Heimtextil, a world-famous brand for the textile market players.
Today, the international trade fair Heimtextil Russia presents home textiles and fabrics for interior design and is the Russia"s largest specialized show in its segment. The show is a b2b event, i.e. the marketing program is aimed at attracting business attendees only: wholesale and retail trade representatives, contract market (HoReCa) players, designers and architects.
In 2007, was launched a buyers program aimed at increasing the number of business attendees from certain regions of Russia and CIS countries.
For its participants, Heimtextil Russia is a professional platform to present their products and services to more than 15,000 professionals in 4 exhibiting days, meet the existing clients, establish new business contacts and partnership relations and gain the fullest insight into novelties and developments in the home textiles market.
For its attendees, Heimtextil Russia is a unique platform to find and purchase textile products of the middle and upper price and quality segments from key manufacturers of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Greece, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, the UAE, India, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Taiwan, China and, certainly, Russia.
The show traditionally includes special events such as trend show, round tables, workshops where the industry professionals share experience, discuss the important areas of market development, define the first steps towards possible business partnership in the future.
Пресс-релиз выставки Heimtextil
10th anniversary edition of Heimtextil Russia is the meeting point of professionals from all over the world
13 856 professional visitors attended the 10th international trade fair for Home Textiles and Interior Furnishings Heimtextil Russia. 317 exhibitors from Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Russia, India, China, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, USA, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, France, Scotland, Switzerland presented their new products. The increase in the number of countries, growth of the exhibition space and visitors number is the sing that Heimtextil Russia is moving in the right direction and not only presents an ideal platform for the industry of home textiles, but is also regarded as a high-quality, effective and profitable tool for business development.
«Heimtextil Russia is a project that we are really proud of. The constantly fast pace of the exhibition growth, the highest professional level of exhibitors and visitors, keen interest of the key market players and specialized press towards the fair show that Heimtextil Russia is being developed in the right direction. We exert every effort to make Heimtextil Russia even more effective and productive platform for its clients. The hard-driving business program of the fair, professionally worked-out and realized advertising campaign, eladorated approach to the concept of the fair are the key to success. It is important to say that there are no minutaes for Messe Frankfurt RUS during the preparation for the fair and implementation of its projects» — sais Eugen Alles, general manager of Messe Frankfurt RUS. Heimtextil Russia is from the one hand a fair that helps to broaden the horizons of creative and designer ideas. It is a fair that helps to find new ideas, to bust stereotypes. Every person of most delecate and demanding taste can find something interesting at the fair. The newest tendencies in interior design were presented by Claudia Herke, European design studio bora.herke stilbüro. In addition to this the uludag exporters association presented its vision of the future trends which gave the visitors the opportunity ti compare different point of view.
The business program of the fair was extremely interesting and saturated.
International design and fashion expert Svetlana Begovatova presented the issues devoted to the tendencies of 2008-2010 in interior design, conceptual approach to interior design, international tendencies in in home fashion, up-to-date styles and color palettes. Sveltana also held seminars on Interior textile in fashion: colour, texture, pattern, finishings and made the review of collections from Italy, France, Japan and other countries. Such up-to-date topic as ecohouse was also touched upon. Svetlana spoke about projects, interiors, international experience of creating ecohomes. Ecotextile. Within the business program of the fair there were also organized various seminars and masterclasses. For instance, the company Dallary-Green Forest organized masterclass on Decorative Interior Textile. Capital-Consulting Interregional Holding invited the visitors to the seminar «Boosting sales». Christian Lundwall, the famous Swedish Architect and Designer, the author of interior design of such hotels as Rezidor Hotel Group and Best Western Premier, as well as Radisson SAS hotel that is being built in Moscow now, presented his seminar on the chain hotels design. Rogier van der Heide, lighting designer and head of Arup lighting company, author of numerous projects on architecrural and interior lighting of building all over the world, such as the lighting of Louis Voitton boutique which received the award «For perfection» from IALD in the category «trade centres» also presented his seminar.
Exhibitors’ and visitors’ comments
Dom. Hotel, Russia (visitor). Olga Tjurina, General manager.
