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Portable Displays

Our portable displays are designed for easy installation that also prominently display your brand and messaging. All while lowering your trade show costs.

These displays are excellent for advertising in retail settings, public spaces, and in face-to-face events such as trade shows, media events, fairs, and expos. Best of all, they give you the flexibility and graphic options you need to call attention to your brand. 

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Quality Printing

Nimlok Chicago is part of a select group of printers that can produce consistent, true-to-color graphics with G7 Master Print quality. So, every graphic we produce will look exactly as our clients want it to.

Fast Turnaround

All we need are your graphic files, and we can get started on producing your display. Deadline quickly approaching? Ask about our rush options, too.

Mobile

It’s all in the name. Our portable displays are manufactured with lightweight materials that assist in lowering your overall exhibition costs.

Dummy Proof

Designed and fabricated with the end user in mind, our portable displays are usually set up with one or two people.

Got Questions?

Portable Display FAQs

The practical questions marketing teams ask before adding portable displays to their event toolkit.

Yes. Portable displays are designed for fast, tool-free setup by a single person, often in just a few minutes. Banner stands, retractable displays, and pop-up or tension fabric backwalls are lightweight and intuitive to assemble, with no special skills or installation labor required. They pack down into carry bags or wheeled cases that fit in a car trunk or check on a flight, so you can show up, set up, and be ready without a crew.

Easily, which is the whole point. Most portable displays pack down into padded carry bags or wheeled hard cases that you can roll through an airport, check as luggage, or fit in a car trunk. There’s no freight, no crating, and no drayage fees at the show. That makes portables ideal for fly-in events, regional shows, and teams that travel light and set up on their own.

Portables are perfect for smaller spaces, tight budgets, and travel-heavy schedules, but there are limits. Once you’re filling a 10′×20′ or larger, want a truly custom presence, need integrated AV or lightboxes, or exhibit often enough that a more substantial booth pays off, it’s usually time to step up to a modular or custom exhibit. A good sign you’ve outgrown portable is when you find yourself adding piece after piece to make a small display feel bigger. When that happens, we’ll help you move up to the right system without wasting your earlier investment.

Yes. Through our Fulfillment program, we store and manage in/out shipments of small displays, marketing collateral, and swag for regional events and hotel shows. Your assets live in our 55,000 square foot warehouse, labeled, organized, and protected between events, and you can order them through NimConnect, our online inventory and ordering portal with real-time availability, live quantity updates, and automated tracking. When a show comes up, we pull, pack, and ship on your timeline, then check everything back in when it returns. It’s the easy way to run recurring regional and hotel shows without managing logistics yourself.

Absolutely. Portable displays work anywhere you need a quick, professional branded presence. Common uses include conferences and career fairs, retail and in-store promotions, corporate lobbies and reception areas, sales presentations and client visits, product launches, and community or sponsorship events. Because they set up in minutes and travel easily, the same banner stand, fabric backwall, or tabletop display you use at a trade show can pull double duty across your whole event and marketing calendar.

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