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Unsinkable trade shows
It's been four years since we started attending the world's major trade shows, following their reopening after the devastation of the Covid years. What can we say about them now? It seems that most have weathered the storm quite well, as few have disappeared altogether. Nevertheless, they have transformed rather dramatically, and everything suggests that these changes will continue in an uncertain world where adaptability will be crucial in the face of geopolitical instability and the inexorable rise of technology, such as artificial intelligence, which is revolutionizing everything in its path. In this context, the organizers have managed to capture the zeitgeist. Here, then, is an overview of the situation as we know it today.
In the context of planned development, it seemed obvious to the Kaigo teams that Taichung was the ideal launching pad for the 2025 edition of Taiwan Industry week.
As it has every decade, and even since time immemorial, the famous trilogy of early-year trade fairs takes up its winter quarters in Frankfurt, on the occasion of the famous trilogy Heimtextil, Ambiente and Christmasworld.
China is not spared, even though it continues to assert its power. The 2025 edition, an acronym for China International Hardware Show confirmed its role as a strategic hub for the global hardware sector.
As every year, at the end of winter and according to tradition, the MIFF trade show will kick off the season of major furniture fairs in the Asia Pacific region. While the opening date may seem far off at present, the Informa teams are already hard at work…
But Taiwan isn't just a tech paradise; it also boasts numerous sectors in which Taiwanese companies excel, as visitors to the trade show will see. Taiwan Industry week .
Shanghai, October 10-12, 2025 – The countdown has begun for the 22nd edition of the China International Hardware Show (CIHS), qui investira le Shanghai New International Expo Centre.
The organizers from the GILE Exhibition peuvent aujourd’hui se dire plus que satisfaits, et savourer leur succès, avec cette édition qui fêtait ses trente ans en affichant des chiffres record, que ce soit en termes de nombre de visiteurs, d’exposants…
The spoga+family This is proven by a dedicated trade fair which, year in and year out, brings together everything that can be done in the field of leisure and outdoor living, as was the case during this 2025 edition…
Year after year, we keep saying it: the MIFF trade show is unique in the world of professional events across all sectors. This gathering at the ends of the earth is such a rare event that the days spent there...
There is no doubt that summer will be hot in the megalopolis of Guangzhou between June 9 and 12. It will even shine brightly at the China Import & Export Fair Complex, which is none other than the gigantic exhibition center, which will host the very famous GILE which will celebrate its 30th anniversary there
Pre-MIFF 2025 show
Beyond these dream images, the country has become one of the most dynamic in the South East Asian region, as proven every year the MIFF trade show which will be held from March 1st to 4th. It continues to weigh with all its influence and the quality of its offer.
Retromobile 2025
A French pride
In a gloomy socio-economic context, opportunities to rejoice in French know-how are rather rare. Fortunately, they exist, and there is one event that never ceases to prove it, it is the Retromobile show qui se tiendra du 5 au 9 février sur le célèbre parc des expositions de la porte de Versailles.
Taiwan Industry week
Anatomy of a success story
We were fortunate enough to experience, for a few days during our visit to the Taiwan Hardware Show, which was held in Taipei from October 23 to 27.
Salon Lighting Fall Edition:
Eco Expo Asia
The big comeback
So we set our sights on the fall edition of Lighting coupled with Eco Expo Asia which was held from October 27 to 30, is organized as it should be by HKTDC
CIHS 2024
Tools of the World's Workshop
If there is one cliché that is widely anchored in people’s minds about China, it is that of the world’s workshop. However, this image did not appear for nothing, as it is true that the Middle Kingdom…
CIHS Sanghai
The big comeback
After an interlude caused by a much too long Covid episode, the show CIHS acronym of China International Hardware Show, resumes its essential place as a platform dedicated to tools.
Pre-show IMM Cologne 2025
Heading North
This is not an extended vacation that Koelnmesse invited the press to an international conference, far from it. Indeed, the famous organizers of world-renowned trade fairs had a lot to tell us.
