Trade shows

Although the great disruptor of the new industrial age is data and its analytics, automation in production processes also continues to advance and transform an industry that has barely changed in the last two centuries.

To face the digitalization, sustainability and robotization of the factories, the profile of the workers is also transformed becoming increasingly evident the appearance of new tasks and new profiles.

The new generation of the fashion supply chain has begun to squeeze the data, either to generate internal metrics or recharge ties with the rest of the actors.

The commerce arrived late to the digitalization, but once has taken the wave it has accelerated in its integration. The first Retail&Brand Experience World Congress (Rbewc) in Barcelona collected the last innovations.

In the five years in which Fira de Barcelona has held the event, the fair has doubled its number of expositors and it expects to exceed 22,000 visitors for the first time.

The French textile fair pointed out that the amount of British visitors dropped by 165 compared to the same edition of the previous year. This fair was visited by professionals of 127 countries.

The French fair places for the first time a firm wager on this market with the launch of the event Première Vision Sports in the United States, which will celebrate its first edition next August in Portland.

The global business of fashion fairs has accelerated their concentration in recent years, but it hasn’t been until 2018 when the biggest M&As have taken place in the sector with the entrance of two huge players: Informa and ITE Group.

The German organiser of fairs reinforces the cohesion among the different shows it has been releasing in the Le Bourget facility during the last decade in order strengthen Texworld.

With the incorporation of this show, the German fair organiser reinforces its Texcare fairs division, specialised in system, process and technology for garment industry’s finishes.

The most important fair in denim industry, which is celebrated biannually, has chosen the Italian city as the next international destiny to host the summer edition.

A 63.5% of companies participating in the Italian childrenwear event come from abroad. They are 360 companies in total, 45 more than in the last edition, which took place in January 2018.

Three years after selling the urban fashion fair to Zalando, the German entrepreneur Karl-Heinz Müller kicks off new Lock event, whose first edition will take place next January.

Through the acquisition deal, Panorama aims to broaden its offering and reach new audiences. The upcoming trade show edition will take place from January 15-17, 2019.

Following a minority stake acquisition, the German fair organizer aims to boost its growth in the United States and create European spin offs of trade shows like Capsule and Cabana.

Both trade shows will hold their upcoming edition from 17 to 20 September in Paris, with exhibitors mainly from Asia. This time, Texworld will introduce a new leather-dedicated space.

The Parisian fair is opening a new space in Moda City with music, panel discussions and special sale actions to attract both professional and end consumers. Besides, the company has acquired event planning agency Like That.

The sourcing trade show, built on the increasing demand experienced by the Moroccan textile industry, will hold its upcoming edition on 11 and 12 October at the Exhibition Paddock Moulay Hassan Circuit in Marrakech.

The B2C show, acquired by the ecommerce group in 2015, will operate an online store during the fair’s upcoming edition in September to sell the products introduced during the event.

The fair, which will be held from September 17 to 20, adds to its offer a space dedicated to leather goods, which will coexist with the textile offer and to that of Apparel Sourcing, Shawls & Scarves, Denim and Avantex.

The trade show, which takes place from 13 to 15 July in Munich, has dedicated a separated space to footwear collections in the upcoming edition. International brands like Lanvin, Levi’s and Moschino will participate, among others.

Ethical Fashion Show and Greenshowroom, both owned by Messe Frankfurt, will maintain their current structure in July, but from January 2019 onwards they will take place as a single trade show.

The company, which controls the London-based fashion fair, has reached a conditional deal with ITE Group, who already organizes Scoop, Jacket Required and Moda fairs’ in the UK.

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