Show Organisers Unveil A New Look For Next Year's Exhibition

13 September 2011

Exciting details about next year's show will be unveiled today, including a new look for the 2012 event, and sales will go live with the opening of the floorplan for stand bookings.

With this year's show set to be an unrivalled success - with over 650 exhibitors and 72 seminar sessions with over 90 speakers - businesses in the resource efficiency and waste management industry are being invited to book their exhibition stands for 2012 on a first come first served basis.

The 2012 event will take place from 11 to 13 September 2012 at the NEC and will have new branding to reflect the successful partnership between Emap and CIWM. 'Resource Efficiency and Waste Management Solutions' will be the new strapline and a new logo will illustrate the wider target audience that the event attracts.

Event director Gerry Sherwood said: "Following the successful merger with CIWM's Futuresource for 2011, we want to make the 2012 exhibition even bigger and even better. We are opening sales early this year and we're advising exhibitors to act quickly to secure the best stand space.

"We're expecting the 2012 event to include several significant new features and even more leading speakers in our seminar theatres. We hope to see even more visitors and exhibitors here next year sharing the latest in resource efficiency and waste management."

Further announcements about plans for 2012 are expected throughout the show. For information, visit the sales team at the show on stand F14 in hall 19 or visit the website at www.rwmexhibition.com/pr. You can also keep up to date with the latest news and opinions by following @RWM_with_CIWM and using the Twitter hashtag #RWMwithCIWM.

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Notes to Editors:

1. On 13-15 September 2011 at the NEC Birmingham, RWM in partnership with CIWM will represent the waste management industry's premier event following the merger of the Futuresource and RWM exhibitions in December 2010 in response to industry-wide demand.

2. RWM in partnership with CIWM attracts over 650 exhibitors. The event covers the following product/service areas within the industry: specialist recycling; services and solutions; energy and water; machinery and equipment; vehicles and plant, and banks, bins and containers. It is targeted at professionals within both public and private sectors, including: senior management decision makers (including managing directors, chief executive officers and chief operating officers); heads of recycling/waste; environmental managers; recycling managers; commercial waste managers; plant managers; transport managers; facilities managers, and consultants.

3. Emap Connect houses the UK's biggest exhibitions portfolio plus the world's most powerful advertising festival, Cannes Lions. Exhibition brands include RWM, Spring Fair, Autumn Fair, Premier Kids, Interbuild and BETT. Emap Connect facilitates face-to-face interaction for business communities, either to buy and sell things, to share knowledge or to scrutinise new business ideas. See www.emap.com

4. CIWM is the lead professional body for the sustainable resources and waste management sector representing over 7000 individuals in the UK and overseas. Established in 1898, CIWM is non profit-making and dedicated to promotion of professional competence - both in and around the sector - through best practice guidance, developing educational and training initiatives, and providing information on key waste-related issues. See www.ciwm.co.uk

5. ESA is the major trade association at the heart of the sustainable resources and waste management sector. See www.esauk.org

For further information contact:

Richard Truman or Rachel Ferguson

Pelican Public Relations Ltd

Tel: 01457 820807

Fax: 01457 820824

E-mail richard.truman@pelicanpr.co.uk or rachel.ferguson@pelicanpr.co.uk

Issued on behalf of RWM in partnership with CIWM