These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Hong Kong's leading trade-fair organizer, took a chance amid the global downturn to lend more specialization to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (spring edition) 2009 and International ICT Expo 2009, by setting aside a hall in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center specially for the first spring edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting...
With the LED industrial chain in Taiwan having developed to considerable scale and sophistication, and the government working on a plan to replace traditional lamps with LED ones in four years islandwide, the time has come for Taiwan to set up quality inspection standards for LED lighting products. Representatives from the government, LED industry and R&D institutes on the island recently gat...
Gathering the best interior designers and furniture suppliers globally at the annual Imm Cologne, staged at the Koelnmesse in Cologne Jan. 19-25, is virtually a rite of passage for buyers worldwide who are looking for the newest and most popular trends in furniture. Regarded irrefutably just as influential as Saloni Milano of Italy, Imm Cologne equals the Italian counterpart in Europe for size, ...
Being the 23rd staging this year, the China International Furniture Fair Guangzhou (CIFFG) 2009, held March 18-30, 2009, has definitely earned its honor as the "Asian trading center for office furniture," during which hundreds of exhibitors displayed wide-ranging office, business, and household furniture in one of the biggest exhibitions venues globally. The CIFFG 2009, a 12-day event that is...
Buoyed by the success of the last show in 2007, the 6th edition of Automechanika Malaysia (Malaysia International Trade Fair for Automotive Parts, Equipment & Service Suppliers) was held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from March 25-28, 2009, attracting 133 exhibitors from 14 countries, as well as 4,521 visitors. The top five visitor countries outside Malaysia were Singapore, China, Thailan...
The IFFT/Interior Lifestyle Living 2008, which ran Nov. 19-22 at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight), proved that, despite the global recession, the market for interior decor and lifestyle furnishings is lively as ever, also confirmed by regular cable TV airings of actual interior space retrofits and ingenious DIY furniture building in Japan. The two-in-one trade fair attr...
The INTERMOT Cologne 2008, the trade show focused on "crotch rockets" and scooters held in Koln, Germany from October 7-12, made progress in all statistical aspects relative to the previous 2006 event. Clearly the German PTW show was important enough a business platform to warrant attendance from all the who's who in the field. The show organizer Koelnmesse says that 1,068 exhibitors from 36 ...
Earlier this year, the Beijing government announced a major auto stimulus plan to bolster China's recession-battered auto industry. The government cut the sales tax on small 1,600cc passenger cars from 10% to 5% and set aside RMB5 billion for subsidies of up to RMB20,000 for each consumer who replaces his or her motorized tricycle or commercial van with a new one. Both policies will remain eff...
China replaced the United States as the world's largest auto market in January, and its auto sales are expected to continue growing by 5-8% in 2009 thanks largely to a government auto-industry stimulus package announced in the first month of the year and the "Auto Go-Countryside" policy unveiled in March. The incentives offered by these programs include a cut in the sales tax on cars with engi...
Except key auto parts that call for sophisticated technologies, machinery and tight tolerances, native Chinese auto-parts makers have been making substantial qualitative upgrades-so now they are capable of turning out some common parts with OE (original equipment) standards for second and third-tier automakers. After years of rapid development, the OE auto-parts market in China may be summed up i...
