The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has announced that Perton Signs has become one of its marketing partners.

Andrew Kennedy, director of Perton Signs, said, “We are delighted to be recognised as an official marketing partner for ESSA, we have been members of ESSA since its founding and we proudly carry the membership number 001, which we have held since the founding of ESSA and its predecessor BECA. We are pleased to put something back into our association and support an industry that has provided Perton Signs with its raison d'etre for 153 years.

Perton Signs, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2014, was established in 1864 and was incorporated under the Companies Act in 1939 and has been working in the exhibition industry since the early days of the old Agricultural Hall (now the Business Design Centre) and the opening of the Grand Hall, Olympia. The business remains, to this day, an independent family firm.

ESSA director, Andrew Harrison, commented, “Perton Signs is one of the industry's oldest companies and we are delighted to have them on board as marketing partner. They will be helping ESSA to ensure that our brand is consistently represented wherever it is seen across all of our events and meetings. I am very much looking forward to working with Andrew and his team.”