NRF Big Show · Jacob K. Javits Convention Center · New York · January

NRF Big Show Booth Rentals

The whole retail industry walks one floor in January. Your booth gets one pass.

Fixed-price exhibits for Retail’s Big Show — design, fabrication, graphics, freight, installation and dismantle in one number that doesn’t move. Pre-built, lit and photo-approved before it ships, so what stands up at the Javits Center has already stood up once.

Booth Finder

Filters the booths below — every one is published with a fixed price.

January 10-12, 2027Show dates · auto-updated
Jacob K. Javits Convention CenterVenue
New YorkCity
Advance orders close ~Nov 15, 2026
40,000+Attendees on the floor
1Venue — the Javits Center
24 hrConcepts and a fixed quote back
1Project manager, end to end
Built for retail-technology brands

The kind of booth the Big Show is judged by

The NRF audience is retailers, and retailers judge environments for a living — merchandising, sightlines, flow. A booth that would pass at a regional show reads as a bad store here. The work below is what we build for technology companies selling into commerce: custom structures designed around the demo — the POS terminal, the camera rig, the live dashboard — with every project moving through one team from first rendering to dismantle.

Know the floor before you plan the booth

The Javits isn’t just a venue. It’s Manhattan.

Retail’s Big Show happens at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Manhattan’s West Side — which means everything about your booth travels through one of the most constrained freight environments in the trade-show world. Trucks don’t just pull up to the Javits; they queue, marshal and wait for a window. The exhibitors who have easy move-ins here are the ones whose paperwork and freight plans were filed early. The rest pay for the difference.

Javits Center logistics

Manhattan freight realities

Getting a booth into Midtown Manhattan is nothing like rolling into a Las Vegas dock. Marshaling yards, scheduled windows, city traffic and tight dock access mean a missed slot can cost you a day, not an hour. Advance planning matters everywhere — at the Javits it matters more. We book the freight window early, plan to the building’s schedule and have a supervisor at the dock when the truck arrives.

The show floor

Retail judges environments for a living

Your booth’s audience spends its working life deciding what a shopper sees first. That instinct doesn’t switch off at a trade show — a cluttered booth reads like a cluttered store. The floor rewards one clear message, a working demo up front and a layout that moves people through, the way good retail does. We design to that standard, not to a render on a white background.

The January problem

Decisions happen in Q4

The Big Show lands right after the holidays — which means your approvals, graphics and orders happen in Q4, exactly when your own team is consumed by peak season and production everywhere runs half-speed. The real deadline for a locked design is mid-November. Miss it and you’re not late, you’re paying floor rates for everything.

What we handle at the Big Show
  • Booth design planned for your actual placement and sightlines
  • Layout submission and show approval, filed early
  • Electrical, rigging and material handling orders calculated and filed at advance rates
  • Union labour coordination and on-site supervision
  • COI, EAC and exhibitor-manual deadlines mapped to our calendar
  • Marshaling, dock target times, dismantle, pack and outbound freight
Billed by the show, not by us

Booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging, cleaning and internet are billed to every exhibitor directly by the show and venue — no exhibit house can absorb them and none should claim to. What we do is calculate them for your exact booth before you commit, and file every order at advance rather than floor rates.

  • Booth space
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily cleaning · internet
Why a fixed price matters most here

The budget you present in September should survive January

New York shows are where exhibit-house invoices go to grow: labour hours over estimate, revisions rebilled as change orders, graphics reprints, supervision time nobody flagged. Our model is the opposite — the number you approve is the number you pay, contractually. Design revisions are unlimited until you approve. The quote and the final invoice are the same document.

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One number, and it holds

Design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, lighting, freight, installation, dismantle and project management in a single fixed price.

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Proven before it ships

Your booth stands fully assembled and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility, and you approve photographs of the actual build — not a render.

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Show costs, known up front

Space, electrical, drayage and rigging calculated for your exact booth before you commit — so the total is a number, not a range.

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The paperwork is ours

COI, EAC, electrical, rigging, freight windows — filed at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. Nothing lands on your desk three days before it’s due.

We quote higher and cost less. That’s the whole argument, and it’s why every booth below is published with its price rather than hidden behind a “request a quote” form.

Available for the Big Show

Show-ready booths, with real prices

Every booth below is published with its price and available as a custom build for your brand — rented, not bought. Use the finder at the top of the page to narrow by size and budget.

Or jump straight to your footprint

One click — the catalog opens already filtered to your size, with published fixed prices on every booth.

Working backwards from January

Your real deadline is in November

The advance-order cutoff lands weeks before the show — the exact date is in the facts strip at the top of this page, and it updates automatically each edition. But for the Big Show the binding constraint arrives even earlier: the production weeks this timeline assumes don’t exist between Thanksgiving and New Year, and your own Q4 doesn’t leave room for booth decisions made late.

