Purple Exhibits, a full-service exhibition booth builder and Las Vegas trade show exhibit company, has announced that Key Account Manager Joey Bartman will provide expert oversight across every Purple-managed project for KBIS 2027. This strategic move reinforces the company's commitment to delivering turnkey solutions for exhibitors in the kitchen and bath industry.
Bartman will extend his established role as Key Account Manager to cover the company's complete portfolio of KBIS projects. He will collaborate with the dedicated account managers, project managers, designers, engineers, fabricators, logistics coordinators, and installation professionals assigned to each exhibit. Each KBIS client will retain a dedicated team focused on its specific project, while Bartman's involvement adds an additional layer of industry knowledge, strategic guidance, and quality control across those teams.
"KBIS exhibitors are presenting highly detailed products in one of the most visually competitive environments in the trade show industry," said Itzy Holczler, Head of Sales at Purple Exhibits. "Joey understands the show, the kitchen and bath industry, and the complicated details behind these projects. His oversight gives every team an experienced resource who can answer difficult questions, identify challenges early, and help ensure that nothing important gets overlooked."
Purple Exhibits has extensive experience producing custom KBIS exhibits for cabinetry, appliance, plumbing, surface, hardware, and home-product brands. At KBIS 2026, the company managed fabrication, production, shipping, logistics, installation, and on-site execution for Fabuwood's large-scale immersive exhibit. That completed exhibit received official recognition as the Best Large Booth at KBIS 2026, an honor acknowledging its creativity, craftsmanship, visual impact, and visitor experience.
The Fabuwood exhibit featured detailed cabinetry installations, immersive product presentations, and multiple lifestyle environments. Each space carried its own atmosphere and personality while contributing to a single connected brand story. Producing a custom KBIS exhibit booth at that scale requires accurate engineering, skilled fabrication, careful product coordination, organized packing, reliable freight, professional installation, and continuous communication across multiple teams. Purple Exhibits applies that experience to every KBIS project, from flexible rental booths to major custom island exhibits.
KBIS 2027 will take place February 2-4, 2027, in Las Vegas as part of Design & Construction Week. The event draws kitchen and bath manufacturers, designers, architects, builders, dealers, retailers, and other decision-makers seeking new products, technologies, and business partnerships. For exhibitors, three days on the KBIS show floor can shape an entire year of sales, relationships, and brand visibility. Those outcomes depend on work that begins months before the show opens.
Bartman's oversight will include reviewing each brand's exhibit goals and overall strategy, advising teams on KBIS-specific rules, identifying technical and logistical challenges early, reviewing floor plans and visitor-flow strategies, evaluating product displays, guiding decisions involving working displays and utilities, supporting account managers with complex client questions, monitoring critical schedules, reviewing design and production milestones, coordinating solutions across internal departments, confirming show readiness before shipping, providing guidance during installation, and helping teams resolve unexpected on-site challenges.
"My responsibility is to help every Purple team deliver its strongest possible project," Bartman said. "Each client will have dedicated professionals managing the complete exhibit. I will provide an additional set of experienced eyes, help answer the difficult questions, and make sure our KBIS knowledge benefits every project."
Kitchen and bath exhibits frequently involve technical requirements that must be addressed well before many exhibitors anticipate. A cabinet wall, working faucet, built-in appliance, heavy countertop, stone surface, illuminated product display, or hanging sign can affect structural engineering, booth weight, packing, shipping, material handling, electrical service, plumbing, and installation labor. These requirements should be addressed during the initial booth design process, not after the exhibit arrives in Las Vegas. Exhibitors must also account for costs beyond the physical booth itself, including freight, drayage, electrical service, plumbing, rigging, internet, cleaning, labor, on-site supervision, and return shipping.
Purple Exhibits combines show-specific knowledge with complete turnkey management, giving clients one experienced partner from initial concept through the final day of dismantle. The company provides everything required to move a KBIS exhibit booth from first concept to a completed show-floor experience, including custom design, fabrication, rentals, cabinetry displays, working product demonstrations, strategic floor plans, graphics, AV, lighting, flooring, engineering, show documentation, freight coordination, installation, on-site support, and more. Rather than coordinating separate vendors, exhibitors can manage the complete project through one experienced KBIS exhibit company.
Companies preparing for KBIS 2027 can request a planning consultation with Purple Exhibits. Each client will receive a complete, dedicated project team supported by Bartman's additional KBIS guidance and oversight. Early planning is strongly recommended for exhibitors requiring custom fabrication, working product displays, plumbing or electrical connections, heavy products, LED walls, hanging signs, or complex installation. Discover Purple Exhibits' KBIS exhibit booth design, fabrication, and turnkey services or call (800) 994-8030 to begin planning.
