“Your Industry. Your Show.” is the slogan chosen by AHMA to promote its new Hardware Show in Chicago. The US trade association will be working in cooperation with the trade show management company Convexx on the organisation of the fair from 18 to 20 April 2004. The event is being held in competition with the National Hardware Show organised by Reed Exhibitions, which is moving to Las Vegas but is also being brought forward to the spring. AHMA points to wide-reaching support from the industry, though a number of big names are still missing from the list.
The names of the companies and associations that have so far come out in favour of the AHMA Hardware Show can be found in DIYglobal plus under the Trade Topics heading (v. Other articles on this topic).