For exhibitors & sponsors · 15 minutes from the Kentucky Expo Center

Host Clients During Equip Exposition

Equip Exposition is one of the largest trade shows in the country — the entire outdoor power equipment and landscape industry takes over the Kentucky Exposition Center and its giant outdoor demo yard every October. When the demos wind down, bring your dealers and best accounts somewhere they'll remember. Reserve our private upstairs lounge, fifteen minutes across the river, for cigars and real conversation.

The private upstairs VIP cigar lounge at The Office Cigar Lounge in New Albany, IN

Kentucky Expo Center · October

Equip Exposition (formerly GIE+EXPO)

  • When Each October — October 20–23, 2026 (dates shift year to year)
  • Show Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY
  • Our room The Office Cigar Lounge — 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150 · 15 minutes from the KEC

Equip Exposition draws landscapers, dealers, and outdoor power equipment manufacturers from around the world, filling the indoor halls and a sprawling outdoor demo yard. It's three-plus days of equipment, demos, and the biggest concentration of dealers and buyers your industry sees all year — which makes the after-hours hours just as valuable as the floor.

The After-Show Move for Equip Exhibitors

You spent the budget on the booth, the demo machines, the freight, and the travel. The leads come off the floor — but the relationships get built after hours, when nobody's racing to the next demo. A hotel bar is loud and full of your competitors. A steakhouse is a reservation and a clock. We're a different kind of room: a premium cigar lounge fifteen minutes across the river in New Albany, Indiana, with a door you can close behind your group.

Whether you're a manufacturer thanking a dealer network, a distributor closing a big landscaper account, or a sales crew that's been walking the demo yard for days, the upstairs lounge turns a booth handshake into a two-hour conversation — the kind that's still paying off long after the show tears down.

Your Own Private Floor

Book the upstairs and the entire second floor is yours for the night — fully private, doors closed, no walk-in traffic. That includes:

We keep the focus on cigars and good company. Plenty of groups bring their own food to enjoy alongside their cigars — just ask us how it works.

Plan your Equip Expo night

Lock in Your Date Before the Show Fills the City

Equip Expo week is one of the busiest weeks of the year in Louisville, and our private room books up fast. Pick your night now and we'll have it ready — from group size to a flight of cigars matched to your crowd.

Getting here

Fifteen Minutes From the Kentucky Expo Center

An easy ride for the whole group — straight up I-264 and over the Sherman Minton Bridge, or I-265 to State Street (Exit 1), turn right and head up the hill. 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150. Free parking out front. Hours & map →