Polo and khakis
A brand-color polo, khaki or dark chinos and a matching lanyard. Practical beside a running line and easy to read from far away.
Best for: Rail hosts, spec barPACK EXPO booth staff who work beside running machines: rail hosts, lead reps, meeting hosts and polished models for awards and press. Local Las Vegas people at $85 an hour each, with no travel line on your bill.
Real Purple eventSources: packexpolasvegas.com Show Stats page (2027 dates and hall hours, four LVCC halls, 30,000+ attendees, 2,300 exhibitors); PMMI news release “PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2025 opens with largest show floor in event history” (about 1,000,000 sq ft, 2,300 exhibitors, 40+ vertical markets, 100+ sessions); Purple Exhibits PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2027 exhibitor guide (pavilions by hall). Figures as published by PMMI for the 2025 edition, checked October 2026.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas is where packaging and processing machine builders run their equipment for the plants that buy it. Purple Exhibits supplies PACK EXPO booth staff for those booths: rail hosts who manage the crowd at a running line, booth reps who log specs and leads, meeting hosts, greeters and trade show models for awards and press moments. Every person bills at $85 an hour, with a four-hour minimum. The crew lives in Las Vegas, so the bill never carries airfare, rooms or a travel fee. This edition is set for September 27–29 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. PMMI holds it every other year in Las Vegas, and PACK EXPO International takes the even years in Chicago. Your engineers keep the machines; our people keep the visitors moving and the lead sheet full. Early summer bookings get first pick of people; a rush request needs only 72 hours.
THIS SIDE UP · HANDLE WITH CARE
Hosts, ambassadors and full booth teams from real Purple Exhibits shows. Matching, briefed and comfortable talking to engineers and buyers alike.
Hosts in shift dresses (top of page). Three hosts in matching charcoal shift dresses tied with royal blue sashes stand at the front of a booth, badges on, ready to greet.
That neat, matched look suits a packaging floor where buyers walk past hundreds of machines a day. A crew that looks like one team gets noticed, and a crew that knows your line keeps people talking.
Book PACK EXPO staffReal Purple Exhibits events.
Four outfits that work in the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Dress the whole crew alike or give each job its own look.
A brand-color polo, khaki or dark chinos and a matching lanyard. Practical beside a running line and easy to read from far away.
Best for: Rail hosts, spec barA tailored shift dress in a neutral tone, tied with a sash in your brand color. Polished for greeting and awards moments.
Best for: Greeting, press, awardsA fitted jacket over a plain top with dark denim or trousers. Relaxed but sharp for sample tables and hands-on displays.
Best for: Sample table, materialsA button-up work shirt with your logo, dark trousers and closed-toe non-slip shoes. Right for booths where staff stand near machines all day.
Best for: Machine-side demosSend your brand colors and any uniform pieces with the booking. We confirm shoes, hair and badge placement with every staffer, and anyone working near a running line wears closed-toe shoes.
Tell the planner how many machines will run and how many meetings you expect. The panel lights green when the crew fits the booth, and prices it at $85 per hour on the posted hall hours.
Six zones you find in most PACK EXPO booths with a running line, and who stands where. Select a zone to read the job.
Example 20×40 machinery booth, not to scale. Once booked, your real floor plan and guard lines get marked up this way.
The machine runs here, behind the guard and the rail. Your own engineers start, stop, change over and clear jams. Our staff never touch the controls and never reach past a guard.
A rail host keeps visitors at a safe line, tells them what the machine is doing in plain words and points to the next run on the timetable board.
PMMI keeps business inside contracted booths, so the greeter works from your carpet edge, not the aisle. One question sorts each badge: food, pharma, consumer goods or something else?
A booth rep scans the badge, notes the product, the line speed and the timing the visitor mentions, and books a follow-up with your sales engineer.
Finished packs from the line sit here: pouches, cartons, bottles or blister cards. A brand ambassador hands them out with a spec card if you allow take-aways.
Plant managers and engineers often book time. A meeting host checks the list, seats each group and fetches your engineer when the line demo ends.
Brands that have booked Purple
PMMI spreads the show across four halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center and places each pavilion by product category. Your hall shapes the crew brief. For halls, docks and freight, see our Las Vegas Convention Center venue guide.
Tighter aisles and wet or stainless demos. Rail hosts keep the crowd compact, and we brief staff on any hygiene rules your booth follows, such as hairnets near open product.
Roomy aisles and big lines. Visitors here ask about data, printing and pallets as often as speed, so reps carry a short card of approved answers and pass deep questions to your engineer.
Lower ceilings in older sections mean smaller signs, so a greeter at your booth edge does more of the work of being found.
Brand managers and package designers come to touch samples. An ambassador at the sample table matters more here than a crowd rail.
Pavilion placement for 2027 as listed by PMMI and summarized in our PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2027 exhibitor guide. Exhibiting in a pavilion is subject to PMMI approval.
