Warning - Malicious companies targeting CPhI/P-MEC exhibitors
Some of our exhibitors have been fraudulently targeted by malicious companies.
EMERGENCY WARNING: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SIGN ANY FORMS FROM THEM
Expo Guide/FairGuide.com/ExpoFair.com/Construct Data Verlag target companies through legitimate exhibition guides. Their current activities cover companies throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.
THese companies claim to offer online listing services. They use a form which resembles an organiser's free catalogue listing service, inviting exhibitors to complete the form for an entry in an on-line directory. Unsuspecting exhibitors who sign and return the form are then contracted into a three-year, non-retractable agreement, which could cost you a significant amount of money, with no foreseeable benefits. Included in their group is debt collection agency Gravis Inkasso Gmbh and Swiss debt collection agency Premiumn Recovery AG (a Construct Data subsidiary) which works in partnership with the various guides to intimidate exhibitors into paying.
These publications have no connection with us or any of our events. We strongly advise our exhibitors, and the entire exhibition community, to be most vigilant against this and similar organisations.There are many so-called guides that mail deceptive contracts and then harass those who sign them in error for money. However the sheer scale and systematic way in which these guides attack exhibitors is outrageous.
Additional information on the Expo Guide, FairGuide and other Construct Data Verlag publications is available at:
www.stopecg.org
If you have been approached by this organisation or have any queries about this, please contact us at cphi@ubm.com or +31 20 40 99 45 44.
IMPORTANT NOTICE- CPhI Middleeast
It has been brought to our attention that an event titled ‘CPhI Middleeast 2011’ has been scheduled to take place in Iran in January 2011.
UBM Live wishes to make it clear that it is NOT involved with, associated with, nor endorses this event.
UBM Live places great value in its CPhI brand and on the return on investment that its events deliver to exhibitors and visitors. We would advise anyone approached by representatives of this event, purporting to represent UBM Live or CPhI, that we deem such use of the CPhI brand as illegal.
If you have been approached by this organisation or have any queries about this, please contact us at cphi@ubm.com or +31 20 40 99 45 44.
