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Emerald Reports 4th Qtr & Full Year Fiscal 2024 Results; Events Grow, Content Struggles

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Emerald Holding, Inc. (NYSE: EEX), the parent company of Emerald Expositions, CEDIA Expo, and publications CEPro and Commercial Integrator, announced the financial results of its fourth quarter and full year of Fiscal 2024 earlier this month. Results showed modest revenue growth and a return to profitability as the COVID years continued to disappear in the rearview mirror. The company has acquired more shows in the first quarter and is feeling good about 2025.

Still, its reorganized Content segment continues to be troubled.

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Emerald Reports Disappointing 3Q2024; Discontinues 20 Events

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Emerald Holding 3Q2024 earnings cover

Owner of CEDIA Expo, CEPro & Custom Integrator is Challenged

Emerald Holding, Inc. (NYSE: EEX) reported its third quarter (3Q) of Fiscal 2024 financial results on Wednesday prior to the market open and it was a tough result with revenues flat – even with newly acquired shows included – and net income dropping to a double-digit million dollar net loss. The company announced it was engaging in a tougher “portfolio optimization” plan to cut unprofitable events and add newer, more profitable options.

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Emerald, Owner of CEDIA Expo & CE Pro, Says 2023 Revenues Rise 17% but Profits Drop 102%

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Emerald Holding, Inc. (NYSE: EEX), the parent company of Emerald Expositions, one of the country’s largest B2B tradeshow exposition companies, reported its Fiscal 2023 fourth quarter and full-year results. The results were mixed with full-year revenues growing by 17.5% compared to Fiscal 2022, but profits collapsing by 102% to a Net Loss.

Company management expressed extreme optimism on a call with financial analysts, but its stock value dropped dramatically the day it released these numbers.

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CEDIA Expo Attendee Videos Show Wide Open Aisles, Draped Empty Halls, and Sparse Attendance

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On-site registration, opening day [Photo: anonymous show attendee]

In a post yesterday, I suggested that the evidence seemed pretty clear – this year, attendees would find a very different CEDIA Expo. Today, the opening day of the event has seen a few videos and photos uploaded on Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites which seem to suggest that this is indeed a very different Expo.

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CEDIA Expo Opens with Few Exhibitors; Not 500, Not 242, Only 76 Booths Remain

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CEDIA Expo 2021 floorplan
Looks like lots of room for hospitality at CEDIA Expo 2021

CEDIA Expo opens this week, with education sessions starting today and the show floor opening tomorrow. As Strata-gee has been reporting, over the last three weeks literally hundreds of exhibitors have pulled out of the event over concerns surrounding the surge of infections due to the Delta variant of COVID-19. With Emerald expositions vowing to forge ahead with the event no matter what, attendees to the event – whether many or few – will find themselves at a very different CEDIA Expo.

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CEDIA Expo 2021: Should You Risk Your Health to Attend a ‘20% Expo’?

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CEDIA18 Day 2 crowds
I saw more open aisles on Days 2 & 3

The Day After Losing 39 Exhibitors, Expo Loses Another 26

What a crazy couple of weeks it has been for exhibitors of CEDIA Expo 2021, and also for potential attendees who watched a slow-motion train wreck unfold right in front of their eyes. It was almost exactly two weeks ago – on August 10th – when Savant CEO Robert Madonna suddenly announced that Savant was pulling out of CEDIA, due to concerns over the surging infections from the Delta variant of COVID-19.

Little did we know then that this was the trickle before the flood…

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CEDIA Expo Loses More Than 100 Exhibitors; Redraws Smaller Floorplan

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CEDIA 2018 crowd
CEDIA Expo in better days

CEDIA Expo 2021, scheduled to run in less than two weeks from September 1-3, 2021 in Indianapolis, IN, has been steadily shrinking over the last ten days or so, as exhibitors began pulling out in the face of the rapid expansion of COVID infections due to the Delta variant. Emerald, the exposition company that owns the CEDIA Expo, has said they are going forward no matter what – even though their data shows that more than 100 exhibitors have pulled out of the event in the last two weeks.

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Emerald: The Show WILL Go On!

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Emerald Holding logo

Emerald Letter Tries to Nail Down Remaining Exhibitors

On Wednesday, Emerald emailed a letter to exhibitors that appears to be an attempt to stem the outflow of companies that have canceled their participation in the CEDIA Expo 2021 – 42 brands according to Strata-gee’s tracking – and encourage those exhibitors that have not yet abandoned the show from leaving. Signed by Emerald executives Brian Pagel and Jason McGraw, the letter declared “the show is still very much on as planned.”

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Emerald Expo Says CEDIA Expo Virtual Registers 7,600; Claims Virtual Success

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CEDIA Expo Virtual logo

Emerald Expositions announced today that CEDIA Expo Virtual drew 7,600 trade professional registrations for their three day run from September 15-17, 2020. Although this figure is less than half the attendance at the live, in-person version, Emerald considers it a great success as an all-virtual event.

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Emerald Expo Pulls Off CEDIA Expo Virtual, Or Rather, CEproDIA Expo

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logo for CEDIA Expo Virtual

CEDIA Expo Virtual was almost exclusively an online media event…rather than a real, in-person trade show. I know…duh! Yes, I knew this logically, but it hadn’t really hit me viscerally until I actually attended the event. But what that means for Emerald Exposition is that their expertise in fielding large scale, B2B, in-person events really doesn’t apply here. And that fact forced them to rely exclusively on CE Pro for almost the entire event, including content strategy, seminar production, and show performance.

See more of my thoughts on this CEproDIA Expo Virtual overview…

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