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Trade Fairs,
Exhibitions, Conferences: |
360 Interiorhome Madrid
Furniture & Home Show
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: IFEMA - Feria de Madrid
Antiquaris Barcelona
Between 29 March and 6 April 2008, Antiquaris Barcelona will once again be bringing together the finest exhibitors of antiques and modern art in Spain and Europe. The thirty-second edition of the exhibition will be held in Hall 1 at the Montjuïc exhibition centre.
Quality and prestige will once again be the defining characteristics of Antiquaris Barcelona, which is now established as a benchmark in the antiques and modern art market.
Barcelona Bridal Week
With a new name and a modern, avant-garde design, Barcelona Bridal Week opens its new web www.barcelonabridalweek.com. Available in Spanish, Catalan and English, the page is presented as an on-line shop window which will provide all the necessary information related with Barcelona Bridal Week, an event in which creativity and business are expressed through the Gaudí Brides Fashion Parade and the Barcelona Bridal Week-Noviaespaña Fashion show.
Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC)
BEC is an initiative designed to offer the best possible service for exhibitors, visitors and the general public in a modern, convenient, practical and highly functional trade fair facility.
Bisutex
Fashion Jewellery and Accessories Trade Fair
Bisutex has become a fundamental reference for all the professionals belonging to this dynamic economic sector: the world of fashion jewellery and accessories is currently firmly consolidated thanks to an offer which is strongly characterized by the aspects of fashion, design and distinction.
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Bread & Butter Barcelona
International trade fair for Street and Urban Wear.
With its “tradeshow for selected brands“, BREAD & BUTTER provides the concept of an innovative trade fair event for the progressive, contemporary clothing culture.
As an international specialist trade fair for Street and Urban Wear, BREAD & BUTTER BARCELONA represents a marketing and communication platform for brands, labels and designers from the areas of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, as well as for the best producers for fashion textiles and accessories.
With a unique brand portfolio, BREAD & BUTTER confirms its position as the leading international trade fair and trademark – it is the meeting point for buyers, traders and representatives from the textile industry press. Almost 90,000 visitors from over 100 countries and 900 exhibiting brands in July 2008 speak for themselves.
Casa Pasarela
Design Fair for Home Trends
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week
A renewed format and a new identity of Pasarela Cibeles: Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Cosmobelleza
International Trade Show for Hairdressing, Aesthetics and Wellness
Mediterranean is its inspiration and Cosmobelleza has become the professional trade show of South Europe. It is also, the top platform which directs its efforts towards the Mediterranean market, and sees it as a source of great professional and business related prospects. Cosmobelleza hosts the top brands of the beauty, aesthetics and wellness sectors worldwide and will be once more the most avant-garde meeting of the continent and an essential exchange point.
Organiser: Grupo Cosmobelleza
Venue: Gran Via M2
EuroBijoux
EuroBijoux & Accessories, the International fashion jewelry manufacturers’ fair. This event has become the meeting point for the fashion jewelry and accessories sector and a place where professionals from around the world come together and test their products in both the Spanish and international markets.
Venue: Mahon Exhibition, Minorca
Feria Valencia
Feria Muestrario Internacional de Valencia
Feria Valencia is the most veteran institution dedicated to the organization of trade fairs in Spain. Founded in 1917, it has 90 years experience to its credit. It is the first exhibition centre in Spain to earn certification from AENOR with the ISO 9002 standards, currently ISO 9001/2000. It also possesses certification from QAFE, the Association of Spanish Fairs, and the diploma of commitment to quality SICTED, System of Tourism Quality in Destination.
Feria Valencia is a co-founding member of UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry), AFE (Asociación de Ferias Españolas) and of MTFA (Mediterranean Trade Fairs Association). It is a full member of EMECA (European Major Exhibition Centres Association), of AFIDA (Asociación Internacional de Ferias de América) and of IAEE (International Association of Exhibitions Events)
As far as size is concerned, Feria Valencia is the biggest and most modern exhibition centre in Spain, and one of the top ten in the world with 231,000 square metres of indoor exhibition space.
Fira de Barcelona
Since its creation almost a hundred years ago, Fira Barcelona has grown steadily. Its splendid, historical site, which has undergone successive renovations and is adapted to all kinds of exhibits, occupies a surface area of 250,000 m2 and hosts 20,000 firms and 2,500,000 visitors representing all industrial and commercial sectors.
The more than 70 exhibitions are managed with a business approach and with a clear determination to project internationally, especially to European and Latin American markets. These factors were key for the European Union to appoint Fira Barcelona for developing business co-operation programmes among these markets.
The inauguration of the Gran Vía (M2) facilities, with a surface area of 111,500 m2, has contributed to the consolidation of Fira Barcelona as a basic instrument for the business progress of its exhibitors and visitors.
Fira de Girona
The Institució Firal de Girona, the Girona trade fair institution, was set up in 1984 in the city of Girona. This official, non profit-making body is legally constituted with all the powers necessary to pursue its ends.
The goals of the Fira are to promote and stimulate trade, industry and the services required of it, to expand commercial exchanges by creating and co-ordinating trade fair-type activities of all kinds, including both general trade fairs and industry-specific or thematic fairs and shows.
1988 saw the official opening of the Palau de Fires de Girona, the Girona exhibition centre, work on which was completed on 3rd June 1989.
Iberjoya
International Jewellery, Silverware, Watch and Auxiliary Industries Exhibition
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
IFEMA Feria de Madrid
Madrid Trade Fair
IFEMA, a trade fair institution that began its activities in 1980, has become one of the main generators of wealth throughout the Madrid Region. With nearly three decades of service behind it, not only in this Region but also throughout the rest of Spain, IFEMA has staged around 1,300 fairs, which have welcomed almost 75 million visitors.
Today, Feria de Madrid hosts the staging of more than 80 fairs at its facilities, which make up one of the most modern and efficient venues in Europe. These fairs occupy a total of 1.3 million net square metres of exhibition space, feature the participation of some 42,000 companies and welcome 4.5 million visitors, of whom almost 1.5 million are professionals. These figures have made IFEMA the leading trade fair body in Spain and a clear point of reference within the European trade fair sector.
Intergift
The International Gift, Jewellery and Fashion Jewellery Week
Intergift specializes in 7 sectors: with themes ranging from equipment and home decorating, textiles, household goods and accessories… to fantasy gifts, travel articles, all kinds of gadgets, stationery and toys, thus creating a wonderful work tool, as well as an excellent source of valuable information and experiences.
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Madrid International Furniture Exhibition
It has become one of the most significant events of the European furniture sector calendar due to its substantial exhibition space and its diverse content.
Products: General furniture, Auxiliary Furniture, Garden-terrace Furniture, Children Furniture, Upholstered Furniture, Textile, Matresses-Springs, Lighting, Decoration Accessories, Other.
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Modacalzado + Iberpiel
International Footwear and Leather Fashion Trade Fair
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid
Salón Look Internacional
The Professional Exhibition of the Image and the Integral Aesthetics
Organiser: STS Produccions
Venue: Feria de Madrid
SIMM
Madrid International Fashion Fair
Organiser: IFEMA
Venue: Feria de Madrid |
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Spain Economy
The Spanish economy boomed from 1986 to 1990 averaging 5% annual growth. After a European-wide recession in the early 1990s, the Spanish economy resumed moderate growth starting in 1994. Spain's mixed capitalist economy supports a GDP that on a per capita basis is equal to that of the leading West European economies. The center-right government of former President Jose Maria AZNAR successfully worked to gain admission to the first group of countries launching the European single currency (the euro) on 1 January 1999. The AZNAR administration continued to advocate liberalization, privatization, and deregulation of the economy and introduced some tax reforms to that end. Unemployment fell steadily under the AZNAR administration but remains high at 7.6%. Growth averaging more than 3% annually during 2003-07 was satisfactory given the background of a faltering European economy. The Socialist president, RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO, has made mixed progress in carrying out key structural reforms, which need to be accelerated and deepened to sustain Spain's economic growth. Despite the economy's relative solid footing significant downside risks remain including Spain's continued loss of competitiveness, the potential for a housing market collapse, the country's changing demographic profile, and a decline in EU structural funds. |
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