SDC, Montracon, Don-Bur, Lawrence David and Boalloy. Anyone scouring this year's CV Show exhibitor list for these well-known UK suppliers of trailers and bodies will be disappointed. One reason for their absence and that of several other big names in the same line of business is a familiar complaint: that the large floor area needed to display products of this kind at shows like this is disproportionately costly. But there is more to the no-shows than this, according to Don-Bur marketing manager Richard Owens. "Of course expense is an issue, but in our view it is more to do with rate of innovation," he says.
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