& - PREPARING FOR CONTINGENCIES HELPED COMPANIES GROW DURING THE PANDEMIC

extensive experience building in Thailand, so it all came together pretty seamlessly.” The company had wanted to expand its presence in the growing markets of Southeast Asia, and in mid-2019, its board gave the green Like the rest of the world, the company made use of online meeting light to a plan to build a large manufacturing plant in the province of tools and other options for regular communic. [...] The pandemic disrupted the manufac- was able to quickly step up its production of the glass vials needed to turing supply chain, but the company’s practice of stockpiling raw hold COVID-19 vaccines and get them to the vaccine makers to help material meant it could continue to fulfill orders, sometimes when meet the extraordinary demand. [...] “We appreciate the efforts of our organizers, volunteers, vendors, The planning of these companies and many others will help and partners to work with us and respond to a fast-changing end the pandemic and prepare them for whatever the next situation in a way that allows us to continue to serve our members crisis will be. [...] o r g / c e r a m i c a n d g l a s s m a n u f a c t u r i n g 9 THE ROCKY ROAD BACK TO ‘LIVE’: IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC FROM A TRADE SHOW PERSPECTIVE By Emma Stokes Exhibition organizer Smarter Shows shares how they uring the early winter months of 2020, we here in the small navigated the pandemic to continue bringing industry Dcity of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom professional. [...] Many providers exist- value that we create via Ceramics Expo, along with our other events, ed long before the pandemic, but none could have foreseen or been and investigating ways in which we could replicate that value for truly prepared for the uplift in demand that the pandemic would throw our participants in the absence of being able to run the show in the their way from event organizers the wo.