Global Update: Bread & butter Returns

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 6/4/2007

In international news, the pace of new show launches, moves, date changes and cancellations continues around the world:

• BBB Kraftwerk, which debuted Jan. 26–27 at Berlin Mitte, will not take place again. Instead, fashion show management firm Bread & butter will focus on Bread & butter Barcelona July 4–16 at Fira Barcelona. Show managers said exhibitors preferred to focus on one strong international show, rather than divide their resources between two events.
• Object Rotterdam will launch an exhibition of the same name for three-dimensional works of art June 6–10 in Rotterdam's Las Palmas Hall II. Object Rotterdam will feature exhibitors from Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands who create contemporary design, glasswork, ceramics, silverware and jewelry.
• Business Media China will launch China Uranium, billed as China's first international conference and exhibition for the nuclear industry, Oct. 9–10 at the Crowne Plaza Park View in Wuzhou, Beijing. Participants will include mining and exploration companies, equipment suppliers, geologists, banks and consultants. A China Nuclear Tour will follow the conference, Oct. 11–12, offering participants tours of a Chinese uranium mine or nuclear power plant.
• Two shows for the leisure and amusement park industries are joining forces. Messe Stuttgart and Fiera di Genova respectively organize Germany's established Interschau and the newer Italian Technofolies. The combined trade fair will take place annually, alternating between Stuttgart and Genoa, with the first joint show debuting Oct. 25–27 in Genoa, followed by Stuttgart Oct. 29–31, 2008. Interschau previously took place in January.
• ITC Group has postponed its MiningWorld West China 2007, scheduled for November at the Xinjiang Intl. Exhibition Center. The firm is seeking to confirm new dates for the show.
• Expo Centre Sharjah will launch HealthCare Arabia Nov. 20–24 at the Expo Centre Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The organizer described it as the Middle East's first international consumer health care exhibition, displaying products and services from around the world for both local and national buyers.
• Reed Exhibitions is slightly changing the dates of its Salon Nautique de Paris. The annual boat show will be at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles Dec. 1–9, opening one day later and closing one day earlier than originally planned. Nov. 30 is now a press day.
• Hong Kong tradeshow organizer Kenfair Intl. will launch Asian Jewellery Expo Jan. 6–9 at Earls Court, London. The event is designed for suppliers of Asian-made jewelry, gemstones, jade, pearl and handicrafts.
• The United Arab Emirates' Expo Centre Sharjah and Italy's Riva del Garda FiereCongressi will jointly organize a show billed as the Middle East's first international tradeshow for the footwear and leather accessories industry. Expo Riva Middle East, an offshoot of the Intl. Shoe Fair Expo Riva Schuh in Riva del Garda, will debut Feb. 17–19 in the Emirate of Sharjah. The groups are planning an Indian edition of the fair in 2010.
• Italy's BolognaFiere will launch Saiespring, an exhibition for door and window frames, framing technologies and interior finishing, March 12–15. It will be a spin-off of the Saie — Intl. Building Exhibition, to be held Oct. 24–28.
• Rimini Fiera will launch Bowling Event Rimini, a bowling exhibition, March 13–16. It will be held simultaneously with the ENADA Spring Intl. Amusement & Gaming Machine Show. The annual BER exhibition will attempt to attract bowling alley, recreation center and shopping center owners and managers from across Europe.
• Organizers Messezentrum Salzburg and H&K Messe Karlsruhe will debut Protex, a trade fair for industrial safety and work apparel, April 8–10, at the Salzburg Exhibition Centre in Austria. The show will focus on personal safety on the job, corporate fashions and health and safety at work.
• Internationale Messen CMW and Firma Peter Lindpointner will launch the Intl. Music Fair Salzburg, an exhibition platform for music, at the Salzburg Exhibition Centre April 24–27. Products on display will range from novelties to string instruments to state-of-the-art sound engineering and lighting equipment.
• China Intl. Exhibitions canceled the planned 2008 WoodMac China, scheduled June 24–27 in Shanghai. The now-annual event will become a biennial one, next scheduled Feb. 17–20, 2009. During the same dates, CIE will organize two associated exhibitions, FurniTek China and WoodBuild China. The firm will produce WoodMac China in conjunction with Deutsche Messe.
• China Natl. Marine Tool is moving its China Intl. Machinery and Equipment Show & China Machine Tool & Tools Commodities Fair in Beijing from its originally scheduled June 2008 time slot to Oct. 9–13, 2008. It will move back to its June dates in 2010 when it will be renamed CIMES — China Intl. Machine Tool & Tools Exhibition.
• Paris-based Reed Midem will launch Amazia, an exhibition and conference focusing on the creation and distribution of international entertainment content across all delivery platforms. The event will debut in November 2008 in Hong Kong.