The show is organised by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, founded in 1784 to promote the regeneration of rural Scotland. Occupying a three hundred acre site adjacent to Edinburgh Airport on the western fringe of Scotland's Capital City, the event is an annual 'must' for the major herds, flocks and studs across the UK as well as being firmly in the calendar of a huge variety of businesses which take trade stands to promote and sell their products.