«The fair is very impressive. It is very good that we don`t have to go abroad, for example to Europe, because we can see everything here. We provide all types of equipment for hotels, restaurants and homes. All our needs are fully reflected at the fair Heimtextil Russia»
Lady – Prima, Russia (buyer). Lubov Mishenko.
«We`ve had the intention to work with producers from Egypt. Finally we managed to find such producers. We have a very big enterprise with its own production, retail chain and warehouses. The fair is very good. It is very convenient to work with the meeting schedule developed within the Buyers Program. There is a great number of exhiobitors from various spheres at the fair. There are five business sectors in our company: benches, blinds, fabrics, ready-made home textile, fittings and service. We always visit the fair with great pleasure»
Kariguz, Russia (exhibitor). Marina Volkova, Head of Sales&Marketing department.
«It is a very interesting fair. It becomes better and better. It is obvious judging by the visitors we have at our stand. In the past the majority of visditors at our stand were our old customers. Now we have a lot of meeting with new customers, a lot od orders were made already at the fair. Next year we will definitely participate in the fair»
Peterburg Factory of home textile, Russia (buyer). Irina Vorotnikova.
«We come to Heimtextil Russia for a second time. This year the fair is even more interesting! The fair is very beautiful, there are a lot of decorative fabricts that we4 need. We have found what we were looking for. We liked the business program, the seminars were very interesting and substantial. We plan to visit the fair next year»
Laverna, Russia (exhibitor). Tatiana Chernykh, Commercial director of «Interior and wall papers» department.
«The trade fair makes headway, there are more visitors. Our impression of the fair is very positive. We will most likely book the stand for the fair in 2009 in advance»
Decolux, Russia (exhibitor). Irina Bogatova, Head of department. «We are pleased: clients come to our stand and we work with them! We have both old and new customers at our stand. We will definitely participate next year»
Intercot (Home Collection. Textile Industry), Egypt (exhibitor). Skopra Christina.
«it’s the first time we participate in Heimtextil Russia and we plan to participate the next year, too. We have got new contacts here at the Fair. Our visitors are competent both in textiles production and textile market. Most of them are retailers and shop owners»
HAKS Textiles, Greece (exhibitor). Konstantinos Sournopoulos.
«The Fair is a good experience for us and we are glad we’ve come here. The visitors we’ve met here are professional and the organization is good. We’ve got some promising contacts and think of participating next year»
Trussardi Home (Traval s.r.l.), Italy (exhibitor). Giorgio Travaini, Administrator
«We participate at Heimtextil Russia for the 2nd time. This year the Fair is even better than in in 2007 and we have more visitors from CIS countries and Russian regions. Russian market is interesting for us and we’ve found very promising contacts. We appreciate your efforts as the Fair Organizer and we almost sore we will be here next year».
Antilo Textil, Spain (exhibitor). Rafael Torro, Sales Manager.
«We liked the fair and the quality of visitors. Our impressions of the fair are very positive. We plan to exhibit next year»
Schlafgut, Germany (exhibitor). Christian Ulf Reschke, Sales and Marketing Representative
«The organization of the Fair is good. In 2009 we plan to be at Heimtextil Russia with our own booth. We’ve come here to find the agent in Russia and now we have it! It’s the most important thing»
LASA International, Portugal (exhibitor). Sandra Pinheiro
«This year our booth is bigger than last year. At Heimtextil Russia 2008 we have new clients and some clients we didn’t expect but they came. The Show went very well and we have potential for business here. We probably will come back next year because we are getting representation here»
Byron&Byron, UK (exhibitor). Orazio Gualtieri, founder.
«We were very happy with the quality of the visitors. You had very high level and we have many new contacts. Our visitors are happy to see us in Russia. It was a very positive experience. Next year we are planning to have a bigger stand and to be here with our dealers»
Детализация тематики выставки Heimtextil
Window decorations: curtains, sun-protection systems, accessories
furniture fabrics and leather
Bedroom: bed equipment, fittings, bed linen, blankets, pillows, mattresses
Bathroom: towels, bath mats and carpets, bath curtains, bathroom accessories
Kitchen: linen and non-linen table cloth, table decoration
Wallpapers and wall coverings
Textile flooring and carpets
International Trade Fair for Hometextiles, Floor Coverings and Interior Furnishings