Changes for Vietnamese Show
-- Tradeshow Week, 6/2/2008
It's always time for change in the international exhibition industry, and now is no different. The latest global news includes new shows and changes to existing shows in India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Poland, France and Vietnam.
Messe Muenchen Intl. and the Indian Printed Circuit Assn. will launch electronicIndia 2008 Sept. 2-5 at the Bangalore (India) Intl. Exhibition Center. The show, which organizers expect to be staged annually, will present components, systems and applications for electronics and electronics manufacturers. Since 2000, MMI has organized Componex/electronicIndia in New Delhi in partnership with publisher Electronics Today. The Bangalore event is expected to attract more than 1,000 exhibitors from the international electronics industry.
After holding Top Resa in Deauville, France, for 29 years, Reed Expositions France is moving the tourism and travel tradeshow to Paris's Porte de Versailles and changing its name. The renamed Paris Intl. Travel Market will be held Sept. 16-19.
The first Fastener Fair Budapest will debut Sept. 22-23 at Budapest, Hungary's Syma Event Center. The show will be aimed at fastener and fixing specialists from Eastern Europe. U.K.-based organizer Fastener Fair, which also produces shows in Coventry, England, and Stuttgart, Germany, publishes Fastener & Fixing Magazine.
Messe Istanbul's first BranDeal '08 licensing show will be collocated with Toyzeria '08 Nov. 6-9 at the Istanbul Expo Center. The shows are expected to attract 30,000 exhibitors.
The Poznan (Poland) Intl. Fair will launch Glass & Stone 2008 Nov. 15-18 for the stone and glass sectors, featuring products and technologies used in glass and stone processing.
Messe Frankfurt's Intl. Furniture Fair Tokyo will be renamed and relaunched as the semiannual IFFT/Interiorlifestyle Living. The former Intl. Furniture Fair Tokyo will be combined with Interior Lifestyle (which comprises Ambiente Japan and Heimtextil Japan) for design-oriented interior products, previously held each June. The combined event will be Nov. 19-22 at the Tokyo Intl. Exhibition Center (known as Tokyo Big Sight). Messe Frankfurt and the Intl. Development Assn. of the Furniture Industry of Japan will co-produce the new show that will be held each June.
The biennial TATEF 2008 – the 12th Intl. Metalworking Technologies Exhibition, held at the CNR Expo Center in Istanbul, Turkey, has new dates: Nov. 25-30. Organizer ITF – Istanbul Trade Fairs, a subsidiary of CNR and Gima, Hamburg, had originally planned the show for Oct. 14-19.
Channels Exhibitions' Middle East Exclusive tradeshow will move from its usual time slot following the Middle East Duty Free Assn. conference in November to March 10-12. The tradeshow for the luxury goods and premium gifts business will continue to be held at The Dubai Intl. Convention and Exhibition Centre in the United Arab Emirates. This year's Middle East Duty Free Assn. conference will take place as planned Nov. 25-26 in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Expomedia Events will move the recently acquired Intl. Spa Show – London from Islington's Business Design Centre to Olympia Natl. Hall March 20-22. Expomedia acquired the consumer event for the spa industry and spa tourism sector from Spa Shows last year.
H&K Messe of Stuttgart, Germany, and Poland's Poznan Intl. Fair will launch Tekspro, with a focus on textile marketing, April 21-24 at the Poznan Intl. Fair in Poznan, Poland. Tekspro will collocate with the Poligrafia tradeshow for printing machines, materials and services, and Euro-Reklama Outdoor Expo, for advertising media and services.
APLF, a joint venture between CMP Asia and SIC Paris, will launch Footwear, Materials, Manufacturing & Technology May 8-10 at a New Delhi venue still to be determined. A number of seminars will augment the tradeshow, which will be managed by CMP India. Since 1984, APLF has organized the leather industry-related tradeshow APLF – Materials, Manufacturing and Technology annually in Hong Kong, as well as the semiannual fashion accessories event Fashion Access in Hong Kong and the All China Leather Exhibition in Shanghai.
IDICE will move the Forum International de Plasturgie – Intl. Plastics Industry Forum, held since 1987 at Valexpo in Oyonnax, France's “Plastics Valley,” to the Lyon-Eurexpo in Lyon, France, June 16-19, 2009. In 2006, the show attracted about 10,000 visitors to a showfloor that was approximately 10,000 square meters (107,600 square feet) in size.
