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VICENZAORO Visitors +5% to 35K as More Non-Italian Buyers Attend
Feb 15, 2016 2:24 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Total traffic at the VICENZAORO January trade show rose 5
percent to more than 35,000 visitors as international interest increased,
according to the event’s organizers.
The fair in
Vicenza, Italy, which was held from
January 22 to 27, saw 19,381 buyers turn up, with 5-percent growth in the
number of buyers from outside Italy to 8,774 from 130 countries, Fiera di
Vicenza said in a statement released February 11. Italian operator numbers
increased 4.3 percent to 10,607, indicating a possible recovery of the domestic
market, the company said.
Products from 1,500 brands
from 31 countries were on show across nine pavilions, covering 29,000 square
meters.
“We are particularly pleased with the results in
terms of visitor figures for this VICENZAORO,” said Matteo Marzotto, president
of Fiera di Vicenza.
There was “strong growth” in
visitor numbers from the U.S. but number of buyers from China and Hong Kong
dropped, “confirming the slowdown in the Chinese economy,” the company said.
The central theme of the fair was “The Golden Voice,” which
involved giving a voice to important stakeholders in the gold and jewelry
industries at workshops, seminars and meetings. There was also a special focus
on technology used in the industry as part of the 39th T-GOLD, an international
show dedicated to machinery and technology used in the gold and jewelry
industry. It was attended by 133 businesses, including 111 Italian companies.
This January’s VICENZAORO brought back the format of
“VICENZAORO The Boutique Show” first introduced in January 2015 in which the
Fiera di Vicenza exhibition center was set out as a “Jewelry City” with six
business clusters.
A number of initiatives were launched
at the show, including a presentation of an agreement between Fiera di Vicenza
and Arezzo Fiere e Congressi, supported by the Minister of Economic
Development, to boost recognition of Italian jewelry across the world. The
agreement includes coordinated management of the trade-fair calendar for the
industry in 2016-17 and creating a single trade-fair platform for the Italian
gold and jewelry sector.
The next global VICENZAORO fair
is the VICENZAORO Dubai edition scheduled for April 14 to 17, organized by DV
Global Link, a joint venture between Fiera di Vicenza and the Dubai World Trade
Centre.
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