Vendors showed off the latest and greatest in sports merchandise and tailgating accessories Wednesday, highlighted by a custom $30,000 Raiders watch.
Conventions
Conventions are big business in Las Vegas. • Expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a $1.4 billion project, will keep the city on pace to compete for the top shows. • CES tops the list. (See Top 10 below, and follow the link to a full list.)
Top 10 Las Vegas conventions
(ranked by attendance)1. CES — Consumer Technology Association
2. NAB — National Association of Broadcasters
3. MAGIC — Marketplace Spring Show
4. SHOT Show — Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show
5. World of Concrete
6. International Builders Show
7. Las Vegas Market (winter)
8. Las Vegas Market (summer)
9. ASD Market Week
10. (tie) Mr. Olympia.
10. (tie) PMMI — Pack Expo Las Vegas
See the full list of Las Vegas conventions.
“I wanted to lay a perfect wall,” said Cole Stamper, the newly minted champion of the Spec Mix Bricklayer 500 at the World of Concrete. “Straight, plumb level, straight and perfect — and that’s what it was.”
For the 23rd time, the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show — or SHOT Show — is welcoming thousands of industry professionals to Las Vegas this week. It expects to draw over 40,000 attendees.
Organizers expect more people to attend this year’s show, which opened Tuesday, than were at last year’s event and that numbers of attendees will be closer to those seen at pre-pandemic events.
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World of Concrete, the construction trade show that kicked off pandemic-era conventions in Las Vegas last summer, returns to the city next week.
Nearly 1,000 unopened boxed meals from Consumer Electronics Show were given to nonprofits with community meal services on last Friday.
Executives from Samsung Electronics were returned to South Korea on two charter flights from Las Vegas and health officials can’t confirm if infections occurred at CES.
While the more than 2,300 booths were spread across several venues on the Las Vegas Strip, some were bound to get more traffic than others. Check out five booths that turned heads on the trade show floor.
For the first time ever, cars raced head to head at speeds of up to 160 mph in the Indy Autonomous Challenge at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Massive tech convention smaller this year, but still big on innovation
The remaining Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Self Test kits that were given out free at CES are being donated to the Southern Nevada Health District for public distribution.
The omicron variant of COVID-19 was believed to be the reason less than a quarter of the usual CES attendance was in Las Vegas for the shortened three-day tech show.
International participants took elaborate steps to arrive in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participating in this year’s CES show was key to their businesses’ goals.
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