Corporate Profile

GES CANADA Exposition Services Limited (formerly Panex Show Services) was founded in 1966, through a joint venture of five partners. From the very beginning, GES CANADA maintained a total commitment to quality equipment, skilled personnel as well as superior technical and creative services.

By all measures, GES CANADA was a success from the start – satisfied customers, productive operations, and strong financial growth.

Panex’s accomplishments caused Southam Communications to become interested and in 1977 they began acquiring control of the joint venture –eventually assuming full ownership in 1980. As part of the Southam family of companies, Panex's resources expanded and so too did the client base.

In 1984, Tradeshow Week named Panex Show Services as Canada’s # 1 Show Services Contractor for the first time. Following that first recognition, Panex/GES CANADA have been awarded this achievement every year since.

Panex Show Services was purchased from Southam by the Dial Corporation (now known as Viad Corp.) in 1995. As owners of GES Exposition Services – the largest official services contractors in the U.S.A. – Viad recognized the value and quality of Panex’s people, inventory, and expertise. Panex is now known as GES CANADA Exposition Services and operates as a Canadian Limited company, reporting through GES to Viad.

The most important fact, through all this success and recognition, is that our pledge has never changed. Today, the shows are larger, we operate in eight Canadian cities, we have sister operations in sixteen U.S. cities, the pace is faster and the facilities are far superior, but the commitment remains – Industry leadership through respected, efficient, full service operations.

Our Mission Statement

We provide the most creative and innovative business and learning environments where our clients successfully market their products, ideas and services...today and in the future.

Our Core Values

Our Discernible Difference

In the last publication of Tradeshow Week, listing Canada’s Top 50 Canadian trade shows – GES CANADA (including its subsidiary, Exposervice) is listed as the official services contractor for the majority of the events detailed.

• Experience for yourself our Discernible Difference:
• Our people
• Our sales and marketing strategy
• Our financial strength
• Our creativity
• Our worldwide network
• Our international network of clients
• Our employee training programs
• Our product innovations
• Our quality inventory
• Our GEM modular system
• Our attitude

GES CANADA's Operations

GES CANADA now operates in four major Canadian cities - Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal (Exposervice Standard Inc.). We are also associated with GES operations in 31 cities throughout the United States and we're proud of the range and scope of our total operation.

Our 100,000 square foot Toronto headquarters and warehouse facility is a multi-faceted operation that provides many services to our customers, as well as storage, maintenance and production facilities for our installation teams.

Our design department has state-of-the-art technology enabling us to provide fast, creative and specialized designs. Whether it’s floor plans, entrances or our full service custom modular exhibit rentals, we are prepared to advise, monitor and quickly react to physical criteria as well as budget considerations.

The entire GES CANADA inventory is routinely checked, maintained and continually upgraded as part of our quality control commitment.

In addition to our in-house capabilities, we have the benefit of augmenting our significant local inventory with just a phone call. We can call any of our GES associates and receive full cooperation as well as identical products and services to handle those unique large events ..... experience the Discernible Difference.

Our Parent Company's History

The history of GES CANADA's parent company, GES Exposition Services Inc. of Las Vegas, Nevada, goes back to 1939 and includes the following milestones: