Sweets Show Debuts in Turkey

The latest international exhibition news includes new shows and changes to existing shows from South Africa to India and from the United Arab Emirates to Japan.

ZAO Expocentr in Moscow postponed this year's Showtex, an exhibition for show technology. Scheduled April 15-17, it will be held April 14-16, 2009. Expocentr is negotiating with Messe Frankfurt (Germany) to run a Russian edition of Music Messe, Prolight + Sound in Moscow in April 2009.

Food Forum India, launched by Images Group, Delhi, will be held for the first time May 6-7 in Mumbai's Renaissance Hotel. The exhibition and conference is supported by the largest food companies and associations in India and several international concerns. Officials said they expect 2,500 conference attendees and 150 exhibitors.

The first Sweet Eurasia will be held June 12-15 at the Tuyap Exhibition Center in Istanbul, Turkey, and will a focus on sweets, chocolate, biscuits and confectionery. Participants at the event, organized by Ipekyolu Intl. Exhibitions, will include sweet products manufacturers, distributors, importers, exporters, retailers, hypermarkets and chain stores. Sweet Eurasia will be used by both domestic and foreign manufacturers and agents as a tool for introducing their brands to the Eurasian market. Ipekyolu Intl. also will launch Real Estate Eurasia, an annual real estate and investment exhibition also taking place June 12-15 at the Tuyap facility, to showcase real estate projects and investment opportunities in the Eurasian region.

Messe Frankfurt canceled its Ambiente Russia 2008 fair for consumer goods, scheduled Sept. 9-11 in the Crocus Expo Trade and Exhibition Center in Moscow.

A Chinese edition of the Intersec security show will debut Sept. 23-25. Messe Frankfurt (HK) and Shenzhen CPSE Exhibition will launch Intersec China, the China Urban Security Expo at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Centre featuring equipment, technology and services related to fire, security, safety and health, police, and home and building automation. The planned exhibition space is 30,000 gross square meters (323,000 square feet), with 15,000 visitors and 350 exhibitors expected. Messe Frankfurt also organizes Intersec Thailand in Bangkok and Intersec Middle East in Dubai, U.A.E.

Pennwell and e.x. Press, a Japanese publisher of business and technology magazines, will launch LED Japan Strategies in Light Oct. 16-17 at the Tepia Exhibition Hall in Tokyo, focusing on the worldwide market for high-brightness LEDs, including the systems that use the LEDs as well as the LEDs themselves. The U.S. Strategies in Light attracted more than 1,000 attendees to the Santa Clara (Calif.) Convention Center this year. Organizers for LED Japan Strategies in Light, which will be held annually in addition to the original U.S. event, said they hoped it would bring a new focus to the LED market in Japan, where there are many LED manufacturers, users and suppliers of equipment and materials.

Messe Frankfurt rescheduled Interior Lifestyle China in Shanghai, a tradeshow for household products and accessories, from Oct. 16-19 to Nov. 19-22 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre.

Messe Frankfurt Mexico's Exintex tradeshow for home and clothing textiles, textile machines and fashion, previously held in Puebla, Mexico, will take place at Mexico City's World Trade Center Oct. 23-25.

The ITE Group will debut Central China Food Expo 2008 for the food and drink, food processing and packaging machinery industries Nov. 18-20 at the Zhengzhou Intl. Conference & Exhibition Center in Zhengzhou, China. Zhengzhou is the capital of Henan Province, the most populous province in China, with a food industry that reached annual sales revenues of more than $27 billion in 2006. Officials said the show will aim to enable international companies to penetrate the Chinese food industry.

Fabtec India, a sheet metal fabrication, welding, coating and paint technology exhibition planned to debut this July in Coimbatore, India, was rescheduled for Jan. 21-25. Organizer P.E. Schall of Frickenhausen, Germany, said it changed the dates to give exhibitors more time to prepare for the event.

A.N.C.I.'s Micam Shoevent footwear exhibition in Milan will be two weeks later next year. The next spring issue of the show will take place March 4-7. Manufacturers also will present their latest collections Sept. 16-19, 2009, instead of Sept. 17-20, 2009. This year's earlier date, a first for the exhibition, caused a drop in industry attendance. Instead of the previous nearly 43,000 visitors, about 39,000 attended the Feb. 26-29 event.

The Tarsus Group, organizer of the Labelexpo and Label Summit events, will launch the Global Digital Label Summit March 23-24 in Barcelona, Spain, for the printing and label industry. According to Tarsus, the event was launched because of requests that the company offer a forum where the present and future of the digital processes could be discussed. The event will feature a tabletop exhibition and a conference.

South Africa will host a local version of the German Automechanika next year at the Johannesburg Expo Centre – its 13th location worldwide, March 18-21, 2009. The event will showcase the local and international components industry, the automotive aftermarket, workshops, car wash technology and the industries surrounding gas stations. Dogan Trading, a joint venture between the Johannesburg Expo Centre and South African Show Services, was granted the right to host the show by event owner Messe Frankfurt.