Grapevine · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Grapevine

Resort-venue exhibiting, next to a global airport.

Custom exhibition stands for Gaylord Texan events and Grapevine’s corporate calendar — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. Your delegation lands at DFW and is at the venue in minutes; your stand is already standing.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Grapevine price.

0Customs forms, carnets or ocean freight
500+Projects delivered nationwide
24 hrQuote turnaround, any time zone
1Project manager, brief to dismantle
Our work

Builds that meet a resort venue’s standard

Grapevine’s calendar runs through the Gaylord Texan — corporate summits, association meetings and partner conferences where the audience is curated and the finish expectations are hotel-grade. Everything below came out of our own shop: designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed before shipping. What you approve from abroad is what lands on the floor.

Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.

The international decision

A ballroom build has no place for ocean crates

Resort-venue exhibiting compresses everything: freight arrives through lifts and padded corridors on scheduled windows, installs run overnight, and oversized crates are a liability before they’re a cost. An ocean-shipped stand adds customs and two freight legs to a venue category that punishes bulk by design.

Build on this side, to the venue’s rhythm. Your design language carries over from photos or CAD, fabricated to US materials and electrical code, crated for corridors rather than containers — on one fixed USD number.

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Nothing crosses a border

No carnets, no brokerage, no duty questions, no crate in clearance while your show opens. Fabricated, trucked and installed inside one country, on one fixed number.

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US electrical from the start

Overseas components routinely fail US floor inspection — voltage, plugs, certification marks. Everything we wire is US code from the first cable.

03

Your design, translated

Existing stand drawings become a Grapevine build: imperial dimensions, your show’s height and rigging rules, forced changes flagged at render stage.

04

Crated for corridors

Resort builds get engineered for freight lifts and overnight windows from the start — modular, padded-route-friendly, and quiet to install.

The US show floor, translated

Three terms that decide a Grapevine budget

Exhibitors arriving from Europe, Asia or Latin America meet a venue system here that has no equivalent at home. The full six-term glossary lives on our Las Vegas exhibition stand page; these are the three that bite hardest here.

Drayage

No equivalent outside North America

The venue’s fee for moving freight from dock to stand space, billed by weight. Unavoidable for everyone, forecastable for anyone honest — we price the line against your actual stand before you commit and file at advance rates.

Show labour

≈ Appointed contractors, per show rules

What exhibitors may build themselves on a Texas floor is set by each show’s regulations, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price carries the crews and supervision, so there’s nothing for you to source.

Feet, not metres

Your 3×6 m is their 10×20

US floor plans sell in feet, and space contracts follow. The pricing table below carries both units — quote your space in whichever your contract uses.

Grapevine pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Grapevine, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.

Fixed pricing · Grapevine · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$13,000 – $15,500Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$20,000 – $24,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$31,000 – $35,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$33,000 – $38,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$38,500 – $49,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$60,500 – $71,500Island. Flagship, double-deck capable.
In the fixed price Design & build
  • Stand design in 3D, revised until approved — free of charge
  • Fabrication in our own shop, to US electrical code
  • Graphics production, mounting and QC
  • Flooring, furniture, lighting
  • Screens, mounts and AV hardware
Logistics & service
  • Complete pre-assembly with photo approval before shipping
  • Round-trip freight to your Grapevine venue
  • Supervised install and dismantle crews
  • COI, EAC and show-services paperwork
  • A single project manager, reachable in your working hours
Billed by the show, not by us

The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the stand — no vendor anywhere can legitimately “include” them. We estimate each line against your actual stand before you commit, then file the orders inside the advance-rate window.

