Baker Hughes New Client for CBE; CBE Exhibits & Events Begins Work With Baker Hughes.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1996--CBE Exhibits and Events, one of Houston's top three exhibit firms, recently signed Baker Hughes Incorporated as a new client. CBE, a 12-year-old privately-owned company, has begun work on a trade show booth for Baker Hughes for MinExpo `96, a mining show running September 9th through 12th at Las Vegas's Convention Center.

"We're very excited about providing trade show expertise and support to Baker Hughes, one of the industry's foremost oil services companies," said Jeff Marmack, founder and president of CBE Exhibits and Events. "Houston is an international center for the oil business since it has one of the largest concentrations of energy company headquarters in the world. As a result, CBE has been partnering with oil industry clients since our inception 12 years ago. We're able to handle all aspects of a company's trade show participation, whether it's taking place in the U.S. or overseas. And our booths range from large custom-designed and custom-built structures to cost-efficient designs reusing a customer's existing booth materials."

CBE is designing and producing a large island exhibit for Baker Hughes' presence at MinExpo `96 in Las Vegas. The booth will showcase the company's product lines from Baker Hughes Mining Tools, EIMCO Process Equipment Company, Centrilift and Baker Performance Chemicals.

Baker Hughes Incorporated is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Through its companies, Baker Hughes provides products and services for the drilling, completion and production of oil and gas wells. Its process equipment operations manufacture and market specialty equipment for a variety of process applications. Baker Hughes' companies and process operations encompass Hughes Christensen Company (of which Baker Hughes Mining Tools is a division), Baker Oil Tools, Baker Hughes INTEQ, Baker Hughes Process Equipment Company (of which EIMCO is a division), Baker Performance Chemicals, Incorporated, and Centrilift.

CBE's other clients include: BMC Software, California Microwave, Chantal Cookware, Compaq Computer, Gamma Biologicals, GET Enterprises, Houston Cellular, Oil States Industries, Inc., Rowan Companies, Architect David A. Suplee and Transok. CBE's philosophy is to provide quality at a fair price with exceptional service. Because of its unique range of services and the 75 combined years of experience of its 21-member staff, CBE's revenues have grown 30% a year since 1991.

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