The facility was state of the art, and no doubt about it.
Beautiful landscape, well organized halls and excellent peripheral
infrastructure within the premises. The venue is created for international
exhibitions and for the first time, any textile machinery fair organized in India looked like an international one in its true sense. Only black spot in the entire
show was a little management issue there. All halls did not have the same setup
(hall 4) and within the halls, all floors did not have same amount of visitors.
Also, there were issues of duplicate stand numbers. But overall the show was
well organized and with a new trend, new lessons are to be learnt. I sincerely
believe that ITME society will surely put a more improved show next time."
When probed on question, whether India ITME matched their
expectations as an opportunity to meet prospective buyers, he responded in
following way "The exhibition provided a very good platform for
interacting with our existing customers and new potential customers as well. We
had a very good chance of showing our new developments and also got feedback on
future requirements from the user industry. We were able to bag some small
orders, based on which we are expecting larger orders from same group of
customers."
Sultex - ITEMA Weaving India Pvt. Ltd
Fibre2fashion got feedback from Mr. Manoj Sankhe, Manager
- Marketing & Product (Sultex - ITEMA Weaving India Pvt. Ltd).
According to Mr. Sankhe amenities in the show were good and
well maintained. Although numbers of visitors were not at par with previous
ITME exhibitions due to various reasons and geographical location is one of
them.
Although Mr. Sankhe restrained himself in divulging any
information on prospective business leads earned from this show and said they
are still working on their earnings at ITME-08 and remaining optimistic about end
results of the show he said hopefully their earning calculations will convert
to good business.
R. B. Electronic & Engineering Pvt Ltd.
Mr. J. J. Parekh Vice President- Sales of R. B. Electronic
& Engineering Pvt Ltd. was quite happy with response they got from India ITME - 2008. Commenting
on visitors he said "In spite of global slow down and financial crises in
the world in general and textile and garment industry, in particular, we had
around 500 visitors out of which around 200 were active inquiries and rest were
for their future needs that was satisfactory for us."
Although he didn't seemed quite happy with other amenities
of the show and expressed his views in following words "In terms of
Facilities and other criteria there were some grey areas but considering ITME
India was first time at Bangalore we under stand their difficulties and hope
next time around things will be better."
