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ElectronicAsia 2002 Completely Booked
October 1, 2002 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Hong Kong -- On October 11, electronicAsia opens its gates here. The regional key fair for electronics and electronics production organized by the Messe Muenchen GmbH was booked up long before its registration deadline three months ago.
With 515 exhibitors from 15 countries, an improvement over 2001's 506 exhibitors, electronicAsia is now up against the limits of space; up to now it shares the Hongkong Convention and Exhibition Centre with the Hongkong Electronics Fair, Asia's biggest fair for consumer electronics, and the Hongkong International Lighting Fair.
The proximity to almost 1,600 exhibitors of the Hongkong Electronics Fair carries big advantages for the exhibiting companies at electronicAsia as they can meet the buyers of their electronic components. The Hongkong International Lighting Fair with its nearly 400 exhibitors will take place concurrently for the last time in 2002. This fair will be relocated as of next year to make room for electronicAsia.
The continuously growing number of exhibitors (up 29 percent since 1997) shows that the global market caution makes China even more attractive as a market. China has forged ahead with opening up its economy and its accession to the World Trade Organization: especially the electronics industry expects a growth of up to 40 percent in the next few years; China is expected to become the world's second biggest market for electronics within the first decade of the new millennium.
One of the first steps for electronics companies from Europe, America and the whole of Asia, wanting to profit from the growth in Far East, is to take part in a fair for decision-makers on the spot: for electronic components and electronics assemblies as well as electronic production in South China and South East Asia, this is electronicAsia in Hong Kong. In 2001 more than 70 per cent of the exhibitors showed product innovations for the Asian market, and nearly 90 per cent took the opportunity to talk directly to potential customers and partners on location.
From October 11 through 14, 2002, Hong Kong is the ideal site to meet electronics specialists and decision-makers from the Far East, as more than 60 percent of the expected 20,000 trade visitors will arrive from Asia, mainly Hong Kong, North Asia and South East Asia.
electronicAsia is a trade fair conjointly organized by MMI Munich International Trade Fairs Pte. Ltd., subsidiary of Messe Muenchen GmbH, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Hong Kong's largest exhibition organizer.
At electronicAsia 2001 the 506 exhibiting companies from 17 countries brought nearly 19,000 trade visitors to Hong Kong. About 60 per cent of the visitors came from Asia to see products, services and innovations of international suppliers, and to make contact with them.