Spanish Fashion Shows Canceled

Worldwide news about exhibitions includes date changes, show launches, moves and cancellations in countries from Europe to South America to Asia.

Citing worse-than-expected exhibitor participation, Spanish exhibition organizer IFEMA canceled its Feb. 26-28 Textilmoda fashion fair and May 22-24 Plural Fashion show at Parque Ferial Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. Around 80 exhibitors took part in previous Textilmoda shows, 45 percent of them from abroad. Launched in 2001, Textilmoda last ran Sept. 26-28. IFEMA launched Plural Fashion for Asian producers of textiles, footwear, leather goods and accessories in May 2007, when it attracted about 70 exhibitors. A second edition in October 2007 drew about 90 companies.

For this year's CPM - Collection Premiere Moscow fashion show, organizer Igedo will add the CPM Store Concept, meant to offer systems suppliers a marketplace of their own within the show. According to Igedo Managing Director Frank Hartmann, the show has had the segment store concept prepared for some time, and this year the required space was available. The show is scheduled Feb. 26-29 at Moscow's Krasnaya Presnaja Expocentr.

The Children's Fashion Europe association and organizers of Spanish children's wear fair Fiera Internazionale di Moda Infantile Fimi in Valencia, Spain, together will launch a children's fashion and outfitting fair in the Middle East. Oh! Children's Fashion Europe will debut March 4-6 at the World Trade Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Organizers expect 25 exhibitors from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Messe Muenchen's electronica & Productronica China and Laser, World of Photonics China will take place under the umbrella of the Shanghai IT & Electronics Fair for the first time March 18-20. SIEF will bring together four tradeshows at the Shanghai Intl. Expo Center, including Shanghai YingZhan Business Service's Intl. Electronic Circuits Exhibition and SEMI's Semicon China. The four events will occupy 11 halls, each covering 10,000 square meters (107,600 square feet). They ran simultaneously in 2007 in Shanghai, and drew 2,077 exhibitors and 86,000 visitors, but not under the SIEF umbrella.

Responding to what it said the market wanted, Fira de Barcelona will produce its Expohogar Autumn home and accessories show July 1-4 instead of in September. Expohogar will continue to be semiannual, and the spring show is scheduled Feb. 1-4. Both shows will take place in Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via exhibition center in Barcelona, Spain.

IFEMA's summer edition of the Salon Internacional de Moda fashion exhibition in Madrid, Spain, will begin a day earlier than scheduled. SIMM's new dates are July 17-19. The spring edition will take place as previously planned, Feb. 15-17 at Feria de Madrid.

Kater Marketing of Duesseldorf has changed the dates of its tobacco tradeshow Tabinfo Latin America/Caribbean to Oct. 14-16 at Sao Paulo, Brazil's Transamerica Expo Centre. The show previously was scheduled Nov. 11-13.

Paris-based organizers Sodes' Pret-a-Porter, the Who's Next Organisation's Who's Next and WSN Development's Premiere Classe autumn fashion shows will take place two months earlier than planned, July 5-7, 2009. The new dates are two days after the July 1-3 Bread & Butter in Barcelona and three weeks before the July 26-28 CPD in Duesseldorf. Most exhibitors expressed a preference for the earlier dates in a survey, the organizers said.

Organizers of two triennial shows for the bakery industry are planning to go biennial and coordinate their schedules. The German Bakers' Confederation and F&M Fiere & Mostre have agreed to cooperate on the rotation and timing of their respective shows, Iba - World Market for Baking and A. B. Tech Arte Bianca. In the future, they will take place in October of alternate years, with the next Iba scheduled Oct. 3-9, 2009, at Messe Duesseldorf (Germany) and A. B. Tech in 2010 in Milan, Italy. The most recent Iba was held in Munich, Germany, in 2006, and the most recent A. B. Tech Arte Bianca was held last May in Milan.

The southern port city of Yeosu, Korea, beat out Tangiers, Morocco, and Wroclaw, Poland, in a bid to host the Intl. Exposition May 12-Aug. 12, 2012. Yeosu's proposed theme is the Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities. The Paris-based Intl. Exhibitions Bureau announced the winner in November after a vote at its 142nd General Assembly, in which 140 member countries participated. Yeosu lost to Shanghai in the bidding for the world exhibition in 2010.