Optrafair plans on course

Optrafair organisers donned hard hats to view building work on Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre new hall 20. The new hall will accommodate an expanded show at 12,500m2 (1997: 11,780m2) in a new grid system plan, with 165 exhibitors (1997: 188 exhibitors) from April 17-19 next year. Pictured (l to r) are: Rory Forsyth (secretary, Federation of Manufacturing Opticians), Steve Greenhalgh (director of Optrafair's PR consultant, the Focus Group), Neil Appleton (vice-chairman, Ophthalmic Exhibitors' Association), John Hockney (chairman, OEA), and Kingsley Sleep (chairman, FMO).