  • Stand space itself
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily stand cleaning
  • Internet
The ocean invoice

Price the crossing before you price the build

Even at ballroom scale the crossing doesn’t pay: crating, two freight legs, customs, handling on the loaded weight, and crews decoding a metric kit against an overnight window. A 3×6 m build, both ways:

Flying your build to Grapevine
Refurbishment & export crating$2,500
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $6,400
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,000
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $3,200
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $4,700
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $1,800
Spent on logistics, not the build$20,600
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
3×6 m (10×20) custom stand, fixed$20,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$20,000
Photo-verified before it ships

On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical service, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s own tariffed charges, billed to every exhibitor whoever builds. The difference is the weight the drayage gets billed on, and which side of the comparison forecast those lines before you signed.

The crossing costs the build. Spend it on the event instead — the finish, the content, the impression a curated audience actually takes home.

Gaylord Texan · DFW corridor

A resort convention giant, minutes from a global hub

The Gaylord Texan is a resort convention centre in the full sense — exhibit halls, ballroom complexes and a year-round corporate calendar under one roof, minutes from DFW’s nonstop routes to most of the world. Resort logistics are their own discipline, and they’re the one this page is built around.

Exhibit halls

Association & partner conference expos

The Texan’s convention floors run curated expos alongside conference programmes — hotel-grade finish expectations, scheduled freight windows, overnight installs.

Ballroom complexes

Corporate summits · launches

Ballroom builds move through freight lifts and padded corridors on the venue’s schedule — a category we engineer for from the first render.

DFW-area venues

Dallas & Fort Worth programmes

A Grapevine date often sits inside a wider North Texas programme — Dallas and Fort Worth venues run on the same fixed model, one project manager across the swing.

What we run for you here
  • Venue and hall confirmation from your contract before anything books
  • Floor plan filings and venue approvals
  • Dock target times scheduled to the right building
  • Electrical, rigging and drayage ordered at advance rates
  • COI and contractor paperwork per venue
  • Supervised install, show-day support, dismantle
Worth knowing before you plan

Resort venues run tighter approval chains than convention halls — the venue itself reviews builds, riggings and freight plans. We file to the Texan’s requirements as a matter of routine; for a first-time international exhibitor, that routine is most of the value.

The resort brief

A curated room changes the design job

Resort-venue events don’t run on aisle traffic — the attendee list is known, the schedule is programmed, and your stand meets people between sessions of an event they chose to attend. Attention here isn’t won by height and noise; it’s won by finish, clarity and hospitality.

So the brief reads differently: hotel-grade surfaces that hold up under close inspection, a message hierarchy that works at conversation distance, and hosting — seating, refreshment, a place to talk — as the stand’s actual function.

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Hotel-grade finish

Surfaces and details that survive arm’s-length inspection in a room where everything else is polished too.

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Conversation-distance design

Messaging built for two metres, not twenty — because nobody walks past at speed in a ballroom.

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Hosting as function

Seating, refreshment and meeting space as the core of the build — the reason a curated attendee stops.

Your US calendar runs past Grapevine? Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your show year starts.

In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Grapevine show calendar

When to start, by show

Grapevine’s calendar is corporate and association-driven rather than fixture-driven — name your event and we’ll confirm dates and the venue’s requirements before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
Association & partner conferencesYear-roundGaylord Texan4 months
Corporate summits & launchesYear-roundGaylord Texan & DFW venues4 months

Resort approval chains add time — the venue reviews builds and freight plans on its own schedule, which is why four months is the honest floor even for modest footprints.

Working backwards

The calendar that matters runs in reverse

Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. For a team planning across an ocean, the whole project exists to arrive at that gate comfortably, with your only travel being the flight to the show itself.

−6 MONTHSScope agreed in one call in your morning; fixed USD figure signed.
−4 MONTHSVenue requirements filed; layout and freight-route plan submitted for approval.
−10 WEEKSArtwork frozen — your files, converted to imperial print specs by us.
−8 WEEKSAdvance rates on show services expire. The gate everything aims at.
−4 WEEKSFreight-lift window and overnight install slot locked with the venue.
−2 WEEKSComplete build stands in our shop; photo sign-off from your desk.
SHOW WEEKInstall lands in your window; you fly in to a working stand.
Rush and last-minute

Overnight installs are our normal

A partner summit confirmed late, an exhibit slot added inside the quarter, a vendor who went quiet — corporate calendars move faster than trade-show ones. With design, fabrication and print in one building, approval-to-floor runs about four weeks. Same quality gate — built and photographed before shipping — same published price.