JUNE–AUGBrief, concepts and the fixed price locked. Full design freedom.
SEPTEMBERLayout submitted for show approval — placement confirmed.
OCTOBERGraphics finalised and sent to production — before your peak season swallows the calendar.
MID-NOVDesign locked. Advance electrical and rigging filed. After this, the holidays own your timeline.
EARLY DECManhattan freight window and dock target time booked.
MID-DECBooth built, lit and photographed for your approval — before the break.
SHOW WEEKCrew installs in your move-in slot at the Javits. You walk in at handover.
Take this to every vendor

Five questions to ask anyone quoting your NRF booth

Put these to every exhibit house you’re comparing — including us. They separate the vendors that stand behind a number from the ones whose estimate is an opening position. Our answers are printed here so you can hold us to them.

1 Will you put the total price in writing before I sign — and hold it? Ours: yes. Every booth on this page is published with its price. The quote and the final invoice are the same number, contractually. Printed above · hold us to it
2 Do design revisions become change orders? Ours: never. Revisions are unlimited until you approve, and the price is locked before design starts — a better idea in October costs nothing.
3 Will I see my actual booth before it ships — or a render? Ours: the actual booth, fully assembled and lit at our facility, photographed for your sign-off before the holidays. Renders are promises; photographs are evidence.
4 Who files my advance show orders, and at which rate? Ours: we do, at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. In Manhattan the advance-versus-floor spread is real money — if a vendor can’t answer this immediately, that’s your answer.
5 What happens to my timeline over the holidays? Ours: nothing — because your booth is built and photo-approved before mid-December. Any vendor still fabricating between Christmas and New Year is gambling with your show. Ask them directly.
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 booth programmes · 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
Questions NRF exhibitors actually ask

NRF Big Show booth rental FAQs

How much does an NRF Big Show booth rental cost?
Every booth on this page is published with its price — fixed and all-inclusive: design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, installation, dismantle and project management. Separately, the show and venue bill you directly for booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging, cleaning and internet; we calculate those for your exact booth before you commit, so the total is known before you sign anything.
When should I book a booth for the Big Show?
Lock your design by mid-November. The show opens the year, so graphics and approvals land across the holidays — and across your own Q4, when a retail-facing team has the least bandwidth it will have all year. Start the conversation in summer for full design freedom; the exact advance-order deadline for the next edition is in the facts strip at the top of this page and updates automatically.
What’s different about exhibiting at the Javits Center?
Freight, mostly. Getting a booth into Midtown Manhattan means marshaling yards, scheduled dock windows and city traffic — a missed slot costs a day, not an hour. Labour on the floor is union-coordinated, and the paperwork stack is real. None of it is your problem to manage: we book the freight window early, file every order at advance rates, and have a supervisor at the dock when your booth arrives.
Will a rental look custom, or will it look reused?
Every booth is custom-fabricated for your brand — graphics, layout, lighting and finishes built on a modular structure underneath. The builds shown above are rentals. Before yours ships, it stands fully assembled, powered and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility and you approve photographs of the actual booth, not a render.
Can I install the booth myself to save on labour?
New York show floors run on contracted union labour, and the rules about who may build what are strict. Either way it isn’t your problem to arrange: labour coordination and on-site supervision are inside our fixed price, with orders filed at advance rather than floor rates.
What happens if something goes wrong during move-in?
Your project manager and our install supervisor are on site through move-in and reachable across show days. Because everything was assembled and checked before shipping, the problems that usually surface at this stage — missing hardware, graphics that don’t fit, panels that won’t seat — have already been found and fixed on our floor, weeks earlier.
A vendor just fell through. How fast can you deliver an NRF booth?
Four to six weeks from approval to show floor for complete pre-built, photo-verified booths from 10×10 through 20×40 — at the same fixed price as a six-month lead time, with no rush surcharge. For a January show specifically, the earlier in the fall you call, the more of that window sits outside the holidays.
We’re a retail-tech startup with a small footprint. Is that worth doing custom?
Yes — smaller footprints are still custom builds with your graphics, lighting and demo layout, at a published fixed price. On a floor where the audience judges environments professionally, a clean 10×10 with one working demo beats a crowded 10×20 every time. And because the design files carry forward, this year’s booth becomes the starting point for a bigger footprint next edition.
Do you handle events off the show floor — showrooms, activations, press events?
Yes — hotel suites, meeting spaces, pop-ups and satellite activations around the show run under the same fixed-price model, coordinated by the same project manager as your booth.
Fixed pricing · Pre-built & photo-approved · Full-service support

Exhibit at the Big Show with zero surprises.

Tell us your footprint, your placement if you know it, and what the booth needs to do. You’ll have design concepts and one fixed price back within 24 hours — including what the show and venue will bill you directly.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451