Every booth with a live line splits the work the same way. Your engineers own the equipment. Our crew owns the crowd, the questions and the lead sheet. That line never moves.
Two full days and a short one. Crew call is an hour before doors, so the rail is set and the brief is fresh when the first run starts.
Opening day. Lines run on the timetable from the first hour, so rail hosts set the crowd line before the first visitor arrives and reps start the lead sheet.
The full middle day. Meeting hosts work the busiest appointment list, and we stagger breaks so the rail and the spec bar are never empty at the same time.
Short last day. Final meetings and follow-up bookings first, then the crew clears samples and literature while your team prepares the machines for teardown.
Hall hours as posted on packexpolasvegas.com. If PMMI changes them, we move call times to match.
Seven jobs that come up again and again in PACK EXPO booths, with the usual headcount and when to lock each one in.
| Role | What they do at PACK EXPO | How many | Book by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rail host | Keeps visitors at the viewing rail, explains each run in plain words, posts the next demo time | One per running line | May |
| Booth rep | Scans badges, records product, speed and timing needs, books engineer follow-ups | One per spec bar | May |
| Greeter | Works the booth edge inside your line and sorts visitors by industry | One for 20×20 and up | June |
| Meeting host | Runs the appointment list at the meeting pod and seats each group | One per pod | June |
| Brand ambassador | Hands out finished sample packs and spec cards at the sample table | One per sample table | July |
| Spokesmodel | Stands with the machine for press, awards and your content team | One per photo block | July |
| Bilingual rep | Helps visitors who prefer Spanish or another language at the spec bar | On request | July |
Machine builders and materials suppliers ask us for these eight, all on the one $85 hourly rate. For crowd work at the rail, see our product demonstrators and live demo presenters; for spec bars and badge scanning, our lead capture staff who qualify every visitor.
Spokesmodels stand with a new machine for press, awards photos and your content team. Each learns the model name and one clear line about what it packs.
Hosts gather a group at the viewing rail, explain each run in plain words and hand interested visitors to your engineer.
Reps scan badges and record the product, line speed and timing a buyer mentions, so your sales engineers know who to call first.
Ambassadors hand out finished sample packs and spec cards and invite people in from the edge of your booth.
Hosts run your appointment list at the meeting pod or hotel suite and greet each plant team by name.
Greeters sort visitors by industry in one question, so food, pharma and consumer goods buyers each reach the right person.
Badges, name lists and a fast line for any training, talk or reception your company runs that week.
Helpful when you expect visitors from Latin America or other regions. Tell us the languages and we confirm who is free with the quote.
Calm beside running machines, clear with first-time visitors and quick to log a lead for your engineers. These five roles staff most PACK EXPO booths.
Presenters with a headset mic who talk a small group through a packaging machine demo.
Ambassadors who scan a visitor badge at the booth edge and pass the lead to your team.
Hosts at a filling and sealing station who hand out finished sample packs with a spec card.
Hostesses who welcome plant managers to a client meeting suite and keep appointments on time.
Reps with a tablet who note a buyer's product, line speed and timing for your sales engineer.
Send the machine listWhat runs, when it runs and what it packs.
Walk the guard linesRail spots, demo times and the lead form, set before doors.
Every lead taggedProduct, speed and timing noted for your engineers.
Most of the planning lands between spring and early September. Checked items stay ticked on this device.
The halls sit on the Las Vegas Convention Center campus off Paradise Road. Our Las Vegas trade show models and booth staff page lists every show the same local crew covers. Exhibitors who also sell into warehouses book us for ProMat booth staff in Chicago, and food and beverage brands meet us again at Natural Products Expo West staffing in Anaheim.
Walkthrough once your machines are in place: guard lines, demo timetable, spec cards and the lead form checked against your brief.
Crews on the floor in the North, West, Central or South Lower Hall, plus hosts for suite meetings nearby.
Customer dinners, distributor receptions and hotel suite meetings across Las Vegas.
Which PACK EXPO is next? PACK EXPO International 2026 took place October 18–21 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The next big edition is PACK EXPO Las Vegas, September 27–29, 2027, and PMMI also lists PACK EXPO Southeast in Atlanta for April 12–14, 2027.
Crew sizes we suggest for each footprint, with day and show totals at the flat rate.
| Booth | Typical crew per shift | People | Per day | Whole show |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10×10 materials booth | A booth rep and a brand ambassador | 2 | $1,360 | $4,080 |
| 10×20 with one small machine | A rail host, a rep and an ambassador | 3 | $2,040 | $6,120 |
| 20×20 with a running line | A rail host, two reps and a greeter | 4 | $2,720 | $8,160 |
| 20×40 with two lines and a pod | A rail host per line, two reps, one meeting host, one greeter | 6 | $4,080 | $12,240 |
| Island with several lines | Rail host on each of three lines, three reps, a pair of meeting hosts, one greeter, one ambassador | 10 | $6,800 | $20,400 |
| Awards or press block only | A single spokesmodel for photos (one day, four hours or more) | 1 | $680 | $2,040 |
8-hour days × 3 show days × $85 per person per hour. No travel, hotel or agency markup.
