The ISSA Tradeshow is Tennant Company’s largest tradeshow of the year. In the past, they had used external agencies for all the advertising and booth graphics. This year, I presented concepts and beat out two other agencies for the design. Tennant wanted to be more customer focused, as usually there is a lot of emphasis on machines and features. The “Driven by You” theme placed more importance on the customer’s needs and how everything Tennant does is driven by providing solutions. I designed all the graphic panels, interior and exterior conference room graphics, signage for the indoor and outdoor space, print and web advertisements, and an email and landing page with booth layout. Tennant was able to partner with a flooring company, so I also had the opportunity to design floor graphics to coordinate with the booth.

We ended up saving over $50,000 in agency costs, and the design was extremely well received. Leads were up from the year before by almost 23%, there were 33 meetings held with Distributors and Strategic Accounts in the conference room area, and they ended up selling all the floor machines to a local distributor, which saved $7k in shipping back machines.