IBIE 2028Exhibitor guide: booth costs, dates and deadlines
- Show dates
- September 10–13, 2028
- Venue
- Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
- Exhibitors 2025
- 1,005
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Quick answers
IBIE 2028 in 30 seconds
The short version for exhibitors. Every figure has its source further down the page.
- When is IBIE 2028?
- September 10–13, 2028, at Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas.
- How big is IBIE?
- 19,000+ attendees, 1,005 exhibitors (2025 edition).
- What does booth space cost?
- $37.75 per sq ft members, $49 non-members, 2025 rate, paid to the organizer.
- What does a 10×20 booth cost all-in?
- $7,500 – $15,000 for a Purple rental with design, graphics, lighting, install and dismantle. Space and show services are billed by the show.
- What is the next exhibitor deadline?
- Space application and deposit due by 11:59 p.m. CT for the priority call-in: February 19, 2027.
Everything about IBIE 2028 in one place
IBIE 2028 fact sheet
| Official name | IBIE 2028, the International Baking Industry Exposition |
|---|---|
| Dates | September 10–13, 2028 |
| Exhibit hall open | Expo hall open September 10–13, Sunday to Wednesday |
| Venue | Las Vegas Convention Center 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109 |
| Organizer | American Bakers Association (ABA) and Bakery Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA), supported by the Retail Bakers of America (RBA) |
| Size (2025) | 19,000+ attendees · 1,005 exhibitors source |
| Who attends | Bakery owners and executives, plant managers, production leaders, R&D and food safety teams, engineers, purchasing teams and pastry chefs |
| Booth space | $37.75 per sq ft members, $49 non-members, 2025 rate source |
| Next deadline | Space application and deposit due by 11:59 p.m. CT for the priority call-in: February 19, 2027 source |
| Nearest airport | Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) 3.5 miles from the LVCC, with most hotels within a 15-minute drive, per the LVCVA |
| Hotels | onPeak, IBIE's official housing provider and the only hotel provider the show endorses Official hotel page → |
| Official website | bakingexpo.com |
Official IBIE resources
IBIE 2028 calendar
IBIE 2028 dates and deadlines
The dates the organizer has published, in order, each linked to the page that states it. The next one is highlighted.
- Space application and deposit due by 11:59 p.m. CT for the priority call-inNon-member companies that exhibited at IBIE 2025 source
- Space application deadline; members and returning exhibitors who miss it move to General Space SelectionABA, BEMA and RBA members and returning exhibitors source
- IBIEducate and partner education programs beginAttendees and exhibitors source
- IBIE 2028 expo hall opensExhibitors and buyers source
- Final expo hall day and last day of IBIE 2028Exhibitors and buyers source
01 Purple at IBIE 2028
Bring the running line to IBIE 2028 and we build the Las Vegas booth around it
Plant managers, engineers and bakery owners come to IBIE to watch equipment run and taste what an ingredient does, so we design around the working machine and the finished loaf. In 2025, uncrated machinery skipped Freeman's advance warehouse for its own LVCC target time; our Las Vegas crew times each install to the machine's arrival.
- Sept 10–13, 2028 · LVCC
- 1,005 exhibitors in 2025
- Held every three years
What makes IBIE different, and how we build for it
IBIE comes around once every three years, so buyers arrive ready to purchase and suppliers save their debuts for it.The American Bakers Association and BEMA own the nonprofit show and put every dollar of proceeds back into the grain-based food industry. In 2025 the sold-out floor set a record of 451,100 square feet and carried about 7 million pounds of technology, equipment and supplies. Commercial bakers fill the Wholesale Bakers Center, and the Innovation Showcase gathers products never before seen at IBIE. In 2025 retail owners crowded the four stages of the RBA Retail Bakers Center and bread bakers competed for the World Bread Awards USA.
The machine running at a believable speed, guarding, changeover and sanitation access they can inspect up close, and footprint, utility and throughput figures they can carry into a capital request.
Baked proof of what an ingredient does to crumb, sugar or shelf life, specification sheets within reach, and a quiet seat to talk trials, supply security and price.
Equipment sized for a shop or a mid-size plant, demos they can try with their own hands, Spanish-speaking staff and straight answers on parts, service and shipping to their country.
Your team in Las Vegas
Two shops, one project manager, every hall
We build in our own production shop in Fishkill, NY, and our Las Vegas hub, ship to the Las Vegas Convention Center, and install with our own project manager on the floor and vetted local labor. Predictable 30–45-day turnarounds, secure storage and pre-show QA.
Your team walks into a lit, stocked booth. You just show up.