  • Roughly four weeks, approval to show floor
  • Photo-verified pre-build, even on rush
  • 10×10 through 20×40 (3×3 m through 6×12 m) on compressed timelines
  • The published price holds — no rush premium
Questions international exhibitors actually ask

Exhibition stands in Grapevine — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Grapevine?
The table above is the answer: $13,000 – $15,500 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $60,500 – $71,500 for a 9×12 m (30×40) — design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, crews and management in one contractual USD figure. The venue bills space, electrical, drayage and rigging separately to every exhibitor; we forecast those lines against your stand before you sign.
We have no US company. Can we still work with you?
Yes — a large share of our clients exhibit in the US with no local presence at all. We invoice the fixed figure in USD to your home-country entity, accept international wire transfer and card, and provide the contract and payment documentation your finance team needs. No US bank account, address or subsidiary required.
Is it really cheaper to build in the US than to ship our stand?
Total both directions of ocean freight, insurance, customs or carnet fees, drayage on the full crated weight, and US labour assembling an unfamiliar metric kit, and the answer is nearly always yes — the comparison above walks through it line by line. The part no spreadsheet captures: a stand damaged mid-ocean weeks before your show has no good outcome. Building locally deletes the risk along with the cost.
Can you rebuild the stand design we use at European shows?
Yes. Send photos or CAD of your existing stand and we rebuild the design to US materials, US electrical code, and the height, rigging and setback rules of your specific show. Most designs translate directly; anything a regulation forces gets flagged at render stage — visible from your desk, months out — not on the show floor.
What is drayage, and is it in your price?
Drayage (material handling) is the venue’s fee for moving freight between dock and stand space, billed by weight and invoiced directly to every exhibitor — no vendor can legitimately include it, and any who claims to has buried it. We forecast the line precisely against your actual stand before you sign, then file inside the advance-rate window. A locally built stand also simply weighs less at the dock than an imported crate, which is the honest way that bill shrinks.
Can our own team build the stand in Grapevine?
Resort venues set their own rules on top of show regulations, and reviewed builds, electrical and rigging are crew work under them. Our fixed price carries the crews, supervision and the venue’s approval paperwork — your team arrives to host, not to install.
Our event is in a ballroom, not an exhibit hall. Do you handle that?
It’s the core of this page. Ballroom builds run through freight lifts and padded corridors on the venue’s schedule, install overnight, and meet hotel-grade finish expectations — a different discipline from a hall, engineered for from the first render and covered by the same fixed price.
Is Grapevine part of a Dallas programme or its own thing?
Both, usefully. The Texan runs its own calendar, but a Grapevine date often sits inside a wider North Texas swing — Dallas market weeks, Fort Worth events — and each city carries its own published fixed price with one project manager across the programme.
How do approvals work across time zones?
Mostly asynchronously: renders and revisions move by email on a one-to-two-day cycle, and live calls are scheduled in your morning. The project has two hard checkpoints you can verify from anywhere — approved 3D renders before fabrication, and photographs of your completed, powered stand before it ships to the venue. We run projects with teams across Europe, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific on every major show cycle.
Our US calendar includes other cities. Do you cover them?
More than fifty of them — Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Las Vegas and beyond, on the same published fixed model. One stand design, one project manager, and a known USD price in each city, so a multi-show US year budgets in a single sitting from your home office — the full directory lives on our US exhibition stand hub.
Fixed USD pricing · No US entity needed · Full-service

Your Grapevine build, without the ocean.

Tell us the show and your space size — metres or feet. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed USD figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it. Approve everything from your desk; the only thing that flies is your team — into an airport ten minutes away.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451