Miami · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Miami

The US show floor Latin America lands on first.

Custom exhibition stands for Miami Beach Convention Center shows, Seatrade and Miami’s art-week activations — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. For exhibitors from São Paulo, Bogotá, Madrid or Mexico City, this is where the American market begins.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Miami 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 the hemisphere’s meeting point

Miami’s floors are the most linguistically and commercially international in the series — Latin American, European and US buyers in the same aisle, often on the same afternoon. 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 gateway city deserves better than a customs saga

Miami is many exhibitors’ first US appearance — the natural entry for Latin American and European brands testing the American market. Starting that entry with export crating, air or ocean freight, customs entries and drayage billed on crated weight turns a market test into a logistics project before the first buyer says hello.

Build on this side instead. Your design language carries over from photos or CAD, fabricated to US materials and electrical code — and your market entry’s only freight is the product itself.

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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.

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 Miami 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 Miami budget

Exhibitors arriving from Latin America or Europe 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 Florida 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.

Miami pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Miami, 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 · Miami · 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 Miami 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

Whether your stand would come by sea from Europe or by air from South America, the pattern holds: crating, two freight legs, customs, drayage on the loaded weight, and US crews decoding an unfamiliar kit. A 6×6 m island, both ways:

Flying your stand to Miami
Refurbishment & export crating$4,000
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $9,000
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,300
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,500
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,300
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,500
Spent on logistics, not the stand$30,600
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×6 m (20×20) custom stand, fixed$31,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$31,000
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. Spend it on the market entry instead — the design, the content, the buyer dinners this city does better than anywhere.

Miami Beach Convention Center · Special venues

A rebuilt beachfront hall, and a city that exhibits everywhere

The Miami Beach Convention Center anchors the calendar with a modernised hall a few blocks from the ocean, while Miami’s event identity spills into special venues — art-week pavilions, waterfront activations, hotel takeovers. The venue on your contract sets the rulebook, and this city has more rulebooks than most.

Miami Beach Convention Center

Trade shows · congresses · art week

The rebuilt main hall, running trade shows, international congresses and December’s global art week. Beach-city logistics — access routes, tight staging — reward plans filed early.

Special & waterfront venues

Activations · pavilions · launches

Art-week and brand-activation Miami turns warehouses, lots and waterfronts into venues, each with its own permits and power questions — specialised territory on the same fixed model.

Hotel venues

Corporate & association events

The beach and downtown hotels carry a heavy meetings calendar — ballroom logistics, handled the same way.

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

Miami’s autumn dates sit inside hurricane-season freight planning — weather margin in the schedule, pre-build photo gate held earlier — and December’s art week tightens hotels, venues and services citywide at once. Both go into the plan on day one.

The gateway brief

Where Latin America enters the US market

For brands from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina or Spain, Miami is the rational first American show: buyers who work in Spanish and Portuguese as readily as English, categories from food to fashion to maritime with established LatAm-US trade lanes, and a city where your commercial culture already half-exists.

Our part of that entry: a stand built to US code with none of the freight, USD invoicing that your finance team can process without a US entity, bilingual-friendly project coordination across the Americas’ time zones — the easiest alignment in the series — and a fixed number that survives the exchange-rate conversation.

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Market-entry sizing

A sharp 10×10 or 10×20 that tests the market properly — designed to your objectives, scaled at your second show, not your first.

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Same-hemisphere coordination

Your working day and ours overlap for hours — approvals, calls and revisions run same-day instead of overnight.

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Fixed in USD, friendly to FX

One signed figure your finance team can hedge or convert once — no drip of surprise invoices moving with the rate.

Your US calendar runs past Miami? Orlando, Atlanta, New Orleans, Las Vegas 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
Miami show calendar

When to start, by show

Miami’s fixed points plus its rotation — name your show and we’ll confirm venue and dates before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
Seatrade Cruise GlobalAprilMiami area — venue varies by edition5 months
Miami art weekDecemberMBCC & special venues6 months
Rotating trade shows & congressesVaries by yearMiami Beach Convention Center5 months

Art week gets six months — activation builds carry venue sourcing and permits on top of fabrication, and December Miami forgives nothing booked late. Seatrade’s venue has moved between editions; we confirm it from the organiser’s current filings.

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 confirmed from your contract or sourced; layout and permits filed.
−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 window locked; weather margin held for autumn dates.
−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

Short runway, same standard

A distribution deal that landed late, an art-week space confirmed inside the quarter, a vendor who went quiet — gateway-city opportunities move fast. 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 Miami — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Miami?
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 Miami?
Each show and venue sets its own rules, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them — with special venues adding city permits on top. Our fixed price carries the crews, supervision and paperwork; your team arrives to sell, not to install.
We’re a Brazilian brand doing our first US show. Why Miami, and how does payment work?
Miami is the natural entry: buyers who work across Spanish, Portuguese and English, trade lanes your logistics already know, and time zones that overlap your working day for real-time coordination. We invoice the fixed figure in USD to your Brazilian entity — international wire or card, no US company, bank account or address required — with contract documentation your finance team can process as a straightforward foreign supplier payment.
We want an art-week activation, not a convention stand. Is that you?
Yes — December Miami is half activation by design. Pavilions, showrooms and branded spaces carry venue sourcing, permits, continuous-programming power and scenographic finish, and we run all of it under the same fixed-price model as a hall build. The venue question is usually where we start, and in December it’s the question that rewards six months of runway.
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 — Orlando, Atlanta, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Chicago 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 Miami stand, without the crossing.

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 travel are your team and your product.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451