Furnidec Business, held from 18 to 20 March at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre, will once again serve as a key driving force for the furniture sector, placing emphasis on extroversion.

The most historic exhibition of the sector serves as the field where all new furniture and interior design trends will be presented, with the participation of approximately 145 trade visitors invited to attend from throughout the country, as well as Cyprus and Turkey.

Furnidec Business addresses the majority of professionals working in the sectors of furniture, design and decoration, placing great emphasis on both domestic and professional furniture.

The exhibition, organised by TIF-Helexpo, hosts professionals from various fields, such as furniture and decoration traders, as well as architectures, decorators, designers and hoteliers.

This year’s Furnidec Business is enriched with parallel events that upgrade its added value.

The most outstanding event held this year is the ‘Furniture Export Marketing Forum’. This conference on the current status of the Greek furniture sector is a purely addressed to professionals and will provide an analysis of current conditions in our country regarding the sector.

Its goal is to analyse the importance of extroversion and penetration of Greek furniture-makers into international markets.

For this purpose, the conference will include acclaimed speakers such as Mr Matteo Grigolini, a researcher and representative CSIL Milan, the Centre for Industrial Studies, who will present analyses based on the latest report of the Institute. Other speakers will include two representatives of the ‘Enterprise Greece’ agency, Mr Velissarios Dotsis, the CEO, and Mr Menos Aggelakis, the external trade coordinator.

The 1^st Furniture Export Marketing Forum will be held at Thessaloniki International Exhibition and Congress Centre on Friday, 18 March, from 15.30 to 19.30.

17/03/2016 – 17:03

A ‘breath of fresh air’ in the fruit and vegetable sector

A ‘fresh’ exhibition that is gradually entering a period of maturity, bearing the best possible ‘fruit’, will welcome exhibitors and visitors from 21 to 23 April 2016 at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre.

This exhibition is none other than ‘Freskon’, which is not merely an exhibition, but an international trade show that is particularly important for the fresh fruit and vegetable sector.

The exhibition includes numerous parallel events, including the B2B FRESHCON MARKET, as well as the highly expected 1^st International Vegetables & Asparagus Conference.

At Freskon, the ‘fruit’ of the collaboration between TIF-Helexpo and ‘Froutonea’ magazine, exhibitors and visitors will have the opportunity to carry out new business deals and partnerships, as they will be able to meet with the most important distributors of fresh fruit and vegetables in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

10/03/2016 – 11:31

66% increase in trade visitor numbers at Detrop Boutique and Artozyma, 20% at the Hellenic Jewellery Fair

The Detrop Boutique and Artozyma exhibitions, which presented the latest developments in the sectors of food-beverages, bakery and confectionery at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre from 26 to 29 February, recorded high visitor numbers, with a total of 31,137 visitors (trade visitors and special categories-group visits). In fact, the number of trade visitors who visited the two exhibitions was increased by 66% compared to last year’s number. At the same time, the number of trade visitors at the Hellenic Jewellery Fair, which was held in Athens, was increased by 20%.

Detrop Boutique and Artozyma hosted over 300 exhibitors at six pavilions (covering a gross area of 20,000 m²), representing numerous different fields of the sectors of food-beverages, bakery and confectionery, with enterprises producing both brand-name and private-label products. The 110 trade visitors and hosted buyers who attended the two exhibitions came from Romania, Germany, Spain, Austria, Russia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, England, Cyprus and Albania, and attended over 3,000 business meetings with Greek exhibitors. The Hellenic Jewellery Fair hosted 270 exhibitors, covering an exhibition area of 6,100 m², and was attended by trade visitors from Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, Lebanon and the Netherlands.

The parallel events schedule of Detrop Boutique and Artozyma was particularly rich, ranging from pop-up restaurants with interesting gastronomic proposals, Master Classes by distinguished chefs and tasting events to impressive confectionery creations and the 2^nd Pan-Hellenic Bread Championship. In fact, with the support of TIF-Helexpo, the winner was named as the National Baking Team that will represent our country at sector events abroad.

Apart from the exhibition and business aspect, though, the two exhibitions also had a social dimension. For this reason, TIF-Helexpo would like to thank its exhibitors for the products (food, bread, sweets and raw materials) they donated to the Greek Children’s Village in Filyro, to the Deputy Mayoralty for Social Welfare of the Municipality of Thessaloniki for the soup kitchens, and to refugees.

07/03/2016 – 12:41