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Bob Evans Farm Festival

The Bob Evans Farm Festival has been a great customer of ours for several years. As the Festival has grown, the type of tents they have used have become much larger and much more sophisticated. When Ray McKinnis, manager of Bob Evans Farms, approached us to discuss this year's festival, we thought they might want to change their order a bit; But, we were suprised when they said they wanted to re-design the site layout and almost complete change how the Farm Festival would operate.

Change is to be expected in the rental industry, but a change this large called for a complete re-thinking of the event. Brian Ritchey, our President, worked with Ray to re-configure the grounds and tenting to substitute clear span structures for the numerous large pole tents that the Farm had been using. From those planning meetings came the new Bob Evans Farm Festival. 14 uniquely colored structures would be set up in a horse shoe shape for vendors to operate out of. In addition to each tent being a different color, all of the gable triangles would be clear, to let more natural light in. Each of those structures would be lighted by our 400 watt high bay tent lights. There would still be some smaller frame tents used for general purposes, but the new Festival design created a significant manufacturing challenge.

As soon as the plan was finalized, our manufacturing team went to work on creating 64 new roof panels of varying color stripes, 28 new clear gable triangles, and several new lights were assembled to complete the order. All of this production was to be done while projects for other manufacturing customers were being worked on. The results: one of the most technologically advanced, beautiful set up's that we've done in recent years was created.

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