EXHIBITIONS
Busy stands at the show included
Verbindungselemente Engel GmbH, REISSER-Schraubentechnik GmbH and HECO-Schrauben GmbH. Going to print, official visitor numbers
had not been release but many fastener exhibitors in Hall 5.2 reported satisfactory results from the show. Richard Spence, marketing and sales director European operations for Phillips Screw Company, stated that the show had started slowly on the Sunday, but improved Monday and Tuesday with several interesting leads. Andy Knight, sales director at Precision Technology Supplies echoed the sentiments saying: “Sunday was fairly quite but those visitors that did come seemed to do so with a purpose, which made them worth talking with.” Monday
and Tuesday visitor flow was “good” for most of the days and again the quality of contacts was positive. Reyher export manager, Michael Martsch was pleased with the level of contacts during the first three days of the show – better than he had expected and with a substantial number of interesting visitors from outside Europe and from longer range. Expectations for the last day of the fair
on Wednesday were, however, consistently pessimistic with several exhibitors vociferous in their objection to a closing time of 6pm on a day, which even in the peak years of the International Hardware Fair, had always proven notoriously sterile. Kölnmesse continues its policy of
segregating non European exhibitors into Halls 1 to 3, which appears to meet
the approval of many of the fastener exhibitors. From the visiting buyers perspective the arrangement is somewhat less practical in that stands tend to be grouped by country of origin, rather than product range, necessitating a considerable amount of searching, some buyers commented, to find suppliers. Longstanding and major Taiwan exhibitors like Linkwell, Taiwan Shan Yin and Chite, as in previous years, opted for larger display stands. The majority of exhibitors, as usual, occupied standard booths. Visitor flow during Monday and Tuesday of the show appeared consistent without ever being exceptionally busy. The next International Hardware Fair in Köln will take place from the 9th March – 12th March 2014.
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