The UK's biggest consumer electronics publisher Future Publishing, and leading show organiser Centaur Exhibitions, create the future of home technology shows
Future Publishing and its T3 title - the world's number one gadget magazine - have joined with Centaur Media subsidiary Centaur Exhibitions to create The T3 Smart Home Show. This is a major repositioning of the Smart Homes Show that has run twice alongside The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the NEC in Birmingham. The new show will co-locate with the National Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the NEC in March 2007 and it will feature the latest collections of domestic technology.
Majoring on home installation, home entertainment technology, security, lighting and media-streaming electronics, The T3 Smart Home Show will bring your home technology to a proven audience of the 50,000 visitors who regularly attend the Homebuilding & Renovating and Smart Home Shows. These visitors have an average budget for projects of 116,852 (Data: Vivid Interface 2006).
Calum Taylor, managing director of Centaur Exhibitions says, "The Smart Home Show was originally born out of the hugely successful Homebuilding & Renovating Shows - as in today's world creating your dream home increasingly includes specifying the latest entertainment, automation and lighting technology. Centaur is delighted to be re-branding the show as The T3 Smart Home Show and to be working with Future to take what is already a very successful show to the next level."
Future Publishing is the UK's market-leading consumer electronics magazine publisher, with an unrivalled 46% of the market. T3's involvement will stretch to liaising with top consumer electronics manufacturers and selecting the finest home entertainment products for display at the show.
The launch of the show also coincides with the launch of T3 Home Magazine, a new quarterly focused on showcasing the best in domestic technology, for every room in the house.
James Beechinor-Collins, editor-in-chief of T3, said "This is a fantastic opportunity to bring the T3 brand to a wider audience. We've been really impressed with Centaur during our relationship over the last couple of years and felt confident enough to strengthen that relationship in order to bring something completely new to the British public".
About Future
Future plc is an international special-interest media group with offices in the UK, US, France and Italy. Founded in 1985 with one UK magazine, today it creates over 150 special-interest publications, websites and events, with strong portfolios in the computing, games, music, automotive, sports, crafts and leisure sectors. Over 100 international editions of Future's magazines are also published under license in 30 other countries across the world. Future employs over 1,500 people worldwide. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FUTR).
About Centaur
Centaur's product portfolio currently comprises 9 weekly magazines, 2 fortnightly magazines, 16 monthly magazines, 3 magazines of a quarterly or bi-monthly frequency, 1 monthly newsletters, 27 annual printed products, 20 online products or services, 25 awards or other sponsored events, 25 exhibitions and 90 conferences.
Centaur reports its results within 5 distinct business sector segments, namely Legal and Financial, Marketing and Creative, Engineering and Construction, Perfect Information and Other. The first 3 segments comprise principally the following vertical business communities in which Centaur publishes market-leading magazine titles: Retail Financial Products, Legal Services, Marketing Services, Creative Services, New Media, Engineering, Private Homebuilding. Centaur also enjoys strong positions in a number of other specialist communities, namely HR, Visual Arts Production, Construction, Antique Rugs and Textiles, Logistics, Recruitment and Public/Private Finance. In addition, it serves the Business Travel community with 3 leading trade shows in the UK and overseas.
About T3
T3 launched in September 1996 as Tomorrow's Technology Today. The magazine has since gone on to be the world's number one gadget magazine, with 24 editions worldwide. T3 is published in 18 languages. T3.co.uk is one of the largest consumer electronics websites in the UK with an audience of over 230,000 regular users. T3 Home, a sister title devoted to Home Electricals, launches in September 2006.
For further information contact::
