FIAAP Asia 2016 - The only specialist trade show to offer complete coverage of the Asian/Pacific market for ingredients and additives used in the production of animal feeds, petfood and aquafeed.
VICTAM Asia 2016 - Asia Pacifics premier event for the animal & aquatic feed, petfood and biomass technology.
GRAPAS Asia 2016 - South East Asia's premier event for the flour milling, noodle production and grain & rice processing industries.
The Exhibition will be held at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC). 88 Bangna-Trad Road (Km.1), Bangna, Bangkok 10260, Thailand
FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS ASIA 2014- POST SHOW REPORT-
This was the second time that FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia had been held in BITEC and as usual quality was the word being used to describe the shows and conferences. The visitors described the exhibits as high quality. The exhibitors said the same for the visitors and the conference delegates also confirmed the quality of the papers presented at the conferences.
The exhibitions were held within Halls 103 and 104 of BITEC (The Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre), Bangkok, Thailand.
There were in all 219 exhibitors and they came from 29 different countries, the net exhibition floor area was almost 16% larger than the 2012 show and there were also more exhibiting companies than in 2012 when there had been 166 exhibitors.
The show space/area was fully booked, and there were even companies on the list waiting for a possibility to exhibit.
As always the exhibitors were asked to complete a survey in order to assess the event and also to assist us as the organizers.
Just over 93% of the exhibitors who completed the survey (99 so far) stated that they would exhibit again at the event in 2016.
When asked a number of questions to score the general organization of the event, with 10 being the maximum, the highest was an impressive 8.5 average, the lowest was 7.4, except for the Wi-Fi supplied by the venue, this was unfortunately 4.8. We have, once again, expressed our concerns to the BITEC management about this and made it clear that it is unacceptable.
Over the three days of the exhibition there were 6134* visitors to the shows; 28% were from outside Thailand, a slight decrease on the 6198 visitors which attended the 2012 event. This is not surprising as there was civil unrest in Thailand and especially Bangkok, although this unrest was in small areas which were well away from BITEC, the hotels and the business areas. The demonstrations had received negative news coverage all over the world and especially in Asia. Both Indonesia and India held general elections during the event, and we understood that potential visitors decided not to fly owing to the unfortunate disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines plane. All of these had an adverse affect on the number of visitors to the event and especially foreigners and if none of these had happened then the number of visitors to the shows and conferences would have certainly been higher.
*The visitor figures have been independently audited by an UFI approved auditor that was appointed by TCEB (Thai Convention & Exhibition Bureau).
No exhibitor cancelled or even asked to cancel their participation.
Almost 30% of the visitors to the exhibitions were of director level. Many had travelled from all over South & South East Asia. In fact there were visitors from 63 countries.
Almost 92% of the visitors intend to visit the shows again in 2016.
The majority of the visitors, as you would expect, came from the animal feed, aquafeed and dry petfood production sectors. However there was a marked increase in the number of visitors from rice and flour millers, grain processors, noodle, breakfast cereal and snack producers.