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19. January 2012
Heimtextil 2012 with more exhibitors and around 70,000 visitors
Heimtextil 2012 closed its doors last Saturday after achieving an excellent set of results. With 2,634 exhibitors from 61 countries, the number of manufacturers of home and contract textiles taking part was up 2.4 percent on the year before and the atmosphere at the fair correspondingly good. “The exhibitors were delighted with the number of decision makers, the quality of the contacts, the orders placed and the number of new business contacts at Heimtextil 2012”, said Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt, summarising the opinion of exhibitors as reflected by the end-of-fair poll. German exhibitors were particularly pleased with their results – no less than 84 percent said their participation had been successful to very successful, a significant increase on the previous year (77 percent).
Even higher was the level of satisfaction on the visitor side where 92 percent said they were satisfied to very satisfied with the range of products on show and the course of business at the fair. Against this background of orders, product launches and new contacts, the sector nevertheless noted that many delegations from the distributive trades, the handicrafts trade, design and industry were no longer as big as in the past. This reduced the number of visitors by a good five percent to around 70,000 (2011: 73,071, audited by the Society for the Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics (FKM)). “The decline is primarily due to a fall in numbers from those European nations that have been particularly hard hit by the debt crisis, especially Italy, Spain, Greece, France and The Netherlands”, explained Detlef Braun. In contrast to this, there was an increase in the number of visitors from the Russian Federation, the Middle East, Turkey and the Far East. The biggest visitor countries after Germany were Italy, Turkey, China, Great Britain, the USA, France, Spain, the Russian Federation, The Netherlands and Poland. Altogether, the proportion of visitors from outside Germany amounted to 64.2 percent (2011: 65.4 percent).
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The next Heimtextil, International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles, will be held in Frankfurt am Main from 9 to 12 January 2013./Photo Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH/ Pietro Sutera |
