Industry update: business is good

Reports from last month's WorkPlace exhibition are generally favourable. The organisers say visitor levels were up - and perhaps more importantly, the number of end users was up. Many exhibitors are talking about coming back again, some on bigger stands.

The three 'experimental' stands - assembled by the RCA, BDG McColl and Cordless Consultants - attracted considerable interest. This may have been in part because they seemed to be the only ones not dedicated to furniture. A big question for the next WorkPlace will be whether this is, in fact, a furniture show.

Though not involved in the exhibition, business is clearly good at Trigon, too. The FM company has announced contract wins at BA's new Didsbury call centre and at Cisco's second building in Stockley Park, as well as a contract extension at Talisman Energy in Aberdeen.

Elliott Chase