Indianapolis · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Indianapolis

A connected downtown, and two world-class technical shows.

Custom exhibition stands for FDIC International, PRI and every Indiana Convention Center show — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. One of America’s easiest convention downtowns, at one of its friendliest price points.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Indianapolis price.

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

Stands for audiences that use the product hard

Indianapolis’s marquee floors — fire service, motorsport — draw practitioners from dozens of countries who handle equipment for a living and judge exhibitors accordingly. 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

The gear crosses if it must. The stand never does.

International exhibitors here often show physical product — apparatus components, safety equipment, race hardware — and some of it genuinely must cross. The stand is the exception: structure that adds crates, carnet lines and dock weight to a manifest that was already complicated enough.

Build the stand on this side. Your design language carries over from photos or CAD, fabricated to US materials and electrical code, engineered around whatever you’re demonstrating — 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.

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Your design, translated

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

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Lighter freight, smaller bills

Material handling bills by weight, and a locally built rental reaches the dock at a fraction of an imported stand’s crated mass — a line we forecast before you sign.

The US show floor, translated

Three terms that decide an Indianapolis budget

Exhibitors arriving from Europe, Asia or Australia meet a show-floor 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 Indiana 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 6×6 m is their 20×20

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.

Indianapolis pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Indianapolis, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Indianapolis sits at the friendly end of US show-cost markets, and the figures below reflect it. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.

Fixed pricing · Indianapolis · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$12,500 – $14,500Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$19,000 – $23,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$29,500 – $33,500Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$31,500 – $36,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$36,500 – $47,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$42,000 – $52,500Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$42,000 – $52,500Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$58,000 – $68,000Island. 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 Indianapolis 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

The crossing costs more than the stand does

Shipping an owned stand looks free because the stand is paid for. Then the crossing gets priced: crating, two ocean legs, customs, drayage on the loaded weight, and US crews decoding a metric kit against a deadline. A 6×6 m island, both ways:

Flying your stand to Indianapolis
Refurbishment & export crating$3,900
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $8,700
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,300
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,300
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,200
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,400
Spent on logistics, not the stand$29,800
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×6 m (20×20) custom stand, fixed$29,500
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$29,500
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 more than the stand. Build here, bank the difference, and spend it where a practitioner audience will actually notice.

Indiana Convention Center · Downtown

A convention downtown connected by skywalk

The Indiana Convention Center anchors one of America’s most convenient show downtowns — a dozen hotels linked to the halls by climate-controlled skywalks, with Lucas Oil Stadium’s exhibit floors connected into the same system. For a visiting international team, the whole show week happens indoors and on foot.

ICC exhibit halls

FDIC · PRI · rotating shows

The main halls, hosting technical shows with heavy equipment displays and live-demo traditions. Demo infrastructure and floor loading are routine filings here — ours, not yours.

Lucas Oil Stadium

Overflow & specialty exhibits

The connected stadium adds exhibit floors with a rulebook of its own — a venue change that shifts the freight plan, read off your contract first.

Skywalk hotel venues

Association meetings · corporate events

The connected hotels run their own meetings calendar — ballroom logistics on the same fixed model.

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

December’s PRI and April’s FDIC bracket winter — January-adjacent freight carries weather margin, and holiday shop schedules sit inside a PRI runway. Both go into the plan on day one.

The practitioner brief

Audiences that put their hands on everything

Firefighters at FDIC and race engineers at PRI share a habit: they touch the product, operate it, and ask the questions brochures dodge. Stands here are working environments — equipment mounted to be handled, demos that run repeatedly, and staff positioned for technical conversation rather than lead capture.

We build for that: mounts and surfaces that survive five days of handling, demo infrastructure with real power and redundancy, and meeting space where a specification conversation can sit down — because practitioner shows convert on credibility, not spectacle.

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Built to be handled

Mounts, surfaces and hardware chosen for five days of practitioner hands — and still crisp on day five.

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Live-demo infrastructure

Power, safety clearances and reset-friendly staging for demos that run on repeat all week.

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The technical conversation

Seating and acoustic separation for the specification talk that actually converts here.

Your US calendar runs past Indianapolis? Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Orlando and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one stand 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
Indianapolis show calendar

When to start, by show

Indianapolis’s fixed points, with the planning runway each realistically needs — name your show and we’ll pull its manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
FDIC InternationalAprilIndiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium5 months
PRI — Performance Racing IndustryDecemberIndiana Convention Center5 months
Rotating shows & congressesVaries by yearIndiana Convention Center4 months

PRI’s December dates put holidays inside your runway — shop schedules and freight both — which is why five months is the honest floor for it.

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 MONTHSHall confirmed from your contract; layout and demo 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 slot and dock time locked downtown.
−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

Four weeks out is still a plan

A distributor who committed late, a space that opened in the final release, a vendor who went quiet in November — technical show calendars compress like any other. 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 Indianapolis — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Indianapolis?
The table above is the answer: $12,500 – $14,500 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $58,000 – $68,000 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 Indianapolis?
Each show’s regulations govern what exhibitors may do themselves, and a custom island with live demos is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision — your team arrives to run demos, not to build walls.
Our equipment runs live demos at FDIC. What does that mean for the stand?
It leads the design. Live-demo stands carry power, safety clearances, reset-friendly staging and surfaces built for repeated handling, and the show’s demo rules get filed with the floor plan. We engineer all of it from the first render, so the demo that sells your equipment never collides with an inspector.
How international are these shows really?
More than the city’s profile suggests — FDIC draws fire-service delegations from dozens of countries, and PRI’s aisles carry motorsport suppliers from Europe, Asia and Australia. Both audiences search in “booth” and “stand” vocabulary alike, and both reward exhibitors who arrive with the American services system already handled.
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 — Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Orlando, Atlanta 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 Indianapolis stand, 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 things that fly are your team and the gear that must.

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