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The Windsor Symphony Orchestra - Where Business is Conducted

Did you know that between 2001 and 2008 spending on performing arts increased by 49%?*

39% of households in Canadian cities with populations greater than 100,000 attended a live performing arts event. A recent study has shown that those patrons have have higher than average household expenditure in the following areas:

• Hotels and other travel accommodations (nearly triple) and inter-city transportation
  (more than double)
• Financial services (over twice as much) and contributions to retirement savings and
  pension funds (nearly twice as much)
• Garden supplies (more than double)
• Restaurants (85% higher average spending on restaurant food and more than double the
  average spending on restaurant alcohol)
• Bicycles (more than double)
• Clothing (88% higher)
• Furniture (86% higher)
• Computer equipment and supplies (81% higher)
• Pet expenses (72% higher)
• Household appliances (66%)
• Eye-care goods and services (65% higher)
• Dental services (57% higher)
• Communications equipment, such as telephones (53% higher)
• Cellular phone services (46% higher)
• Vehicle purchases (40% higher)
• Internet services (33% higher)

The Windsor Symphony Orchestra offers your business the opportunity to deliver information about your goods and services directly to our patrons.

This can be done in a number of ways, including traditional advertising, material insertion, concert/event sponsorship and target special offers.

To learn more about how the WSO helps you conduct business, please contact Shelley Sharpe, Communications Manager, by email or by phone at 519-973-1238 ex. 22.

*All statistics taken from Patterns in Performing Arts Spending in Canada in 2008, a study by Hill Strategies funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Arts Council