Inside IBIE 2028
Rules that shape your booth
In 2025 Freeman's advance warehouse took crated freight but no uncrated machinery, which came direct to the LVCC on its target date, and every exhibit with machinery filed a freight survey. We crate graphics for the warehouse and give each machine its own carrier.
The member booth rate applies only if ABA, BEMA or RBA membership stays active for 2026, 2027 and 2028; a company that drops it is rebilled at the non-member rate. We price your space both ways until membership is settled.
Cannabis edibles supplies and services is an approved exhibit category, yet cannabis and CBD may not be possessed, used or consumed at IBIE 2028 or anywhere in LVCC buildings. We build edibles displays with non-infused product and run depositors on plain batter.
Under the 2025 rules, full-time staff could install the display, plug into 120V/20A service, hang small clip-on lights and hand-carry through main entrance doors but not docks. We schedule your team for those tasks and our Las Vegas crew for everything else.
Subsidiaries sharing one contiguous booth each buy an Additional Listing, $2,750 for members or $3,000 for non-members, and earn no priority points; separate booths need separate contracts. We zone shared islands so every listed brand gets its own wall.
Programs worth planning for
Powered by Sosland Publishing, it gathers ingredients, equipment, packaging and safety products never before seen at IBIE in one hub; in 2025 entries ran in Sosland's INSIDE IBIE Pre-Show Guide, the show dailies and the Official Show Directory.
Established in 2010, the industry awards honor suppliers and bakeries for sustainability, packaging innovation, sanitation and food safety, workforce development, plant efficiency and automation; in 2025 more than 65 suppliers and bakeries were recognized.
Companies holding annual, board or customer meetings alongside IBIE 2028 get free or discounted meeting space, assigned first come, first served and scheduled outside expo hours, with IBIE staff arranging the rooms.
A hub inside the expo hall offering translation, complimentary meeting space and refreshments during expo hours to attendees with international badges and the suppliers they bring as guests.
IBIE is the only major trade show dedicated to grain-based foods and runs once every three years; choose it over IDDBA when your customers bake bread, buns and snacks at production scale rather than buy finished goods for supermarket cases. Compare every food and beverage show we build for →
02 Booths & pricing for IBIE 2028
Popular booth sizes at IBIE
IBIE sells space by the square foot, and its priority-points table credits past footprints from 100 to more than 4,000 square feet, so the floor runs from 10×10 ingredient booths to multi-machine islands. We recommend a 10×20 for an ingredient supplier showing baked results, and a 20×30 or larger island when a line has to run.
A deck oven or proofer at one end, a bake-off counter for ingredient trials and a two-seat table for R&D and purchasing talks.
Shown: Ducon, a Purple inline booth
See 10×20 rental booths →
Thirty feet of frontage lets a compact machine on its plinth, a hands-on bake counter for retail owners and a seated quote table with English and Spanish spec sheets each face the aisle.
Shown: NIMS Food, a Purple inline booth
See 10×30 rental booths →
One working machine with guarding and an operator aisle, open on two sides, plus a spec wall and a hanging sign where the hall allows rigging.
Shown: Bachoco USA, a Purple island exhibit
See 20×20 rental booths →
A connected run of mixing, forming, baking or packaging equipment behind viewing rails, with a meeting room for capital-purchase conversations.
Shown: Amazon, a Purple large-format exhibit
See 20×30 rental booths →In Purple's price
- Design and a 3D rendering, revised until it is right
- Structure, printed graphics, counters and storage as specified
- Lighting and power distribution inside the booth
- Installation and dismantle, with our project manager on the floor
- Every show-service order and deadline tracked for you
Billed by the show and its contractor
- Booth space (paid to the organizer)
- Material handling / drayage, where the space rate does not include it
- Electrical service, internet and rigging
- Booth cleaning and any union labor the venue requires
Rates to plan with for IBIE:
- Booth space $37.75 per sq ft members, $49 non-members, 2025 rate source
- Material handling Included in the 2025 space rate, warehouse or direct source
- Additional company listing $2,750 member, $3,000 non-member, 2028 rules source
- Exhibitor badges 3 free per 150 sq ft of space, 2025 prospectus source
We estimate every one of these on your proposal, so the total is on paper before you sign.
Prices are all-in 2026 rental ranges for design, structure, graphics, installation and dismantle; custom builds are quoted per project. Get an exact number for IBIE with the booth cost calculator or read the 2026 booth cost guide.
Send the show, your booth size and what the space needs to do. We reply within one business day and send a rendering and a fixed proposal, usually within a week. No charge.
Your team walks into a lit, stocked booth. You just show up.
