FESPA has been forced to add another hall with an extra 5,000 square metres of space to cope with heavy demand from companies eager to take part in FESPA 2020 in Madrid, Spain.
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| Neil Felton, CEO FESPA |
“Our exhibitor base has been aware of our plans for 2020 for two years and the response from the vendor community to the Madrid dates and location has been extremely positive,” says FESPA CEO Neil Felton.
“During the recent Munich event we were inundated with requests for space in Madrid to the point where we closed the 2019 show with a virtually full floor plan for FESPA 2020. We have already received firm commitment from companies including Epson, M&R, Agfa, EFI, Avery Dennison and Durst for FESPA 2020 and we'd expect to have many more contracts in place in the coming weeks. Due to this high level of demand for space we have also expanded the floor plan from 44,800 to 50,200 sqm (gross), adding an extra hall.”
Felton says printers who visit the show see little overlap between FESPA 2020 – taking place at the IFEMA Exhibition Centre in Madrid from March 24-27 – and drupa 2020, the largest printing equipment exhibition in the world that’s being held Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany from June 16-26.
“Since 2017, FESPA Global Print Expo is on an annual cycle, but we make every effort to minimise the impact of clashes with other events in the sectors we represent. In 2020 we have scheduled FESPA in March (24-27) and the event will take place in Spain, increasing the accessibility to Southern European visitors and extending its appeal to global visitors from regions such as Latin America.
“The strong line-up of exhibitors is a significant draw for our visitor community and they see little overlap between FESPA and drupa. What they tell us is that FESPA is the key event for them as speciality printers. If their focus is on wide format printing, be it screen or digital, for signage and graphics, vehicle wrap, interior décor, or textile, then FESPA Global Print Expo remains the destination event,” Felton says.
"Over the last few years the FESPA show has established itself as a Global Print Expo by expanding the scope of geographies that visitors travel from. At our last FESPA Global Print Expo in 2018, we welcomed visitors from a record 142 countries, including a strong delegation from Australia and New Zealand, reinforcing our position as a global exhibition.
"It's not just our visitors that travel far and wide for our exhibitions, our exhibitors also travel from around the world to exhibit at the event, providing visitors access to companies that they might not have the opportunity to network with outside of their home country. By attending FESPA, visitors get access to the principal manufacturers, rather than the local offices or distributors of some of the major brands, who tend to feature more heavily at national events.”
