Visitors to E Commerce Expo North 2009

Who visited in 2009

Below is a short analysis of the people who visited E Commerce Expo North in June 2009. In total some 850 people visited the show.

E Commerce Expo North is the perfect compliment to the London exhibition that runs each October.
74% of all vistors were from Yorkshire and the northwest and only 8% were from the South.
The London event delivers around 80% of its visitors from London and the south

Visitors to E Commerce Expo North had a combined e-commerce budget to spend over the next 12 month of approx £215m.
Nearly a third of the visitors had e-commerce budgets of over £100k.

Consistent with previous findings this chart shows that job function is a poor indicator of the people who are responsible for e-commerce within companies.
Interestingly, e-commerce as a function in it's own right is growing in popularity as it becomes so important to many companies.

The retail sector was well represented with 36% of all visitors coming from retail.

The exhibition delivered a cross section of company sizes, in keeping with the profile of the region.

Over 70% of attendees had a turnover of more than £250k, 50% had a turnaover of more than £1m and a surprisingly high 13% had a turnover of more than £100m.

This is a trade event, strictly no under 18's allowed. This includes babies, toddlers and children.