03 Built by Purple
Booths we have designed, built and installed
Case study · KLEEMANN
KLEEMANN at a industrial technology exhibition
An interactive booth for a global elevator manufacturer: digital simulations, real product showcases and a floor plan that guided visitors from first step to last.
Different industry, same problem: KLEEMANN paired real product showcases with simulations and a guided floor plan, the job an oven or depositor builder faces at IBIE.
Read the KLEEMANN case study All case studies →“If you’re looking for a trade show booth expert who shows up and gets the job done right, Purple Exhibits is the real deal.”
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04 Designing for bakery equipment, ingredient and packaging suppliers at IBIE
Four things we get right for IBIE exhibitors
1Plan the floor around machine weight
IBIE 2025 put about 7 million pounds of technology, equipment and supplies on display, and Freeman required a freight survey from every exhibit with machinery so it could bring the right lift equipment. We send your machine weights, dimensions and lift points to the freight team ahead of move-in, then lay out plinths, guarding and walkways around each machine's spot.
2Draw every power drop in advance
Freeman's 2025 electrical bundle folded cords, quad boxes and cables into one outlet price and asked for a layout wherever machinery needed a drop. We draw that layout from your spec sheets, list voltage and phase per machine, and pre-wire equipment so the line runs when the expo hall opens on September 10.
3Give the Innovation Showcase entry a home
Innovation Showcase entries must be products never before seen at IBIE, and in 2025 each one earned a placard for the exhibitor's booth plus a poster display outside the halls. We build a lit plinth for that placard right beside the working product, so attendees arriving from the showcase find the exact item in seconds.
4Speak to buyers from 96 countries
In 2025, 28% of IBIE buyers came from abroad, 74% of them from the Americas, led by Mexico, Canada and Brazil, and Chef Talks by Mexipan ran in Spanish. We print key specifications in English and Spanish with metric units and add a seated table where your team can work through quotes with distributors and agents.
Concept rendering
Every proposal comes with a rendering like this
You see the booth in 3D before we cut a single panel: layout, graphics, lighting and product positions, revised until it is right. Shown: a Purple concept for Umalaxmi Organics Pvt. Ltd.
Start my IBIE concept05 Las Vegas Convention Center · Las Vegas
Logistics for IBIE 2028, handled
Under IBIE's 2025 all-in-one pricing, the space rate covered material handling: Freeman unloaded every shipment, returned empty crates and spotted each machine once, while uncrated machinery skipped the advance warehouse and checked in at the Las Vegas Convention Center marshalling yard on its target date. Las Vegas labor jurisdiction leaves your full-time employees free to assemble and strike the display with hand tools, while forklifts, pallet jacks and hired labor belong to Teamsters Local 631. Purple files as your Exhibitor Appointed Contractor and draws the electrical layout; our Las Vegas crew then installs, with our Las Vegas shop on call overnight for fixes.
Hall rules, drayage estimates and freight deadlines for this building are in our Las Vegas Convention Center exhibitor guide.
Hall guide
IBIE 2028 exhibitors pick space by priority points, and the 2025 expo filled the LVCC's West and North Halls. Here is what those halls, and the freight route into them, mean for a booth built around machinery.
Opened in 2021: about 600,000 square feet with tall clear heights, spans free of columns, plentiful rigging points and the strongest truck dock access at the LVCC.
Our advice: The best hall for a full production line and a hanging sign; we still check rigging points over your booth number before pricing a sign.
About 409,000 square feet joined to the Central Hall, with dense floor plans and tighter aisles at most shows.
Our advice: Keep bake-off counters and sample hand-offs inside your booth line so a crowd around a demo never blocks the aisle.
In 2025 carriers checked in at the marshalling yard at their target time, received window cards and waited for dock space before Teamsters unloaded them.
Our advice: Freeman's 2025 advice was to allow three to four hours after target time for delivery, so we start our crew only once your machine is on the floor.
The 2025 BEST in Baking awards ceremony ran here, beside the 4,000-square-foot West Hall Lobby Spectacular, prime advertising space just inside the West Hall entrance.
Our advice: If your company sponsors in the lobby, we match its graphics to your booth so attendees connect the two before they reach the floor.
What Purple handles
- Machine freight data, delivery windows and carrier bookings
- Electrical layouts with a drop marked for every machine
- Exhibitor Appointed Contractor filing and LVCC labor planning
- Machine plinths, guarding rails and bake-off counters built in house
- English and Spanish spec graphics for international buyers
- Storage at our Las Vegas hub between IBIE editions
Timeline, counted back from move-in
Space application and deposit for non-member companies that exhibited at IBIE 2025: February 19, 2027. Due by 11:59 p.m. CT; new exhibitors apply through General Space Selection, so send us your footprint goals and machine list before you apply.
