Exhibitor Testimonals about GME 2006

"This year sees a landmark change for the Goldfields Mining Expo with the introduction of a great partnership between Kalgoorlie Boulder Chamber of Commerce and Reed Exhibitions which has really brought Goldfields Mining Expo into the twenty-first century and brought a whole new level of expertise to our exhibition."

Kitty Prodonovich - KBCCI

"The Goldfields Mining Expo is vitally important for the industry of the Goldfields.  We are about mining and this is a wonderful exhibition of those in the industry from a supply basis to those that are actually doing the digging.  I'm just so pleased that Reed have got into the act and I know that two years from now that they will be organising the show and these exhibitors will be back again."

Barry House - FEDERAL MEMBER OF KALGOORLIE

"The Meet the Buyer set up gives you the opportunity to see what is going on the industry so yeah it's been very good."

Brett Morgan - RUSSELL MINERAL EQUIPMENT

"We had a flurry of enquiries. We are potentially looking at over 200 million dollars worth of sales."

Ehsan Haque - COBRA EQUIPMENT

"This years GME as far we are concerned on our stand has been excellent.  We have had some very good leads  the quality of the people through has been a lot higher than in previous years.  Reed Exhibitions I found to be extremely professional and have, I believe, lifted the profile of this show ten fold."

Vaughan Cranswick - TGE ENERGY SERVICES

"GME this year has been, this is our first time actually inside pavilion, we have always been outside, but its been fantastic, its been a good group of people, a different type of people and I think should succeed for OneSteel further down the track.  First time that Reed Exhibitions has been involved in the expo and we found them to be very professional."

Rob Weber - ONESTEEL

"I do know that a number of companies are setting up a possible agreement between Western Australia, Australia, India, China, and its as a consequence of meeting others with a similar objective and the small role we have in actually doing that introduction we believe is complementary to the relationship we have with Reeds."

Hugh Gallagher - KBCCI 

"So we have a real difference of speakers between the big operators, small contractors, small services and they come along here and they are very frank and open about their information and you can really find what's actually happening in the whole region."

Kitty Prodonovich - KBCCI

"A great forum for meeting your clients, especially clients that are 4, 5, 600 kilometres away because as you can appreciate that's a lot of  driving to go and meet them, and so forth, so this, this Forum here is great because they come to you and we get a lot out of it.  I have found the management excellent, very professional obviously it's their first one and they are still finding their feet in Kalgoorlie Boulder but they have done an excellent job and looked after people like Aggreko and it was very professionally done."

Ted Russell - AGGREKO

"This years show has been fine.  We had some good periods on the first day and yesterday afternoon was very very good for us so we had good quality people through and again people  that, some of these people we don't see from one show to the next , but we seem to catch up with them at the show, so its a good thing.  Reed Exhibitions involvement has been a good move.  I've been impressed with the information that has been supplied to us in the lead up to the show."

"I think the move to a 2 year show is a good thing.  Hopefully, what it will do is it will bring a lot of our competitors back."

Tom Greenham - KOMATSU AUSTRALIA

"The show has been good for us. It has passed our expectations of how many people we thought we would get through, I mean we planned for about  300 initially and so far we have had over 400 through this stand so we are very happy with it and we've think it has gone really well for our health organisation."

Peter Dimarco - GOLDFIELDS PIT STOP

"This is our first GME and certainly it has been quite successful for us.  With being at the show, we are now going to start up a flight school in Kalgoorlie and we've had 9 interested people if we could get a flight school started and we have  actually probably sold one helicopter which is quite good, it shows that come to the places like this and its certainly a good advantage for most companies around.   The Reed Exhibitions we have found to be absolutely brilliant to be honest with you. They have umm, I have talked to the promoter on setting the site up previously, we talked on how we needed the site set up cause obviously it's a little bit different to a normal stand sort of thing  with allowing a helicopter landing to take off.  The site was set up exactly how we talked to about it and also the security with people running around the site straight away and we have certainly had no hassles, its been a pleasure."

Richard Whitely - JANDAKOT HELICOPTERS

"The expo this year, 2006 has met more than what we expected out of it. The main difference is this year has been very professional its been very good. You know Reed has done everything we wanted is, nothing's too much problem, so yeah its been excellent. "

Corbin Andre - BOC MINING SUPPLIES

"Its been fantastic.  You know we have just been entertaining people, we've had really good fun, we had so many people come through to the stand and the crane and the blade, we've sold 3 blades, Brad sold 2 cranes that was about 1.6 million dollars worth which was just fantastic!"

Rob Nash - MINEPOWER

"Two years time, I just can't wait to see what 2008 GME brings.  Kalgoorlie Boulder is where it's all happening in the mining industry and we know that and most of our exhibitors know that too."

Kitty Prodonovich - KBCCI