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Bicycle Trade Show Returns to Anaheim

The Anaheim Convention Center has signed San Juan Capistrano-based Interbike International Bicycle Expo to return to the convention center after a 14-year hiatus.

Interbike, part of Nielsen Co., is the largest U.S. bicycle trading show that brings about 1,000 brands and about 20,000 attendees from around the world for a five-day show to buy and sell bicycles.

Due to of the many new cycling products and technologies that are launched each year at Interbike, the show is an important media event for the bicycle industry.

The show is slated to start August 2011 with two days at Outdoor Demo, tentatively set for Irvine Regional Park.

Anaheim beat out Salt Lake City, Utah which was also in the running to host the event.

In early April Interbike organizers planned to move the show to early August to coincide with earlier buying cycles, according to Bicycle Retailer & Industry News.

Interbike last held its trade show in Anaheim in 1997 before moving to Las Vegas 14 years ago after outgrowing Anaheim.

It’s the latest win for the convention center which is still attempting to learn the fate of another large fan fest.

The Anaheim Convention Center is still waiting to hear from officials with Comic-Con International about potentially moving the annual convention out of San Diego.

This year’s sold-out convention, which ended July 25, drew about 126,000 visitors daily to the San Diego Convention Center, and with vendors and global media representatives factored in, the total visitor count was more than 140,000.

All those visitors add up to what convention center officials now estimate to be a $163 million economic impact on San Diego County.

Comic-Con has been held in San Diego since its 1970 inception, and the 2010 event marked its 20th year at the San Diego Convention Center. The local venue is now in competition with centers in Anaheim and Los Angeles to host the gathering in 2013 to at least 2015.

Comic-Con organizers had said in June that they were looking to announce their choice before the start of this year’s event.

San Diego-based Comic Con International LLC have yet to make a decision.

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