We need design sign-off by late June 2028.
- By February 19, 2027Applications and deposits due by 11:59 p.m. CT from non-member companies that exhibited at IBIE 2025.
- Late June 2028Design sign-off; machine list, weights, power drops and guarding plan locked for freight and electrical orders.
- July to mid-August 2028Production, 30 to 45 days: plinths, counters and graphics built and test-fitted around your machine footprints.
- About three weeks before move-inCrated booth ships to the advance warehouse; each machine gets its own carrier booking to the LVCC.
- Days before September 10Move-in; machines are spotted, our Las Vegas crew builds around them and every drop is tested under load.
- September 10–13, 2028Expo hall days with your Purple project manager on the floor; dismantle and return freight once the hall closes September 13.
Purple planning timeline. Official move-in, freight target and order deadlines come from your exhibitor kit and assigned schedule; we confirm them against your booth when you book.
Printable budget & deadline sheetTravel to IBIE 2028
Getting to IBIE 2028: airport, hotels and parking
Fly in
Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)
3.5 miles from the LVCC, with most hotels within a 15-minute drive, per the LVCVA
Stay
onPeak, IBIE's official housing provider and the only hotel provider the show endorses
Park
In 2025 attendees paid $15 with in and out privileges in the Diamond lot, closest to West Hall, and Silver 1, closest to North Hall
Travel facts from bakingexpo.com.
IBIE by the numbers
IBIE year by year
How IBIE 2028 compares with other food and beverage shows
The food and beverage shows closest to IBIE on the calendar, with the latest size each organizer has published. Each name opens our exhibitor guide for that show.
| Show | Dates | City | Latest published size |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFT FIRSTInstitute of Food Technologists (IFT) | July 11–14, 2027 | Chicago, IL | – |
| IAFPInternational Association for Food Protection (IAFP) | July 17–21, 2027 | Kansas City, MO | – |
| Summer Fancy Food ShowSpecialty Food Association | July 25–27, 2027 | New York, NY | – |
| California Restaurant ShowRestaurant Events | September 12–14, 2027 | Anaheim, CA | 7,000+ attendees · 275 companies (2026) |
| Newtopia NowNew Hope Network | September 14–16, 2027 | Rosemont, IL | 435+ brands (2026) |
| NACS ShowNACS | October 5–8, 2027 | Atlanta, GA | 25,572 attendees · 1,090 exhibitors (2026) |
| Global Produce & Floral ShowInternational Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) | October 20–22, 2027 | Atlanta, GA | 3,500+ buyers · Nearly 1,100 exhibitors (2025) |
| Food Production Solutions ShowMesse Frankfurt Inc. and the Food Production Solutions Association (FPSA) | October 26–28, 2027 | Chicago, IL | 300+ exhibitors advertised for EATS 2025 |
| PLMA Private Label ShowPrivate Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) | November 15–16, 2027 | Rosemont, IL | 14,000+ attendees · 1,900+ exhibitors (2025) |
| IBIEAmerican Bakers Association (ABA) and Bakery Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA) | September 10–13, 2028 | Las Vegas, NV | 19,000+ attendees · 1,005 exhibitors (2025) |
IBIE exhibitor questions
Questions exhibitors ask us before IBIE
How much does a booth at IBIE 2028 cost?
For an equipment maker running a machine, plan on a custom 20×20 island at $50,000 to $120,000; an ingredient supplier baking samples usually fits a 10×20 rental at $7,500 to $15,000. Guarding, platforms and power drops move the number most here. Space is extra: at 2025 rates a 20×20 cost $15,100 for ABA, BEMA and RBA members and $19,600 for everyone else.
What is the deadline to apply for IBIE 2028 booth space?
IBIE's priority-points page sets 11:59 p.m. CT on February 19, 2027 as the application and deposit deadline for non-member companies that exhibited at IBIE 2025. General Space Selection is open to new exhibitors and to anyone who misses the April 7, 2027 application deadline, with space assigned in order of application and deposit.
Can we rent a booth for IBIE 2028, and what does a rental include?
Yes. We rent the structure, lit graphics, counters and machine plinths, then ship, install and dismantle them on one fixed proposal, so nothing of yours sits in storage for three years waiting for the next IBIE. Equipment makers often rent the frame and let the machine be the centerpiece, while ingredient suppliers add a custom bake-off counter from our shop.
Can our own staff set up our booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center?
Under the 2025 labor rules, your full-time employees could install and dismantle the display, hang non-electrical signs, plug into 120-volt, 20-amp service and hand-carry items through the main entrance doors, never through the docks. Forklifts and freight handling at the LVCC belong to Teamsters Local 631. With Purple filed as your Exhibitor Appointed Contractor, our Las Vegas crew handles everything beyond those tasks.
