Three for One: Spring Operation - 2009 spring expos
Source: China Textile Magazine Date: 2009-04-07
In Chinese culture, spring heralds thriving, and now it already knocked 2009's door and begins inseminating hopes. Hence, al though the finance turmoil continues to sweep the globe, Chinese business community has strong ambitions to further expand its presence and market share, so does Chinese textile industry. Under such circumstance, in March, Chinese National Textile&Apparel Council (CNTAC) decides to launch a campaign consisting of China International Clothing&Accessories Fair (CHIC) , Yarn Expo, Intertextile Beijing Apparel Fabrics, which feature "new product, new technique, new technology as well as new trend" to refresh market and seek more opportunities..."
CHIC is Ready
China International Clothing&Accessories Fair (CHIC) has been co-organized by China National Garment Association, China World Trade Center Co., Ltd, and Sub-council of Textile of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade annually in Beijing, China since 1993. CHIC 2009, which is the 17th session, will be held in the new China International Exhibition Center on March 26-29, 2009.
In the 17 years since its establishment, CHIC, the most important fashion exhibition in Asia, has grown into a prestigious fashion event that serves as a platform of brand exhibition and trade with unmatched business values and industrial and social infuences.
After a strategic adjustment, CHIC has expanded its scope to a new record. Every year, 1000-odd brand exhibitors and thousands of fashion buyers come from countries and regions around the world. They gather in Beijing to communicate and exchange and businesses take place.
In CHIC exhibition halls, events such as "China Fashion Industry Collection", "Premium Ready-to-Wear Garment Brand Collection", "China Garment Retailer Joint Conference", "China Garment Forum" and "China Garment Brand Annual Awards" are held, and CHIC is referred to the "barometer", "propeller" and "Olympic Games" of the Chinese fashion industry."CHIC carries the mission of not only exhibiting and serving the global fashion industry, but also guiding and propelling it, so that every participating individual and company, no matter it is an enterprise, a brand, a merchant, a buyer, a designer or an agent, will be able to improve," says the organizer. CHIC 2009, ushered into a new era, will change from the traditional"business-and-trade" type to a multi-dimensional integration of "premium fashion", "business elite", and "cross-functional convergence". With brand new innovations of organizational systems and presentation patterns, it will reinforce brand communications, strengthen specialized business services, increase functional activities, introduce the idea of cross-functional convergence, and optimize visual effects.
By applying the concepts of "lifestyle" and "fashion trend" and with themes of "Do Good", "Rhythm and Melody" and "Butterfy Dance", CHIC 2009 will design the hall plan byproducts and styles. There will be eight zones in the 100,000-square-meter exhibition hall, which are: Men's Business Attire/Business Attire, Casual / Sporty/ Jeans/ Street Wear, Leather, Infant and Children's Wear/ Maternity Wear, Women 's We a r / Cashmere / Bridal's Wear/ Formal Wear/ Body and Intimate Wear, Women's Premium Business Attire/ Ladies' Wear / Young Fashion, Design Lounge, Overseas Exhibitors. Facing a strategic opportunity for the Chinese fashion industry, CHIC sticks to the guideline of "premium, professional, and resource-oriented" services to innovate, transform and upgrade. The purpose is to further build CHIC into a fashion exhibition brand that offers forward-looking information and industry-leading opportunities and facilitates people to communicate and change, driving fundamental development and all-round integration of the fashion industry with related industries.
Intertextile Features More
Intertextile Beijing Apparel Fabrics, which will be held 29 - 31 March 2009 at the China International Exhibition Centre, has expanded a focus on wool products for ladies and menswear and will offer a new Orientation Tour and lucky drawing for a tour of Beijing.
The show will feature 1,300 exhibitors in 48,000 sqm, to highlight products for the spring/summer 2010 buying season and is a key feature of the northern Chinese textile trade calendar.
As a bonus for visitors, the show will for the first time include a special orientation tour of the venue on the first two show days to help familiarized trade buyers with product and country zones and other useful features.
Held twice daily, at 10:30am and again at 2:30pm, visitors can take a tour to learn about the show features: country and region pavilions, seminars, and a free shuttle to the other major textile trade events taking place in the city, including the China International Clothing&Accessories Fair (CHIC), and Yarn Expo Spring (for apparel fbres and yarns).Visitors who register online before 16 February will also be entered into a lucky drawing for a complimentary city tour of Beijing.
"Visitors to Inter textile Beijing can not only engage in trade but can take advantage of fashion week in the city, including CHIC and Yarn Expo," says Ms Wendy Wen, director of trade fairs for Messe Frankfurt (HK), "We have found that many buyers combine a trip to the show with factory visits as well, to take better advantage of their travel budgets. They also can see one of China's most historic cities and the lucky drawing is a small token we are offering to make their visit more enjoyable."
Wool suppliers add new products to show
Inter textile Beijing will include a focus on wool producers this year, with some of the top suppliers on site. Exhibitors will feature fabrics for men's and women's wear in wool and wool blends including silks, cashmere and rare fbres such as chinchilla.
Hield, one of the leading worsted manufactures in England, will feature weave super 230's wool and blends of cashmere, vicuna, chinchilla, silk and other noble fi-bres. Stock is supported in China for cut, length and service.
Also from the United Kingdom, J & J Minis , under HFW (Huddersfeld) Ltd, will feature high quality fabrics with cashmere, silk and fine wool. The company stocks a supported range for tailors and garment makers.
William Halstead Ltd, also from the United Kingdom, will present classical fancy worsted sittings, super 80's to super 200's, specialty mohair's, cashmere, escorial and fennel sittings. And from Turkey, Yunsa will feature wool and wool blends including wool/linen, wool/ pes, wool/pes Aycra, wool/mohair and wool/cashmere.
In addition to wool, this show features cotton, silk, linen, ramie, man-made, knitted and other materials along with accessories. Yarn Expo Kick Off The specialty trade event Yarn Expo Spring returns to the China World Trade Centre in Beijing from 30 Mar - 1 April 2009. The show is an exclusive event for this upstream segment of the textile industry and one of the few shows of its kind in Asia.
Despite challenges facing the global textile industry, fiber and yarn are still very much in demand in China. This demand is buoyed by the continued, albeit more modest, rise in textile exports, as well as growing domestic demand particularly for high quality specialty yarns from abroad.
Yarn Expo Spring, which attracted 3,500 visitors from 41 countries in 2008, has been designed to help international suppliers tap this potential. Visitors to past shows have attended from across China as well as Europe, Asia, North and South America and even Africa and include manufacturers of both knitted and woven fabrics, knitwear, designers and import/export companies.
"This show is significant in that it offers fiber and yarn producers a very specific and efficient venue to find trade buyers in China," said Ms Wendy Wen, Director of Trade Fairs for Messed Frankfurt (HK) Ltd. "Exhibitors know that any visitor at this show will be a serious potential customer." Beijing is the spring fashion destination in ChinaYarn Expo also benefits from two other important trade events taking place. Inter textile Beijing Apparel Fabrics (29 - 31 March 2009) features more than 1,000 top Chinese and international textile manufacturers and the China International Clothing and Accessories Fair (CHIC), one of China's leading garment fairs, will run from 26 - 29 March 2009.
Together, these events offer added value to anyone visiting from the textile industry. At the same time, the shows offer one of the earliest glimpses into the Spring / Summer 2010 trends.
Yarn Expo features natural fbres and yarns including cotton, wool, silk and linen/ramie; regenerated and synthetic products; specialty products; elastic, fancy and blended yarns and computer-related services.
