Los Angeles · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Los Angeles

Set-grade builds for the entertainment capital.

Custom exhibition stands for Anime Expo, Adobe MAX and every Los Angeles 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. In this town your stand shares a floor with people who build worlds for a living — it should be built by people who can keep up.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Los Angeles 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 finished to the standard this city was built on

Los Angeles audiences are professionally fluent in production value — creators, studios, licensors and fans who can spot a compromised finish from across a hall. 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

Your content travels as files. So should your stand.

The exhibitors who fly to Los Angeles — studios, publishers, brands, licensors — trade in the most portable products on earth: content, rights, characters, software. The irony of then shipping tonnes of walls and counters across an ocean to present them is expensive: crating, two freight legs, customs paperwork, and material handling billed on every kilogram of a stand that could have been built at the destination.

Send the design instead. Photos or CAD of the stand your brand runs at home become a Los Angeles build in US materials and US electrical code — same design language, set-grade finish, and not a single item of it ever sees a port.

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Nothing crosses a border

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

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Set-grade finish

Scenic-quality surfaces, controlled lighting and clean cable discipline — the finish standard an entertainment-industry audience assumes, delivered from a fabrication shop, not improvised on the floor.

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Screens as structure

LED and projection planned into the architecture from the first render, not bolted on after — because in this market, the content is the hero and the stand is its staging.

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Lighter freight, smaller bills

Material handling bills by weight. 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 Los Angeles budget

Exhibitors arriving from Tokyo, Seoul, London or Paris 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

Los Angeles 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 6×12 m is their 20×40

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.

Los Angeles pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Los Angeles, 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 · Los Angeles · 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 Los Angeles 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 is the most expensive thing on the stand

A brand-world stand is heavy by design — big surfaces, big screens, big presence. That weight is exactly what the crossing punishes: every kilogram pays ocean freight twice and drayage once. A 6×12 m island, both ways:

Flying your stand to Los Angeles
Refurbishment & export crating$5,000
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $9,500
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,600
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $7,000
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $9,000
Electrical & AV rework to pass US inspection+ $3,000
Spent on logistics, not the stand$36,100
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×12 m (20×40) custom stand, fixed$40,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Union install & dismantle crewsIncluded
Screens, mounts & AV wiringBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$40,000
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.

Ninety percent of the crossing budget, spent on nothing the audience sees. Build here instead, and the same money stands on the floor — screens wired, finish checked, photographed for your sign-off before it ships.

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Los Angeles stands, Los Angeles numbers on every card

Live inventory below, each card carrying its Los Angeles price. Choose a footprint or budget in the finder above and the selection re-sorts right here — every structure finishable as a fully custom exhibition stand.

Los Angeles Convention Center · Downtown

South Hall, West Hall, and a calendar that fills both

The Los Angeles Convention Center anchors downtown with its two main exhibit halls — South and West — connected by the concourse and worked by a dense city-block dock system. The hall assignment shapes freight routing and rigging plans, and LA’s event calendar layers convention weeks against everything else this city runs, which makes the assigned move-in window less a suggestion than a law of physics.

South Hall

Anime Expo · LA Auto Show main floors

The larger hall, home to the giant consumer and industry floors. High-traffic shows mean strict crowd-flow and queue rules for exhibitors — constraints we design into the stand rather than negotiate on the floor.

West Hall

Adobe MAX · conference expos

The second hall, carrying conference expos and mid-size shows with their own docks and schedule. A West assignment changes the freight plan, so it’s the first thing we read off your space contract.

Studio & special venues

Premieres · activations · corporate events

LA’s event world extends past the convention centre into studio lots, hotels and purpose-hired spaces. Brand activations in unconventional venues are their own discipline — one the same fixed-price model covers.

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

Several of LA’s biggest floors are consumer or fan events rather than pure trade shows — which changes the stand’s job. Queue design, crowd durability and photo-worthiness move up the brief, and the meeting space moves behind the scenes. We design for the audience your show actually admits.

The licensing floor

The deal happens in a quiet room behind a loud wall

At Anime Expo and LA’s licensing-driven floors, international exhibitors run two shows at once: a public-facing brand world that thrills a fan audience, and a private calendar of licensing and distribution meetings that justifies the airfare. The stands that work are engineered for both at the same time — spectacle out front, signed contracts in the back.

The brief that follows: photo-ready fronts that fans amplify for free, queue capacity that survives a viral moment without choking the aisle, and enclosed meeting rooms with real acoustic separation where a rights conversation can run for an hour at conference volume. Character walls and content loops out front; NDA territory behind.

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Photo-ready by design

Fronts composed for the camera — because at a fan show, every attendee is a distribution channel and the stand is the content.

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Queue engineering

Capacity, switchbacks and sight lines planned so a crowd reads as success to show management instead of a violation — and so the queue itself entertains.

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The licensing room

Enclosed, acoustically real, properly lit and cooled for hour-long conversations — the square metres that actually pay for the trip.

Your US calendar runs past Los Angeles? Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, 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
Los Angeles show calendar

When to start, by show

Los Angeles’ fixed points, with the planning runway each realistically needs from your first email. Around these, the LACC and the city’s special venues carry conferences and activations year-round; name yours and we’ll pull its manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
Anime ExpoJulyLos Angeles Convention Center5 months
Adobe MAXOctoberLos Angeles Convention Center4 months
LA Auto ShowNovemberLos Angeles Convention Center5 months

Anime Expo gets five months — licensing-driven stands carry meeting rooms, queue engineering and often character-IP approval cycles on your side that take longer than the fabrication does. Start the renders before your legal team starts theirs.

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 queue 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 window 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

Premiere timelines are our home ground

A title that got greenlit late, a licensing partner confirmed after the space release, a stand vendor who went quiet — entertainment calendars compress without asking permission. 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 Los Angeles — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Los Angeles?
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 Los Angeles?
Not beyond small tool-free displays — LA floors run on union crews for stand construction, electrical and rigging under venue and show rules, a system that surprises exhibitors from regions where self-build is routine. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision; your team arrives to run the show, not to build it.
Our show is a fan event, not a trade show. Does that change the stand?
Substantially. A fan floor turns the stand into content — photo-composed fronts, queue capacity that survives a viral moment, crowd durability in the materials — while the commercial work moves into enclosed meeting rooms behind the spectacle. We design for the audience your show actually admits, and for the licensing calendar that actually pays for the trip.
We also exhibit at NAMM and shows in Anaheim. Is that covered from this page?
Same model, neighbouring city. Anaheim runs as its own destination in our fixed-price system — one of the fifty-plus we publish numbers for — so an LA-plus-Anaheim year works like any circuit: one approved design, one project manager, and a known USD figure for each city before the year starts.
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 — Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Orlando 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 Los Angeles 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 content.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451