GILE Guangzhou 2024
When infinity takes power
Let's be honest, we were a little skeptical about the figures announced by the organizers of the GILE trade show qui s’est tenu du 9 au 12 juin dans la mégapole de Guangzhou, un des cœurs battant de l’industrie Chinoise.
Taiwan Hardware Show
The treasures of an island
The Republic of China, as it is called, is one of the major players in the technological revolution that will shake up our world. The phenomenon has not escaped the attention of the organizers of the Taiwan Hardware Show which will be held from October 23 to 25 in the heart of the capital Taipei.
spoga+gafa 2024
The only ones in the world
If there is a trade show that we can say has no equivalent in the world, it is the spoga+gafa. En effet nulle part ailleurs se trouve un telle offre et ceci en fait un rendez vous incontournable.
MIFF 2024
The art of synthesis
By passing the symbolic milestone of thirty years, the Salon MIFF has shown that it has reached a formidable level of maturity. Beyond remarkable figures and statistics, this 2024 edition has clearly demonstrated that over the years it has been possible to offer an event that has been able to establish a link between all cultures in the world of furniture and decoration.
Guanghzou International
Lighting Exhibition
On the road to records
True to its reputation, China is the country of excess and proves it in the field of trade shows, particularly with the Guanghzou International Lighting Exhibition.
Salon Maison et objet hiver 2024
Upmarket
Nothing dampened the enthusiasm of visitors to the show, not even the snow or the cold which fell on the Paris region. The annual high mass of interior design and decoration in the broadest sense of the term has once again lit up the aisles of the Villepinte exhibition center for its winter 2024 edition...
MIFF 2024 exhibition
Always higher, always stronger
In a few weeks, more precisely from March 1st to 4th, the MIFF trade show aura franchi un cap symbolique. En effet celui ci va connaître sa trentième édition.
Retromobile 2024 Les protecteurs de l’héritage
In a few weeks and more precisely from January 31 to February 4, 2024, Porte de Versailles will be held, Retromobile le grand rendez vous de la voiture ancienne.
Winter fairs Frankfurt
Let the festivities begin
As soon as the end-of-year celebration lanterns have been extinguished, Frankfurt is preparing for other celebrations, not least since the famous winter trade fairs will be held during the month of January.
IMM Cologne 2024
Back to the top
Let it be said if there was still a need, the IMM show is one of the very heavyweights in the world of global shows dedicated to furniture and interior decoration. It is even fair to say that he is one of the leaders.
Taiwan Hardware Show 2023
Stronger than ever
In these terrible times shaking the world, Taiwan is considered a potential hotspot. When we arrived in the capital Taipei, we expected to find a tension at least as high as that which has reigned in Europe since the terrible attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists.
Intertextile Shanghai 2023
Autumn Edition
Oriental mysteries
We went there on the occasion of the Intertextile show in Shanghai one of the flagship events organized by Messe Frankfurt in the Asia Pacific region…
Guangzhou GILE Fair
As in the best days
If there is one event that will have marked the year of trade fairs, it is the GILE, an acronym for Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and this for a very simple reason. Indeed, this one was held in China, and that alone justified all the curiosities, questions that nothing and no one could escape.
Eternal Interzum
This is what we can call a return to business with a bang. The 2023 edition of Interzum trade fairs which was held from May 9 to 12 in the famous exhibition center of the city of Cologne recorded scores beyond all expectations during the three days of the fair. But is it any wonder?
Maison et Objet
The taste of beauty
Almost everything has been said about the Home and Object phenomenon, a real UFO in the world of trade shows. Barely affected by the Covid, due to a calendar which almost allowed it to pass between the drops of the disasters experienced by the major international meetings...
