Long Beach · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Long Beach

The waterfront alternative on the LA calendar.

Custom exhibition stands for Long Beach Convention Center shows — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. The port outside handles the containers; your stand never has to be one of them.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Long Beach 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 sized to a venue that rewards proportion

Long Beach’s floors run more intimate than the LA giants — shows here choose the city for its scale, and stands that respect that scale read as confident rather than constrained. 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

This close to a port, the irony writes itself

Exhibitors sometimes reason that a port city makes shipping the stand easier. The container terminal handles your industry’s cargo brilliantly; it does nothing about the two ocean legs, the customs entries, the drayage billed on crated weight, or the US crews decoding a metric kit on deadline. The port moves boxes. It doesn’t make the box a good idea.

Build on this side instead. Your design language carries over from photos or CAD, fabricated to US materials and electrical code — and the only containers in your project are the ones your actual products ship in.

01

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.

02

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 Long Beach 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 a Long Beach budget

Exhibitors arriving from Asia, Europe or Latin America 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.

Union labour

≈ Venue-appointed contractors, stricter

Long Beach floors run on union crews for stand construction, electrical and rigging — exhibitor self-build is limited to small tool-free displays. 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.

Long Beach pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Long Beach, 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 · Long Beach · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$14,000 – $16,000Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$20,500 – $25,500Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$32,000 – $37,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$34,500 – $40,000Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$40,000 – $51,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$46,000 – $57,500Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$46,000 – $57,500Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$63,000 – $75,000Island. 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 Long Beach 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 stand

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 Long Beach
Refurbishment & export crating$4,000
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $9,100
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,400
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,500
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,500
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,500
Spent on logistics, not the stand$31,000
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×6 m (20×20) custom stand, fixed$32,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$32,000
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 a stand and buys a shipment. Put the money on the floor instead, in front of the audience that flew in to see it.

Long Beach Convention Center · Waterfront

A waterfront campus built at human scale

The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center runs exhibit halls, arena and theatre spaces on a compact waterfront campus, with hotels and the shoreline in walking distance. Shows choose Long Beach for exactly that scale — and the operational questions are the standard California ones, which are the part we run.

Exhibit halls

Trade shows · consumer events

The main floors, hosting a rotation of trade and consumer shows at a scale where a well-proportioned stand owns its aisle.

Arena & theatre spaces

Keynotes · specialty formats

The entertainment venues fold into show formats here — specialty exhibit and staging work with its own access rules, covered by the same fixed price.

Waterfront & hotel venues

Corporate events · activations

Shoreline venues and hotels carry a year-round events calendar — ballroom and outdoor 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

Long Beach often plays the second city on a Southern California programme — paired with Los Angeles or Anaheim dates in the same season. Each city carries its own published fixed price, and one project manager holds the whole swing.

The proportion brief

Confidence at the venue’s own scale

On a floor where nothing towers, design quality is unusually visible: proportion, finish and message clarity do the work that raw height does elsewhere. International brands often find Long Beach the most forgiving California floor for a first appearance — the audiences are real, the stakes are real, and a sharply designed mid-size stand competes at the top of the room.

So we design to the room: footprints that fill their space rather than apologise for it, sight lines tuned for shorter aisles, and the meeting corner that converts — because California costs are real, and every square metre should be working.

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Proportion over height

Stands designed to own their aisle at this venue’s scale — presence through composition, not tonnage.

02

Finish that reads up close

Shorter aisles mean closer inspection. Surfaces and details specified for arm’s length.

03

Every metre working

Demo, message and meeting functions planned tightly — the discipline California pricing rewards.

Your US calendar runs past Long Beach? Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego 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
Long Beach show calendar

When to start, by show

Long Beach’s calendar runs on rotation more than fixtures — name your show and we’ll confirm its dates and pull the manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
Rotating trade & consumer showsVaries by yearLong Beach Convention Center4 months
Corporate events & activationsYear-roundWaterfront & hotel venues4 months

Rotation is the planning trap — confirm your show’s Long Beach edition before booking anything. Sending us the show name costs nothing.

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 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 at the waterfront.
−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 space that opened late, a vendor who went quiet, a programme decision that landed inside the quarter — compressed timelines reach every calendar. 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 Long Beach — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Long Beach?
The table above is the answer: $14,000 – $16,000 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $63,000 – $75,000 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 Long Beach?
Not beyond small tool-free displays — California floors run on union and show-appointed crews for construction, electrical and rigging. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision; your team arrives to work the show, not the install.
We’re also doing an LA or Anaheim show this year. One project?
One programme, multiple builds. Southern California works as a circuit: the design approves once, each city carries its own published fixed price, and the same project manager runs the swing — Long Beach, Los Angeles, Anaheim — with your artwork and lessons carried forward.
Our products ship through the Port of Long Beach anyway. Doesn’t that make shipping the stand easy?
The port moves your industry’s cargo brilliantly — and changes nothing about the stand’s maths. The crossing still costs two ocean legs, customs entries, drayage on crated weight and crews decoding a metric kit; proximity to the terminal doesn’t discount any line of it. Ship the products; build the stand here.
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 — Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco 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 Long Beach 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 your samples.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451