Magazine: Four trade fairs in one

Promotion – business communication, Printexpo – printing industry and digital technology, Budatranspack – packaging industry and logistics and Service Expo – business services and solutions: 200 exhibitors showed what they had to offer to 8,000 visitors on 9-11 November 2011 in Hungexpo’s pavilion ‘G’ and in the EU-centre.

Trade magazin was also present, in cooperation with POPAI Hungary Association. At our stand we presented the category winner displays of the Hungarian POPAI Awards POP competition, which will represent Hungary at GlobalShop in Las Vegas next February. Marin’s stand was built next to us, Andrea Keresztesi and Viktor Galgóczi created a spectacular space full of POP tools there. Oskar Ortynski, the managing director for Central Europe and sales director Thomasz Chaber were also at the stand, answering questions and presenting POP tools tirelessly. At the Stand of Associations (shared by Civilkomp, Decor Association, Direct Marketing Association, Association of Hungarian Event Organisers and Service Providers, Association of Hungarian Communication Agencies) we also found the team of Hungarian Sign. From the Decor Association secretary Eszter Sárkics and regional representative Roberta Faltis told us that together with Hungexpo they organised the Mannequin Dressing-Packaging competition. There were 20 entries and competitors had one and a half day to complete their works, using the material provided by exhibiting companies. A student from the Budapest University of Technology, Ágnes Szekeres won the first prize – she used the PE foam of Reményi Packaging Technology. On the second day the Conference of Decorator Schools took place and on the same day the award ceremony of the HUNGAROPACK packaging competition was also held. On 3-16 may 2012 the world-famous Drupa (World Market Print Media, Publishing&Converting) exhibition will be held in Düsseldorf. As a preparation for the event, BD-Expo – the representative of Messe Düsselfdorf in Hungary – cooperated with the Technical Association of Hungarian Paper and Printing Industry in organising the collective presence of 10 participants at Printexpo. Sándor Pesti, the president of the association that unites 140 firms and more than 1,000 private individuals told Trade magazin that they organised the travel of nearly 400 Hungarian visitors to Drupa.