How do you feel about exhibitions? Dread the very thought of them? Constantly look for ways to cost-justify your company not attending? Thought so – but the people that run the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham seem to believe that we are all so desperate to get into their space that according to the Sunday Teelgraph City Diary they have demanded UKP100 from Joe Corr, managing director of WordStar International Ltd because at the Which Computer? Show he had the temerity to hand out sweets on the stand and bring champagne for his hard-pressed and footsore staff: the UKP100 is for the two-bit outfit that has managed to wangle the catering concession at the National Exhibition Centre and Joe Corr is reported to be robustly refusing to countenance paying the protection money.
