Emerging from the pile of pretzels and press releases accumulated at the Autumn trade show season is news that the PGA is teaming up with buying group TGi to create what they hope will become “Europe’s largest trade show and education event”, starting in October 2010.

This is an intriguing prospect and it raises a couple of questions. Will this expansion in Harrogate accelerate the year-on-year shrinkage taking place in Munich? And perhaps trickiest of all, where will the Foremost group fit in to this shifting landscape?