity, graphics and features such as lighting, counters and multimedia. Because the core structure is reused across shows, the cost per event falls significantly compared with building a new custom stand each time.
Yes. We can store your stand at our facilities between shows and reconfigure it for different stand sizes, which cuts the cost of every event after the first. Modular stands are designed for this from the start.
Yes. Manchester Central is the North West's main exhibition and convention centre, and we build stands there for clients from Manchester and across the UK. We handle the venue paperwork, rigging plans and electrics orders, and our crew stays on site from build-up to breakdown.