Purple Exhibits, a full-service KBIS exhibit booth builder and Las Vegas trade show exhibit company, has announced that Key Account Manager Joey Bartman will provide expert oversight across every Purple-managed project for KBIS 2027. This move extends Bartman's established role to cover the company's complete portfolio of KBIS projects, adding an extra layer of kitchen and bath industry knowledge, strategic guidance, and quality control.
Each KBIS client will continue working with a dedicated team focused on its specific project, but Bartman's involvement ensures that every team has access to an experienced resource who can answer difficult questions, identify challenges early, and help ensure that nothing important gets overlooked. According to Itzy Holczler, Head of Sales at Purple Exhibits, "KBIS exhibitors are presenting highly detailed products in one of the most visually competitive environments in the trade show industry. Joey understands the show, the kitchen and bath industry, and the complicated details behind these projects."
Purple Exhibits has extensive experience producing custom KBIS exhibits for cabinetry, appliance, plumbing, surface, hardware, and home-product brands. At KBIS 2026, the company managed fabrication, production, shipping, logistics, installation, and on-site execution for Fabuwood's large-scale immersive exhibit, which received official recognition as the Best Large Booth at KBIS 2026. The award acknowledged the exhibit's creativity, craftsmanship, visual impact, and visitor experience.
Producing a custom KBIS exhibit booth at that scale requires accurate engineering, skilled fabrication, careful product coordination, organized packing, reliable freight, professional installation, and continuous communication across multiple teams. Purple Exhibits applies that experience to every KBIS project, from flexible rental booths to major custom island exhibits. At KBIS, visual impact is expected, and standing apart from the competition is the real challenge.
KBIS 2027 will take place February 2-4, 2027, in Las Vegas as part of Design & Construction Week. The event draws kitchen and bath manufacturers, designers, architects, builders, dealers, retailers, and other decision-makers seeking new products, technologies, and business partnerships. For exhibitors, three days on the KBIS show floor can shape an entire year of sales, relationships, and brand visibility. Those outcomes depend on work that begins months before the show opens.
Bartman's oversight will include reviewing each brand's exhibit goals and overall strategy, advising teams on KBIS-specific rules and requirements, identifying technical and logistical challenges early, reviewing floor plans and visitor-flow strategies, evaluating product displays and demonstration areas, guiding decisions involving working displays and utilities, supporting account managers with complex client questions, monitoring critical schedules and show deadlines, reviewing important design and production milestones, coordinating solutions across Purple's internal departments, confirming show readiness before shipping, providing additional guidance during installation, and helping teams resolve unexpected on-site challenges.
"My responsibility is to help every Purple team deliver its strongest possible project," Bartman said. "Each client will have dedicated professionals managing the complete exhibit. I will provide an additional set of experienced eyes, help answer the difficult questions, and make sure our KBIS knowledge benefits every project."
Kitchen and bath exhibits frequently involve technical requirements that must be addressed well before many exhibitors anticipate. A cabinet wall, working faucet, built-in appliance, heavy countertop, stone surface, illuminated product display, or hanging sign is not simply a design element. Each can affect structural engineering, booth weight, packing, shipping, material handling, electrical service, plumbing, and installation labor. These requirements should be addressed during the initial KBIS booth design process, not after the exhibit arrives in Las Vegas.
Exhibitors must also account for costs beyond the physical booth itself, including freight, drayage, electrical service, plumbing, rigging, internet, cleaning, labor, on-site supervision, and return shipping. Working with an experienced KBIS booth builder helps exhibitors identify these requirements early, establish a realistic project budget, and avoid preventable last-minute complications. Purple Exhibits combines show-specific knowledge with complete turnkey management, giving clients one experienced partner from initial concept through the final day of dismantle.
Purple Exhibits provides everything required to move a KBIS exhibit booth from the first concept to a completed show-floor experience. Turnkey services include custom KBIS booth design and exhibit strategy, custom exhibit fabrication and modular booth rentals, cabinetry, appliance and plumbing-fixture displays, countertop, tile and surface integration, working product demonstrations, strategic floor plans and visitor-flow development, exhibit graphics and custom signage, hanging signs and overhead branding, AV, video displays and LED walls, lighting, electrical and plumbing coordination, flooring, furniture and meeting spaces, engineering and show documentation, freight and advance warehouse coordination, material-handling and drayage planning, professional installation and dismantle, on-site supervision and show-floor support, show-service forms and deadline management, and return shipping, storage and exhibit reuse. Rather than coordinating separate designers, fabricators, freight companies, installers, and show-service providers, exhibitors can manage the complete project through one experienced KBIS exhibit company.
Companies preparing for KBIS 2027 can request a planning consultation with Purple Exhibits. Each client will receive a complete, dedicated project team supported by Joey Bartman's additional KBIS guidance and oversight. Early planning is strongly recommended for exhibitors requiring custom fabrication, working product displays, plumbing or electrical connections, heavy products, LED walls, hanging signs, or complex installation. For more information, visit Purple Exhibits or call (800) 994-8030.