How do we get heavy baking equipment onto the IBIE floor?
In 2025 Freeman's advance warehouse refused uncrated machinery, so every machine came straight to the LVCC on its assigned target date, checked in at the marshalling yard and waited for a dock. A one-time spotting of each machine, supervised by the exhibitor, came with the space. We book a carrier for each machine, start our crew once it is unloaded and build the booth around it.
Is drayage included in IBIE booth space?
It was in 2025: IBIE's all-in-one rate covered unlimited material handling, advance-warehouse or direct delivery, storage and return of empty crates, and lead retrieval. Extra charges came from missing the schedule, such as freight arriving off target or after the warehouse cutoff. We weigh, label and route every crate to its target, and list electrical and carpet on your proposal.
Which hall will our IBIE 2028 booth be in?
Priority exhibitors pick their own IBIE 2028 space in a scheduled call-in ranked by priority points; later space goes out in order of application. The 2025 expo used the West and North Halls: the newer West Hall has tall clear heights and the strongest dock access on campus, while North Hall floor plans run denser. We design to your booth number and its hall.
Can we use our IBIE booth at other shows?
IBIE returns only once every three years, so a booth sitting idle in between wastes money. We design the frame to reconfigure for IPPE in Atlanta, IDDBA or PACK EXPO Las Vegas, refresh graphics for each audience and store it at our Las Vegas hub until IBIE comes back to the LVCC.
We are coming from outside the US. Can you build our IBIE booth?
Yes. Nearly three in ten IBIE 2025 buyers came from outside the U.S., so an exhibitor shipping from abroad is in good company. We handle the US side: freight to the advance warehouse once your broker clears it, installation by our Las Vegas crew and storage after the show. For machinery, we book the domestic carrier to the LVCC.
When is IBIE 2028?
The IBIE 2028 expo hall opens Sunday, September 10 and closes Wednesday, September 13, 2028, with IBIEducate and partner education programs starting a day earlier, on Saturday, September 9. Exhibitor deadlines land far sooner: non-member companies that exhibited in 2025 file their space application and deposit by 11:59 p.m. CT on February 19, 2027.
Where is IBIE 2028 held?
IBIE 2028 returns to the Las Vegas Convention Center campus at 3150 Paradise Road, home to IBIE in 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. The 2025 expo filled the West and North Halls, linked by free Vegas Loop rides. Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) lies 3.5 miles away by the LVCVA's count, and onPeak books the official IBIE hotel block.
How many people attend IBIE?
IBIE 2025 drew over 19,000 attendees from 96 countries to meet 1,005 exhibitors, 484 of them first-timers, on a record 451,100 square feet. Close to 20,000 professionals registered in 2022, more than 20,000 walked the 2019 hall, and the 2016 show counted approximately 23,000 registered attendees and more than 1,000 exhibitors.
Is IBIE open to the public?
No. IBIE is a trade event, not a consumer show, though you do not need a baking job to register: people from outside the industry choose the Allied/Other category. Registrants may bring spouses or guests over 13 for the registration fee, and no child under 13, infants in strollers included, may enter the show floor.
Who organizes IBIE?
The American Bakers Association (ABA) and the Bakery Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA) own IBIE, with support from the Retail Bakers of America (RBA). ABA and BEMA founded it in 1920 so bakers could meet suppliers, and the nonprofit expo returns all proceeds to the industry. Members of the three groups get priority space selection and discounted booth rates.
Before you sign with anyone
Five questions to ask any exhibit builder for IBIE:
- Is every fee on the proposal, including what the show contractor bills?
- Who builds the booth: your own shop or a subcontractor?
- Will your project manager be on the floor for install and dismantle?
- What exactly is in the rental, and what is billed by the show?
- Where does the booth go after the show, and what does storage cost?
Common situations
Already own a booth? We refresh the graphics, repair what is worn, ship it, install it and store it between shows. You keep the structure you paid for.
Exhibiting from outside the US? We are your team on the ground: freight to the advance warehouse, show-service orders, installation and storage, with one project manager answering your emails in your time zone.
Short on time? A rental with your graphics can be ready in two to three weeks. We tell you on the first call what is realistic for your date.
Get a proposal
Tell us about your IBIE booth
What happens next
- We reply within one business day with questions about your products, goals and footprint.
- You get a concept rendering and a fixed proposal, usually within a week. Every last fee listed upfront, in full, on paper.
- We build in 30–45 days, ship to the advance warehouse and install before the hall opens.
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