Make sure you are only dealing with appointed Canon Communications staff in
connection with any promotional activities related to the event

In the past the FairGuide.com/Construct Data Verlag tricked exhibitors with their misleading directory services. A new organisation called Expo Guide is now doing the same thing and it is suspiciously similar to FairGuide.

Expo Guide/FairGuide.com/Construct Data Verlag target companies through legitimate exhibition guides aimed at exhibitors. Their current activities cover companies throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Expo Guide joins FairGuide in claiming to offer online listing services. They use a form which resembles an organiser's free catalogue listing service, inviting exhibitors to complete the form for an entry in an on-line directory. Unsuspecting exhibitors who sign and return the form are then contracted into a three-year, non-retractable agreement, which could cost the exhibitor a significant amount of money, with no foreseeable benefits.

Included in their group is debt collection agency Gravis Inkasso Gmbh and Swiss debt collection agency Premiumn Recovery AG (a Construct Data subsidiary) which works in partnership with the various guides to intimidate exhibitors into paying.

These publications have no connection with exhibition organisers or any of their events. It is important that all companies who are exhibiting are made aware of this.

We strongly advise all exhibitors and the entire exhibition community, to be most vigilant against this and similar organisations. These organisations can cause extreme damage and harm to the reputation of the exhibition industry.

There are many so called guides that mail deceptive contracts and then harass those who sign them in error for money. However the sheer scale and systematic way in which these guides attack the credibility of our exhibition industry is outrageous.

So please be aware and avoid all dealings with Expo Guide/FairGuide.com/ Construct Data Verlag and other questionable practices.