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2010 Report
If you are in retail and you missed July's ETO Show at Birmingham's NEC, then frankly you may have missed out. Paul Smith reports back from the UK adult industry's only dedicated trade event...
After five years and six incarnations, the ETO Show remains the significant exhibition for all corners of the UK industry, from shoe designers to wig makers, from the roughest of porn barons to the most sophisticated of lingerie manufacturers and for retailers, kitchen-table e-tailers and distributors of toys, novelties, potency products, consummables and yes, even giant wobbly gun-shaped dildo's.
As I walked around ahead of its opening on the Sunday, I said to myself this is really is a show with something for everyone. Everyone open-minded and working in the adult arena that is; the ETO Show's strict trade-only policy continues to keep the wrong sort of visitor out and the right sort of visitor not having to battle their wait through 'civilians' to find the people and the products they'd come to see.
I suspect this was the biggest ETO Show yet. With a large selection of new stands swelling the numbers, as well as some welcome 'returnees' and perineal stalwarts, I felt it offered visitors a broad range of lines to learn about as well as people passionate about them to meet with.