NWI Biz Mag: Quality Trade Show Strategy
Northwest Indiana Business Magazine – 2026 July/July Issue Companies focus on building relationships, booths that tell their story Redesigning booths The types of booths that attract the most attention are those that emphasize experience over display. Interactive and experiential setups are particularly effective because they encourage visitors to participate rather than observe. Companies like Portage-based […]
Bigger Builds Ahead: Trinity Displays Expands into New 90,000 Sq. Ft. Facility
PORTAGE, Ind. — Trinity Displays, a full-service exhibit and experiential fabrication company owned by Marty McGinnis, Robert Swiatek, and Mario Pawinski, has relocated its headquarters from multiple buildings in Chesterton totaling 25,000 square feet to a centralized 90,000-square-foot facility in Portage, Indiana, marking a major milestone in the company’s continued growth. Completed in February 2026 following a phased […]
Trinity Displays receives Lane One Foundation’s “Business of the Year” Award
Chesterton, IN – Trinity Displays, a nationwide, award-winning, custom fabrication and large format printing partner for experiential and tradeshow displays, has been honored with the “Business of the Year” Award by the Lane One Foundation. This award, presented by Executive Board Members Todd Elliot, Red Stone, Paul Pallas, and Kevin Pastrick, recognizes local businesses within […]
Trinity Displays on Eggo House, Experiential Display Space
Marty McGinnis and Bob Swiatek of Trinity Displays (Chesterton, Indiana) discuss the company’s work to create the one-of-a-kind Eggo House of Pancakes, located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They also share their experience working on other experiential displays, and describe why “experience” is a growing part of display work. Dan MarxContent DirectorWide-Format Impressions
The 2024 Fab 50: Recognizing the Event Industry’s Top Builders
The Best Exhibit and Event Fabricators Serving the Experiential Marketing Industry Like the industry it serves, the landscape of exhibit builders fabricating trade show booths, branded installations and outdoor activation structures for corporate clients is in a state of constant evolution. Maximalism is on trend, but so are purposeful materials. Trade shows are back with […]
Partner Perspectives: Three Ideas to Cut Your Exhibit Costs
Rising costs continue to be the No. 1 challenge for brands in the industry as organizations and their partners navigate economic headwinds and disruptive market dynamics. The 2022 Material Handling and Labor Rates Survey by The Exhibitor Advocate association showed a continued rate increase, which for certain services and markets outpaced inflation by double digits. Anecdotal evidence from […]
The 2023 Fab 50: Recognizing the Event Industry’s Top Builders
THE ONLY EDITORIAL ROSTER OF THE INDUSTRY’S BEST FABRICATION PARTNERS The budgets are tight. The timelines are all over the place. The faces on many client teams are new. But at the end of the day, the master craftspeople who stand up our event builds and exhibit booths know the power of creativity, strategy, measurement […]
Six Recent Mobile Tour Strategies That Drove Results
SAVE THE CHILDREN They say if you don’t use it, you lose it, so to keep underserved kids engaged in learning and prepare them for the school year while they were on summer vacation, Save the Children took its youth reading campaign on the road. Along with brand partners T.J.Maxx, SC Johnson and Nickelodeon, the […]
