TAIPEI, Taiwan--()--Among all Taipei Trade Shows, Giftionery Taipei stands out with its unique character and emphasis upon vividly mirroring culture throughout its many international pavilions, seminars and countless products.
This year’s Giftionery Taipei in its 65th year blossoms April 21st to April 24th at TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 with a record 430 exhibitors from 12 countries. They bring with them a rich selection displayed across 571 booths.
This show unfolds in six theme areas, namely: General Gifts, Stationery, Tech & Trendy, Living Variety, Home Styling, Natural Essence, Holiday & Party and the Trade Media. These displays are set off by such feature events as the Most Popular Products Award and targeted international seminars led by experts from famous overseas institutes and companies.
Staging the finest in creativity & innovation!
This year’s Giftionery Taipei is turning around its record size to help pioneer fresh theme areas that spotlight creative living, home aesthetics, natural essences, and festival and party ideas. It’s warming up to be the best gift hub for the hottest items on the market. This show opens a whole new menu, a fresh approach on everything form modern living, the environment (EcoFriendly products), and festival & party ideas. What’s more Giftionery Taipei features a full slate of activities to better interface buyers with exhibitors.
Living Variety Area of practicability & LOHAS
The joy of life & living is reflected in the Living Area at Giftionery Taipei. Its selection embraces a wide selection of products packed with creative flair and health concerns that bring a flair for living, health, furnishings and creative products. Furnishings compose a vital part of the Living Variety Area. Fwu Mau produces multi-use economical budget-friendly furniture for interior design. And Geway specializes in products that match most home and office needs.
Cute cultural and creative flourishes are popular among the young. And that has brought La Fantasier to transform hum-drum sockets into charming icons of interior décor. Meanwhile Uni-Paragon, renowned for its towel cakes, are now back exhibiting their newly-developed cake shopping bags.
Taiwan + Electronics = THE BEST
The Tech & Trendy Area lives up to its reputation by plugging in Taiwan’s largest industry – electronics. Treck this area to discover daily products that have been re-made with craftily embedded hi tech. That’s best seen in the products like the LED Magical Lamp from Vega Lighting Technologies Corp., Smartphone Router from AXIM Communications Inc, Drinkin’ Duck from Taiwan Oh Yeah Technology, Dream Jet Printer from ColorTEC Int’l Corp., USB Flash Drive from Relleek Electronics, which are all in the Electronic Gifts Area. This is where you can see IT’s at work in LED light banners and USB memory sticks pulsing with colorful liquids! Source through a vast cosmos of innovative and functional gadgets perfect for your market!
Giftionery opens a world of contacts
With 56 overseas trade offices, TAITRA opens a global network of trade contacts and for this event it has flown in the best importers, wholesalers and retailers. These buyers are now on the showground sourcing for items for Japan, Singapore, the Russian Federation, Thailand, the USA, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Egypt, France, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Algeria, China and Hong Kong.
Among them are several key buyers with annual business revenues exceeding USD 6 billion, including KIOHARA; revenue exceeding USD 120 million including OOJITZ KYUSHU from Japan, PANDA COOP from Bulgaria and CROXLEY STATIONERY from New Zealand.
Other VIP buyers include KGL INTERNATIONAL from Dubai, UNITED STATIONERY GROUP AD from Bulgaria, WH SMITH from Hong Kong, CHAMIX IMP E EXP LTDA from Brazil, Bong-A Stationery from Guangzhou PRC and BUFFALO-ORIGINAL from Toronto, Canada. With them come more than 600 other pre-registered buyers.
Media Spotlights Giftionery Taipei 2011!
The trade media world is also here ever-hungry for new scoops on new products, concepts and people. They include a host of great writers from such trade media as SELECT from Japan, the US-based Giftware News, India’s Gifts & Accessories and scores of domestic media.
Special Events
- The Grand Fu-Dai Giveaway
The first 700 overseas buyers visiting the show will receive a “Fu Dai” or “Bag of happiness and good fortune”. In this bag you will find selected gifts sponsored by outstanding exhibitors at Giftionery Taipei.
Come unwrap your own treasure with a smile!
- Most Popular Product Contest
More than 120 new products are bidding for the Most Popular Product Award of Giftionery Taipei 2011! Votes will be cast on-line before the show and on-site during the show. In addition those who cast votes get a chance to win air tickets to Asian destinations.
- Insider Seminars on International Design Trend & Retail Expansion
This seminar aims to help exhibitors sell products and catch the market trends of the season. Speakers include Ronnie Kattan from Canada (Generate Design Co.), Elaine Tam from UK (WGSN), Lasse Folt from Sweden (Design Torget) and Paul Chien (Working House/Taiwan).
Giftionery Taipei provides an excellent platform for gift and stationery manufacturers to expand business networks, sign on partners and get orders. So unwrap your best smile today at Giftionery Taipei.
- Exchange one relevant business card for your visitor’s pass (Free for domestic and international professionals)
- Show open 9:30AM to 6PM daily from April 21 to 24 and 9:30AM to 4PM on April 24th, the last day.
- Show opened to public on 23rd and 24th
- Solicitation, photographing, and videotaping are prohibited on the showground.
- Children younger than 12 years old are not allowed into venue.
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