Bangkok--18 Sep--Idealist Communications
Leading Thai’s furniture manufacturers and exporters are enthusiastically attending IMM Cologne 2007 and get themselves ready to making a splash on the international scene. The fair is expected to draw more than 130,000 visitors from 120 countries.
Mr. Phusit Sasitaranondha, Managing Director of Expolink Global Network Ltd. which is the official representative of IMM Cologne 2007 Fair, revealed that the company has team up with Koelnmesse GmbH to organize the “IMM Cologne 2007 Fair”; the leading international furniture trade fair, in Cologne, Germany. This world-class furniture fair with 293,000 m? of exhibition space will not only become the meeting place for the international interior design scene and the center of furniture commercial but will also offering a wealth of inspiration and fascinating impressions.
“There will be more than 1,400 exhibitors from 50 countries e.g. Italy, German, France, Denmark, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Norway, Thailand, etc. The exhibition will cover all design aspects of the home--from furniture to lighting, textiles, and accessories. The fair is expected to draw more than 130,000 trade visitors, which are exporters, importers, interior designers, architects, and buyers from all over the world. “ Mr. Pusit said.
He also added that “A number of businessmen from the sector and foremost furniture designers in Thailand are very keen to participate the fair as Thailand’s Department of Export Promotion will provide high support to the exhibitors because the department realized that this will be a very good opportunity for Thai’s furniture exporters to promote their products to the World’s market. Moreover, Koelnmesse will also help promoting Thai Pavilion.”
Mr. Pusit mentioned about the situation of furniture industry in Thailand that “Currently, Furniture industry in Thailand has shown a very good progress, especially in applying the creative materials to the designs and modern lifestyle. Nowadays, Thai designers are well accepted internationally. But, we need to pay more attention on the competition; especially China; our direct competitor. During the past few years, China used to stress its effort in increasing the sales, but now China has also provided well-designed products. Therefore, Thailand must seriously improve our designs in order to compensate with the increase in labor cost and Thai government should provide more support to the sector in this aspect. Once our designs are well accepted by World market, they will add a lot of values to ours products.
Mr. Michael Dreyer; Vice-President Asia-Pacific of Koelnmesse Pte Ltd. in Singapore revealed that the IMM Cologne 2007 Fair will be held during 15-21 January 2007. Highlight of the fair are the exhibition of ideal habitats by the World’s renowned designers from Japan and UK, and the presentations of latest trends in shapes, colors, patterns, and materials by a number of World’s foremost designers.
The Koelnmesse Group is one of the world’s largest trade show organizing companies and is the fourth largest in term of exhibition space. On regular basis, The Koelnmesse Group is host to over 42,000 exhibiting companies from 120 countries and two million visitors from 175 countries.
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