Phil Anderson: Event Hire owner on their partnership with A&P to operate a slimmed down event

A Christchurch company has stepped in to save this year's Canterbury A&P show. 

Event Hire's reached an agreement with the A&P association to operate a slimmed down version of the annual November event. 

The partnership follows the A&P board calling it off due to its financial situation. 

To be called the Christchurch Show, it will remain at the show grounds. 

Event Hire owner Phil Anderson told Mike Hosking that discussions had been underway since the show was canned. 

He says interest was sparked after they were asked by suppliers and vendors whether they could offer support. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good news, good news, good news. The Cantery amp folks
have reached an agreement with event Hire to go ahead
with the A and G the New Zealand Egg Show
in November. It's a new deal, new name. It's going
to be called the christ Show. And Phil Anderson is
the owner of event High and is with there's film
morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, Mike. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Not at all well done? Do you feel good about
it all?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh? Absolutely, Yeah, it's great to get it out there
in the public. And yeah, it's amazing to hear some
of the feedback. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
And when you heard it fall over, did you think,
hang on, here's a bit of me I can get
into this.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, it was actually coincidental. There's multiple phone calls the
day after from supplies and some vendors saying, hey, is
there anything you could do on this day? We would
love it if you could, and it sort of sparks
some interest in all of us.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I think, okay, so how's it going to work when
you say slim down? How slim down?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Slim down? In the aspect that they are sort of
separate events. So Kappa are doing some animal and the
City familyard aspect, and we're doing the show aspect, so
you know, that's some of the food and markets still
but with the flavor of the AMP show. So the
full scale shows is pretty big. We're just skimming that
down to more manageable size to make it work.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Is it workable and long term in the model? Is
this the way the future? Do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I definitely think there's probably some changes for the show
moving forward, and that's possibly about the way it's ran.
But I think absolutely that I think they're going to
come out the other side of this super strong. I
think this is just a really good initiative to work
for this year and it's looking at how that model
needs to change in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It did. I never got to the bottom of it.
The model seemed problematic. That seemed to work all year
for three days worth of revenue, and that never struck
me as anything particularly bright. Was that the problem as
part of it?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, and definitely it's a very expensive process running
a show like this. Yeah, actually diving deep in the
back end of it, starting to get an understanding of that. Yeah, Look,
it's been difficult for them, and potentially on the other
side of that, hopefully we can be involved in the
running of the show in the future and we can
help you work to some of those costs in the

(02:09):
future and make it possible.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, I wish you all the very best. Well, I
hope it goes fantastically well November. Come on and Phil Anderson,
who's the event higher owner. So the Christ Your Champ,
the fabulous, the famous Christ Your Champ Show has been saved.

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