A 20×40 booth with two running lines and a meeting pod needs six people: two rail hosts, two reps, a meeting host and a greeter. Here is that crew hired in Las Vegas next to the same six flown in.
| PACK EXPO 20×40, three show days | Cost |
|---|---|
| Purple local staff | |
| Travel, hotel, per-diem | $0 |
| Your PACK EXPO total |
| Typical fly-in agency, same team | Cost |
|---|---|
| Staff hours at $85 | |
| Round-trip flights ~$370 each | |
| Hotel Near the LVCC, late September · ~$260/night | |
| Per-diem ~$86/day | |
| Fly-in total |
How the choices stack up for PACK EXPO Las Vegas exhibitors, row by row.
| Purple local crew | Fly-in staffing agency | General temp agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly rate | $85 per person, every role | Agency rate plus travel markup | Low hourly, untrained for booths |
| Getting staff here | They commute in | Flights (~$370) and hotel nights (~$260) | Local, but unscreened |
| PACK EXPO venue know-how | Works these halls all year | Learns the venue on show day | Hit or miss |
| The PACK EXPO edge | Rail spots, demo times and the lead form, set before doors. | Not local | Not specialised |
| Product briefing | Included before day one | Varies by agency | Rarely |
| Scanner and follow-up | Notes in the scanner for sales | Depends on the team | Untrained |
| No-show plan | Briefed local within two hours | Usually none mid-show | Next available temp |
| Exhibit and staff together | Design, build and staff | People only | People only |
Fly-in costs use the same typical PACK EXPO rates as the budget above. Other agencies’ pricing varies.
A few short questions. Asking costs nothing.
We’ll email your quote within 24 hours, usually much sooner. Need it now? Call (800) 994-8030.
Prefer the phone? Dial (800) 994-8030 and mention PACK EXPO.
Each staffer is $85 an hour and every shift runs at least four hours. Rail hosts, reps, greeters, meeting hosts and models share that rate. The people are Las Vegas locals, so airfare and hotels never show up on the bill.
September 27–29, 2027, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Hall hours are 9 am–5 pm on Monday and Tuesday and 9 am–3 pm on Wednesday. PMMI runs the Las Vegas show every other year; PACK EXPO International fills the even years in Chicago.
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, produces PACK EXPO Las Vegas and the other PACK EXPO shows. The 2025 Las Vegas edition drew 30,000+ attendees and 2,300+ exhibitors.
No. Your own engineers start, run and clear every machine. Our staff host the visitors around it: they hold the viewing rail, explain the run in plain words, scan badges and book follow-ups.
Start with one rail host per running line and one rep per spec bar. From 20×20 upward a greeter helps, and booked meetings call for a host at the pod. Try the line-check planner above for your own numbers.
No. PMMI does not allow soliciting in aisles, public spaces or other booths. Our greeters work from the edge of your booth and invite visitors in from there.
Closed-toe shoes, hair tied back and no loose scarves or dangling jewelry near a line. We pair that with your look: polos and khakis, work shirts, or a smarter outfit for press moments.
Yes. Plan an exhibitor badge for every staffer through your exhibitor account. We send you the names well before the show.
Aim for early summer 2027 to get first pick. Later requests are fine too, and a rush crew can be arranged on 72 hours of notice.
Standby people stay on call in Las Vegas through all three show days. Should the briefed replacement take longer than two hours to reach you, that shift is on us.
No. Exhibitors hire Purple Exhibits on their own; we have no tie to PACK EXPO or to PMMI, which runs it.
Right here: send the quote form or phone us. The crew is based in Las Vegas and works all four LVCC halls, and nothing is added for travel.
Sure. A single show day, one press or awards block, or a single evening all work. Four hours is the shortest shift, at $85 an hour per person.
Models cost what every other role costs: $85 an hour. An eight-hour day with one spokesmodel comes to $680, and travel is never charged.
Yes. Purple designs and builds exhibits too, from machine plinths and viewing rails to meeting pods, so the booth and the crew come from one team with one point of contact.
A lot of packaging deals close over dinner or in a suite. The rate and the brief stay the same off the floor.
Greeting, seating plans and a small gift for plant teams.
We send: HostessesPrivate walk-throughs of a new line for key accounts.
We send: Meeting hosts, booth repsA launch moment with press and your content team.
We send: Spokesmodels, presentersBadge check and seating for a training or talk your company runs.
We send: Registration staffDoor list, wristbands and a photo backdrop for your distributors.
We send: Door hosts, ambassadorsStaffing by show
Las Vegas and this show
Staffing by role
Purple Exhibits is an independent exhibit and staffing company. We staff exhibitors at PACK EXPO Las Vegas; we are not affiliated with PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the organizer of PACK EXPO. Show names belong to their owners.
Send your booth plan and machine list. A PACK EXPO price within 24 hours.
Let’s get right on that answer for you: