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TRADE SHOWS
INDEX FAIRS MUMBAI, INDIA | 9–12 OCTOBER
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elebrating 26 years, this four-day event saw about 25,000 trade buyers and specifiers visit Mumbai from across the architecture, interior design and building sectors. Over 300 booths were seen sprawled across 300,000 square feet of the MMRDA Exhibition Center, fitted out with a range of interior products with a focus on spaces for furniture, decorative lighting and artifacts, kitchen, office, wall and floor products and architectural hardware. Being design-driven, Index Fairs allocated key spaces to design including the Index
Design Boulevard; with lighting installations, the Kudos Gallery; exhibiting standout contributions to the hospitality industry, and the Art Enclave and Sculpture Zone; two brand new editions to Index Fairs this year. The fair’s visitor profile was boosted by the official partnership with the Hospitality Procurement Managers Forum (HPMF) and the Institute of Indian Interior Designers; the architect fraternity that is responsible for interior fit-outs of the sprawling project spaces of the country. In addition, strategic partnerships with India’s leading airlines and hotels took the fair to a new level of
professionalism and success. Focused initiatives, such as the B2B matchmaking exercise attracted over 2,700 trade and business visitors from across India. Index Fairs is well-known as a good entry point into the Indian markets and has, over its 26 years of operation, helped launch leading brands from over 20 countries including Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, France, Malaysia, Singapore and China into the Indian marketplace.
The presence of top exhibitors attracted some of the biggest buyers in the world including retail giants Hobby Lobby, TJX, Best Buy, Family Dollar, Ross Stores (USA) and ALDI, to name but a few. Xue Song, General Manager of Shenzhen D’SILY, who has attended the fair for 22 consecutive years remarked that, “After 15 years of development, Jinhan Fair has reached an ideal state in terms of the quality of exhibitors and the diversity of product
supply chain and has truly become a onestop platform for clients in the global home and gifts industry from different regions and with different needs. Buyers used to come for the exhibitors, but now they are here for the fair itself.”
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JINHAN FAIR FOR HOME & GIFTS GUANGZHOU, CHINA | 21–27 OCTOBER
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ver seven days in October, the 30th Jinhan Fair for Home & Gifts was held in Guangzhou, China at the Poly World Trade Center Expo. The fair covered an exhibition area of 83,000 square metres and attracted over 50,000 professional buyers from 154 countries and regions around the world, and nearly 800 exhibitors, presenting tens of thousands of new home furnishing and gift products and trends.
Spring 2014
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