Trade show providers
The stand builders based in Lyon, the Ain, Isère and Loire, and what to check before entrusting the construction of your stand.
Updated September 2026
10 listed providers
Lyon
GL Events Venues is the arm of the GL events group dedicated to managing an international network of event venues. The group's website presents it as one of the group's three complementary divisions, alongside Live and Exhibitions. The legal entity GL Events Venues was created in 2007 and its head office is based in Lyon, like the group's.
Genas
Affaire d'Idées is a stand design and manufacturing agency based in Genas, in the Lyon metropolitan area, founded in 2010. The agency brings together design, manufacturing and logistics in a 1,200 m² workshop where joinery, metalwork, printing and painting are carried out, without outsourcing any production steps. It designs modular or bespoke stands for trade shows, staging for corporate events, as well as showrooms and retail spaces. Affaire d'Idées holds the Better Stand Silver certification, a label for eco-designed stands.
Genas
Alphaexpo is a bespoke stand design agency, founded in 2004 by Pierre-Olivier Debard. The agency is based in Genas (69740), near Lyon, and its registered office is in Gap (05000). Alphaexpo offers three stand ranges (traditional, modular, hybrid), as well as event services (temporary spaces, terraces, showrooms) and retail services (window displays, shop fitting, event furniture). The agency has two in-house production workshops and has completed more than 1,500 projects for over 500 clients in France and Europe, including Ligier for the Mondial de l'automobile (472 m²) and Vinci for the Pollutec trade show (138 m²). Alphaexpo is a member of Leads and its joinery is certified to ISO 20121.
Décines-Charpieu
AUKARÉ is an agency that creates bespoke and modular exhibition stands, based in Décines-Charpieu, near Lyon. It handles the design, manufacturing and logistics of stands for trade shows in France and Europe. Its offer covers strategic consulting, technical study, manufacturing and end-to-end logistics for a stand project. Its work includes stands for Paprec at the Pollutec show, Corum at the Patrimonia show and April at the JDC Courtage show.
Limonest
axial design is an interior architecture agency based in Limonest, near Lyon. It designs bespoke stands, brand identities and professional space fit-outs (reception areas, offices, showrooms) for companies. The agency holds ISO 20121 CSR certification. In 2004, an eco-designed stand created for Grand Lyon won it an award at the Pollutec show. It has a presence in Lyon, Paris and Shanghai. Its work includes fit-outs for Hermès, Bobst and Solvay.
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier
Capsule Concept is an exhibition stand contractor based in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon. For 18 years, the agency has designed and built bespoke stands for trade shows. It has its own in-house joinery, allowing it to oversee stand design, manufacturing and installation. It also designs and fits out shops. Capsule Concept offers bespoke and modular stands, and works across France and Europe. Its published projects include stands for Pfleiderer at Eurobois and for Crédit Mutuel at Tech&Fest.
Genas
Laps Concept is a stand design and fit-out agency, based in Genas in the Rhône, a stone's throw from Eurexpo Lyon. Under the Laps Agencement brand, it has been fitting out offices, shops and showrooms for twenty years, with in-house expertise in cabinetmaking, joinery and metalwork carried out by qualified craftsmen in manufacturing and installation. Under the Laps Événements brand, it designs stands and also offers a modular stand brand, Easy Expo. It has notably built stands for Total at the EVS32 trade show in Lyon and for Hankook at Solutrans.
St Bonnet de Mure
Media Product is a stand-building agency based in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, near Lyon, active since 1988. It designs and manufactures bespoke stands for trade shows, as well as modular solutions and displays, and covers the whole chain: advice and analysis, design, technical work and production, assembly and dismantling, with an integrated production chain and a mostly French production network. The company also organises bespoke professional events: seminars, conventions, corporate evenings, incentive days, roadshows and team building. It states that it operates throughout France (Lyon, Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse, Cannes, Rennes, Montpellier) as well as internationally. Media Product is ISO 20121 certified.
Beauvallon
Pech'Up is an exhibition stand design agency based in the Lyon area. It offers two approaches: the modular stand, reusable from one trade show to the next, and the hybrid stand, which combines modular elements with bespoke pieces made in its in house joinery workshop. The agency also carries out space fit outs (showroom, corner, reception area). It works at Eurexpo Lyon and at trade shows throughout France; its portfolio page cites collaborations with Rehau (Artibat trade show), Würth Elektronik and B Mesure (Global Industrie trade show). Pech'Up was set up in 2020 by Lydie and François, and is part of the LEADS France network.
Saint Martin d'Heres
STANDPUB designs and manufactures exhibition stands from a production workshop in Grenoble (Saint Martin d'Hères), with a sales office in Lyon. A family business founded in 1983, it offers custom-made stands, modular stands and promotional stands, as well as interior fit-out (offices, shops, showrooms). The Grenoble workshop covers 4000m² and manufacturing is 100% French thanks to the in-house joinery. STANDPUB works from Paris to Lyon, from Grenoble to Marseille, on trade shows across France and Europe. The company is certified to the ISO 20121 standard. The choice between a custom-made, modular, pop-up or event stand depends on the project, each one being tailored to the client's image and objectives.
A stand builder designs, manufactures and installs an exhibitor's stand, from the first sketch through to dismantling. The trade covers quite different types of work. A bespoke stand starts from a blank page: architecture, choice of materials, workshop manufacturing, then assembly on site. A modular stand relies on reusable structures dressed in the exhibitor's colours, a quicker option to put up and one that travels from one show to the next. Between the two, hybrid stands combine a standard frame with elements built specially for the occasion. Set design, furniture, lighting, signage and ordering technical services from the venue are often added on top.
The Lyon region concentrates a dense trade show activity, around Eurexpo Lyon in Chassieu, the Centre de Congrès de Lyon and, further south, Alpexpo Grenoble. Regular events here include Global Industrie, SIRHA Lyon, Pollutec, Solutrans and Eurobois. Agoris lists 10 stand builders based in this area, which covers the Rhône, the Ain, the Isère and the Loire.
A bespoke stand is worth the investment when it carries a precise message, covers a large area, or needs to host machinery and demonstrations. Modular suits a company that exhibits at several shows on comparable surface areas and wants to reuse its investment from one edition to the next. The useful question to ask beforehand is how many shows are planned over the coming seasons: it guides the choice more reliably than how the design mock-ups look.
Three things are enough to start the conversation: the stand plan issued by the organiser, with its dimensions and open sides, the venue's technical regulations, and a clear idea of what needs to happen on the stand, from reception and confidential meetings to demonstrations and storage. Logos and the graphic charter come afterwards. Without the plan or the regulations, a proposal stays theoretical and is hard to compare.
It is worth checking who actually carries out the assembly: the company with its own teams, a local subcontractor, or the exhibitor itself for kit-delivered formulas. Also ask who places the orders with the venue, for electricity, rigging, cleaning or build-up passes, and who stays reachable during the installation period. This point, more than the mock-up, is what matters on the eve of opening.
Proximity helps for visiting the workshop, approving a prototype or reacting quickly during assembly, and a company based near a venue knows its regulations and access constraints. This is not an obligation, though: stand builders from the region also travel to other trade shows in France and Europe, and a distant provider can rely on local assembly teams. The decisive criterion remains the clarity of the commitment made on assembly.