Horsham council officials and other business community leaders fly out this weekend to represent the region at a Chinese trade fair.

Mayor Pam Clarke says some of the Wimmera’s products and services will be exposed to an estimated tow million people at the five-day fair.

She says it will be difficult to assess immediately whether the trip has been worthwhile.

“When you’re dealing with China you need to build relationships and that doesn’t happen with one visit,” she said.

“In Shepparton and Mildura, I know they’ve had some instant success, but it’s hard to determine whether we will have instant success or not, or whether that will just continue and develop into something as the time goes on.”

Source: abc.net.au/news

 

Reed Sells ITEC, DSEi Trade Shows

Reed Exhibitions, owner of the upcoming ITEC training and simulation trade show in Europe, has sold that conference and two others to Clarion Events Ltd for an undisclosed price.

The sale comes nearly a year after Reed, a division of Reed Elsevier, announced it intended to get out of the market for military shows. Along with ITEC, which is being held this year in Stockholm on June 10-12, Clarion will purchase DSEi – Defence Systems and Equipment International – held every two years in London and LAAD, the Latin American Aerospace and Defence show held biannually in Latin America.

Clarion said the three shows have been sold “as going concerns” and said the sale will involve the transfer of staff as protected by U.K. employment protection laws.

Clarion describes itself as the largest independent event organizer in the United Kingdom. Clarion’s Web site says it run 80 business-to-business and business-to-consumer events that serve 15 market sectors that include leisure, entertainment, finance, retail, gaming, fine art and energy.

The company employs a staff of more than 200 working in four offices: London (Earls Court and Hatton Garden); Birmingham (NEC); St Charles, Michigan in the U.S. and Maarsen in the Netherlands.

Source: defensenews

 

New B2B blog directory for Professional Photograhers – PhotoSavings.co.uk

PhotoSavings.co.uk is a blog to help professional and amature photographers get the best services and offers for their businesses. PhotoSavings website was started by Ian McGraw LBIPP a photographer who found that searching for the best people to deal with at the best prices was a very time consuming process. Time that could be better spent being in touch with clients following up leads.

Offers and services that appear on PhotoSavings.co.uk are the result of genuine vetting on behalf of the author – either through having used a service or product himself or been recommended a particular service or product. However the author is also keen to talk to photographic service providers, merchants and manufacturers to forge new relationships and add high quality entries to the directory.

PhotoSavings.co.uk was born to provide a trusted business to business service. The hope is that PhotoSavings will become the first and only stop directory for photographic professionals.

Your feedback on PhotoSavings is welcome as are suggestions for your own product or service recommendations.

Source: freepressreleases

 

ROSTI Take Part in International Plastics Processing Trade Fair

Rosti is taking part at the 12th International Fair of Plastics Processing PLASTPOL which will be held at Kielce, Poland. The Plastic industry is well represented at the exhibition; from plastic processors to tool makers to equipment manufacturers.

Kielce Trade Fair Centre.

This is the largest plastics processing exhibition in Poland and Central Europe and will be held at Kielce Trade Fairs on 27-30 May 2008. During the twelve years of its activity, the International Fair of Plastics Processing PLASTPOL has become one of the major events dedicated to the plastics processing industry.

This will be the 3rd year in which Rosti exhibit at PLASTPOL, in support of the continuing sales growth in Poland. Rosti is one of the leading appliance and major module suppliers to the Domestic Appliances and Business Machine markets in Europe, and will be exhibiting Rosti’s latest technical capabilities in moulding and decorative finishes.

You can visit the Rosti stand at unit D-63 .

Source; azom

 

Apptus Technologies AB: DeGuleSider Delivers B2B Site with Apptus Solution

LUND, Sweden & COPENHAGEN, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apptus, a global provider of Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) solutions, today announced that the major directory service of Denmark, De Gule Sider, has successfully implemented Apptus platform to launch their brand new site Allbiz.dk, a business to business directory service.

“We’re very excited and proud to accomplish our vision to develop a state of the art B2B directory. This has been possible thanks to the Apptus Theca Platform, set to give deep, precise and highly structured search results,” says Patrick Mesterton, Online Marketing & Sales Director, DGS.

Allbiz.dk focuses on B2B customers and services exclusively. It is an excellent tool for small and medium sized companies when searching for new suppliers, customers or partners. In one single place Allbiz.dk provides information that is essential for development of B2B relations such as key financial figures for evaluation of companies.

The search engine behind allbiz.dk is highly flexible and capable of accommodating the most advanced search queries of our users. This has been made possible thanks to the great technical expertise at Apptus. Thanks to the flexible mind of their employees we have a solution that meets our market requirements, says Pernille Eiberg Brocks, Product Manager, DGS.

Allbiz.dk is the latest search solution that Apptus has created for DGS during the last few years. DGS has with the help of Apptus turned their site into a first-rate service which has doubled the amount of data, users and performed searches, whilst keeping the same platform thanks to the Apptus Theca® flexible and advanced solution.

For us it’s stimulating and rewarding to work closely with an advanced company such as DGS and the Allbiz.dk project, says Michael Atlevi, CEO at Apptus. It’s a company that moves in new directions on the market. Furthermore it’s a proof of the excellency of our Apptus Theca® platform. It is scalable both in volume load and complexity and handles a company in serious growth. Apptus Theca® is continually being refined and developed at a pace that ensures and strengthens our customers’ leading positions over the years.

About Apptus

Apptus is a private company, headquartered in Sweden with offices in Canada and England. As the Nordic leader within the field of search and database technology, Apptus provides solutions and products that ensure accessibility for customers with growing data sets and strong demands for search logistics, relevant results and connections to the customer’s own business. Apptus primarily supplies solutions to customers within the fields of e-directory and e-commerce. Among the customers are Bokus, CDON, De Gule Sider, Eniro, Hitta, Lokaldelen and Lunarstorm. Apptus conducts research in search and database technology. Apptus’ keywords are quality, result and growth. For more information, please visit www.apptus.com.

About Allbiz/De Gule Sider

De Gule Sider® is the leading information service in Denmark with more than 374 million look ups per year in 101 telephone directories, at degulesider.dk, allbiz.dk, mobil.dgs.dk and information service 1811. De Gule Sider A/S is the largest publisher of telephone directories in Denmark with an annual number of copies exceeding more than 7 million directories. De Gule Sider employs approximately 600 people. De Gule Sider is a part of European Directories S.A. – one of Europes largest directory publishers with companies in several European countries.

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Kurdistan Region enters trade show season

KRG welcome companies that want to explore the business potential in the Region.Companies and visitors to the Kurdistan Region are getting ready for another year of trade shows and exhibitions that will help to introduce new products and services to the growing economy and build ties between business communities here and abroad.

This autumn Erbil International Fair will take place for the fourth successive year in Kurdistan’s capital city. Sulaimaniyah, the second city and the largest governorate by population, is also expected to host its third annual trade show.

In addition several thematic trade fairs will take place, including the very successful Italian Expo which returns to Erbil this summer. The Erbil Exhibition Centre will also host fairs for Iranian products, building and construction, food and agriculture, and a motor show.

Mr Abu Bangeen, the Director of the Erbil International Fair Company which manages the exhibition centre in the capital, said, “This year we have our most exciting and extensive programme of trade fairs to date, and we welcome companies that want to explore the business potential in the Kurdistan Region and use it as a springboard for the rest of Iraq as well.”

Source: kurdishglobe.net