The NEC is the busiest exhibition centre in Europe, staging around 160 trade and consumer exhibitions each year, ranging from world-famous public shows such as Crufts and Clothes Show Live to huge international trade exhibitions like IPEX and Spring Fair, Birmingham.

Over four million people visit the centre each year. And with 21 halls totalling 200,000sqm of exhibition space on a 650-acre site it is also the biggest exhibition centre in the UK.

Most years, the SoEBHC attends Cruft's at the NEC in March.