David’s Blog

Thoughts from David, non specific to what we do, just a place to say what’s on my mind and to have a blether.

15 11, 2023

Cleaning and Sorting the Warehouse – November 2023

By |2023-11-15T14:49:46+00:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: David's Blog|Comments Off on Cleaning and Sorting the Warehouse – November 2023

It's mid November and we are winding down our stand building for the year...and what a year! Covid shutdown is a distant memory! At this time of the year I feel like our team can breathe a little easier and give ourselves a break, take 5 and do some cleaning!

3 02, 2023

January Done

By |2023-07-20T23:41:05+01:00February 3rd, 2023|Categories: David's Blog|0 Comments

It's all for my boys! Well that was epic! 1 month down and I feel that I need a weeks holiday! It seems in the events space that opportunities come in waves. Well I've been fighting and trying to keep on top of the wave these last 4 weeks. Getting a new productivity software into working order as the enquiries start flowing. Tricky! Getting in the region of 75 stand build enquiries in a month is like running as fast as Usain Bolt into Iron Mike Tysons right hook! When you're the person making the decisions it sometimes takes its toll. By [...]

30 01, 2023

Exhibition Stand Contractor, Glasgow, Scotland

By |2023-07-19T08:10:52+01:00January 30th, 2023|Categories: David's Blog|0 Comments

Following quickly on from my last post Redblu have also another string to our bow which we haven't told anybody about (because we are a small company without a marketing person) and we've been very busy post covid working. Excuses! Redblu is an exhibition stand contractor. So yes, we design and build our individual exhibition stand projects and deliver them across the UK. From 6sqm tiddlers to over 100sqm monsters. But....... We also deliver whole shows as an exhibition stand contractor. Like this big boys like Full Circle and GES (but on a much smaller scale) To date our biggest conference [...]

30 01, 2023

Boothbuilder Glasgow

By |2023-07-20T23:38:17+01:00January 30th, 2023|Categories: David's Blog|Tags: , , |0 Comments

I've got so set in my ways when describing what we do here at Redblu that I've lost track of the other ways of saying the same thing. Confused? Let me explain - I always say when asked what Redblu do is that we offer a variety of Creative Branding Solutions and we specialise in modular exhibition stands. Full service, from brief to delivery, including the 3d design, project management, logistics, installation and dismantle. Well that is fine for the UK customers, but not from abroad. Our friends from overseas describe exhibition stands as booths. So it follows that we at Redblu [...]

6 04, 2022

ASIT in Aberdeen

By |2022-04-06T23:34:10+01:00April 6th, 2022|Categories: David's Blog|Tags: |0 Comments

We were back up at the P&J live in Aberdeen recently. Couple of stand builds to do and just realised it is so good to be back working on stand design and build again. Last September was the start of a year and a half of anxiety but we weathered the storm and managed to get through it quite well and now we are cooking with the proverbial gas! ASIT Exhibition Stands We live chatting about all things exhibition stands, so get in touch and have a chat with me.

6 04, 2022

Edinburgh Gin @ The Ideal Home Show

By |2023-02-20T16:27:44+00:00April 6th, 2022|Categories: David's Blog|Tags: |0 Comments

Edinburgh Gin @ The Ideal Home Show Another new customer on board and this was the first little stand we've produced for Ian Macleod Distillers with their Edinburgh Gin Brand. Pretty simple 4m wide backwall with tension fabric graphics, counters with storage for all their sampling stock and the usual services required to deliver the stand. We re-used their shelving display unit and gave it a makeover. All good, client delighted and onto the next event, Food and Drink Expo in Birmingham.

2 10, 2021

Shell Schemes are Changing

By |2023-07-20T23:39:22+01:00October 2nd, 2021|Categories: David's Blog, Industry News|Tags: , , |0 Comments

I built my first exhibition stand over 20 years ago. It was a system called Deltamatrix. Fixed frame system that went together extremely quickly and we made some pretty cool acrylic graphics which fit neatly into the system. Well over time that company split up and became 2. Aluvision and beMatrix. I don't know the story behind it but they both had a very similar system which was way quicker to put up than the other modular systems like Octanorm shell. More recently they both developed a channel which accepts fabric. These graphics meant there were no joins over panels. I always [...]

30 09, 2021

Exhibitions are back

By |2023-07-20T23:44:49+01:00September 30th, 2021|Categories: David's Blog|Tags: , |0 Comments

Well it's been a long time coming but EXHIBITIONS ARE BACK! Hallelujah! Nobody could have imagined when the government locked us all down in March 2020 that everything would change so much. However, change it has and life won't be the same again. Our love of exhibiting has remained and through the tough times we tried to stay as positive as we could. It's tough staying positive when there's nothing but bad news and negativity. I wonder how you all coped? So we've now been allowed to open back up and start our business proper again. We're back into the factory and [...]

11 08, 2020

Window Graphics

By |2020-08-13T23:33:42+01:00August 11th, 2020|Categories: David's Blog|Tags: |0 Comments

I had a walk around Livingston Designer Outlet and the Centre on Sunday past. Actually quite enjoyed the experience as it was quiet, easy to park and easy to get in and out of shops and with lockdown I hadn't had to endure the shops for a few months. Well, while I was walking around with my family trying to keep my 2 monkeys entertained while the better half browsed it was interesting to take note of what the retailers were doing to draw in customers. So you've got The Body Shop using hanging posters in their [...]

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