Trade fairs Heimtextil, Ambiente, Christmasworld, Creative World
Winter at the shows
After such a long absence, we had almost forgotten the power of the famous winter fairs in Frankfurt. These were well remembered by our good memories by signing first-rate performances…
Malaysia International Furniture Fair
The higher speed
It happened in 2022, so near, so far. In these times of great uncertainty, Informa, the organizer of the MIFF show, had decided to relaunch the event, when the world was barely recovering from a pandemic which had been playing yo-yo since 2020.
Esprit Meuble 2022
Small trade show turned big
Who would've believed that ? While during the previous decade, the Paris furniture fair, out of breath, was absorbed in the Maison & Objet movement under the name Meuble Paris, no one gave much so that one day France would once again become a place totally dedicated to the sector.
Light and Building 2022,
Under an air of general mobilization
So here we are again in this month of October, an appointment whose subject has become a major issue for the future of the world. Indeed, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict shows us how much there is an essential energy in our daily life.
Taïwan Hardware Show 2022
Taiwan, The indomitable
Unknown to the general public or almost until the Covid crisis, the island of Taiwan is increasingly in the headlines for various reasons. The main one is obviously this threat of military invasion of mainland China…
Eisenwarenmesse in commando mode
After suffering two years of disappearance from the radar screens of the world of trade shows, Eisenwarenmesse one of the finest jewels in the portfolio Koelnmesse, has just made its big comeback on the international scene. Like all the other appointments of the Rhenish organizer, this one did not come out of these dark years completely intact.
Maison et Objet, the magic bazaar
5 days of happiness in the world of decoration, elegance, pleasure of the senses, such is the menu that the organizers of this back-to-school edition of the show have proposed to us. Maison et Objet. These moments are all the more welcome as the time does not lend itself to frank laughter. After the dark years of the Covid, here is the world under the noise of boots on the side of Eastern Europe...
IFA, green flag
on High Tech
Who says IFA who Hi Tech and this postulate, no one can dispute it. This exceptional show in many respects is the rendezvous of the present and especially of the future. It is therefore to a veritable symphony of technologies present today and tomorrow in our daily lives to which the Berlin meeting invited us...
Ambiente, here comes the heavy artillery again
It's going to heat up on the Frankfurt side from February 3 to 7 with the big return of the Star Show Ambiente, champion of all categories of fairs dedicated to consumer goods. And he will not be alone, since he will be accompanied by two muscular bodyguards since they will be the above-named Creative World and above all the inimitable Christmasworld. No doubt the mixture will be tasty, and it's a safe bet that we will find the crowd of the big days in the gigantic exhibition center of the city.
Spoga+gafa 2022 the eternal return
If there is a show awaited with hope for some, skepticism and doubts for others, it is the spoga+gafa which was making its big comeback after two years of absolute scarcity due to a schedule that forced the Koelnmesse teams to comply with the restrictions imposed by the Covid epidemic. It is therefore with great curiosity that this particular edition in many respects has been observed...
Heimtextil 2023, In sustainable mode
After the July interlude, the Heimtextil salon is finally back in business. This one will be held from January 10 to 13, 2023, thus finding its usual dates in the calendar of appointments intended for consumer goods, of which it will mark the opening.
Messe Frankfurt is off to a strong start
If there are shows that have been strongly impacted by the pandemic, it is those of Frankfurt. The curtain fell more than two years ago on the large German group, ranked second in the world for the organizers of professional trade fairs, many of which are dedicated to the layout and decoration of the house with behemoths like Ambiente. , and its 5,000 exhibitors, Heimtextil dedicated to household linen in all its forms, Christmasworld who tells Christmas with so much talent, Light and building leader in all categories of the sector lighting, or ISH.
Hopes and questions
Taiwan Hardware Show and International Metal Technology
For more than two years the tradeshow the most efficient in the field of tools, DIY and its derivatives, which was held at Taïwan in October suffers the relentless lockdown of its border due to the Covid which continues to plague, even if the daily cases seem to be easing. What about October? Very clever who can predict what the situation will be. The virus therefore remains the essential question mark for a booming show which has not been able to welcome any visitors for almost three years.