Exhibition News Spring 2023 | Page 26

INDEPENDENT ORGANISERS

Media 10 at 20

As they mark 20 years organising some of the world ’ s most iconic exhibitions , Media 10 chairman Lee Newton looks back at the company ’ s successes , and tells EN Editor Emily Wallin about the freedoms independence has given them and the lessons they have learned .
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A the 20 years since Media

10 started out in the bare rooms of a partially derelict house in Epping , Essex , but the ethos remains the same for the organisers behind some of the UK ’ s most iconic exhibitions .
Over the decades they have welcomed more than
10 million visitors to their
shows including Grand
Designs Live , Clerkenwell Design Week , 100 % Optical , Cake and Bake , UK Construction Week and the world ’ s oldest exhibition , the 115-year-old Ideal Home Show . Through it all they are still “ fiercely creative , doggedly determined and resolutely independent ,” they say .
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