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Live Index

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Segment

Rigging and staging

Companies supplying the structures, trusses, hoists, decks and temporary infrastructure that physically hold a live production up.

Status
Sub-index not released
Method version
1.0
Reviewed
2026-08-22

This page publishes the segment's eligibility rule and boundary. No sub-index level, constituent list or weight is reported, because none has been measured.

Why this segment exists

Rigging and staging is the least visible and most safety-regulated part of the production stack. It is also the part with the clearest link to festival and stadium activity: temporary structures are built for outdoor events at a scale that indoor rooms do not require, so the segment reads on festival supply rather than on club-level activity.

Revenue is contract-based and concentrated in a short outdoor season across much of the northern hemisphere, which gives the segment a seasonality that other segments do not share and which the index construction must not smooth away.

Eligibility

A company is assigned here when all hold

  • The company manufactures or supplies structural staging, truss, rigging hardware, hoists or temporary event infrastructure.
  • Event work is separable from general construction, industrial lifting or permanent-structure business.

Outside the boundary

  • General construction and industrial crane hire are excluded.
  • Permanent architectural steel is excluded.

Qualifying activities

  • Truss and rigging hardware manufacture
  • Temporary stage and roof systems for festivals
  • Event structural engineering and crew services

Constituents

None. A company is listed here only once its live-revenue exposure has been measured from a primary document and the index has been released. Candidate records held to prove the record schema are withheld from publication and are not named on this page.

Evidence elsewhere on Live Index

Construction rule for the whole index