Over 9300 visitors at the 3rd Edition of SOUTHPACK-2007 co-located with PHARMAPACK-2007 ensured a brilliant conclusion to the largest packaging exhibition to be ever organized in South India.
121 Exhibitors from across 7 countries showcased the widest variety of packaging machinery, material,
products and solutions in floor space in excess of 45,000 sq.ft at the Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India from the 27-29 July 2007.
Realising the importance that packaging plays in the pharmaceutical industry, co-located with SOUTHPACK-2007 was PHARMAPACK-2007, India’s first dedicated
event on pharmaceutical packaging.
While over 90% of the trade visitors were from India, around 9% came from countries such as Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Africa. The highlight of this year’s event was the quality of visitors. Senior Management representing food, confectionery, bakery, processed food, pharmaceutical, dairy & meat, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage, cosmetics and toiletries, garments and textiles, fisheries visited the Southpack-2007 and Pharmapack-2007.
Exhibitors Delighted
The main feature of this years’ edition was that the exhibitors as well as the visitors found the event to be very rewarding. “Absolutely brilliant” was the unanimous opinion amongst the exhibitors and the visitors.
SOUTHPACK, since its inception in 2000 has been a major marketing platform, used by companies to the explore the highly lucrative markets in South India. Exhibitors used the SOUTHPACK-2007 and PHARMAPACK-2007 to
A Grand Success
launch new products, create awareness and expanding their customer base.
As high as 88% of the exhibitors described their participation as “Extremely Rewarding” and said that they met their major target groups at Southpack-2007 and Pharmapack-2007. Most of them mentioned of the new business contacts they made and several of .
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the exhibitors also informed of having sold their machinery off their booth. This opinion was reinforced by a neutral survey of exhibitors on the last day of
the show.
Commenting on the huge success of the event, Ashok Neelkant, Managing Director, Intel Trade Fairs & Expositions Pvt. Ltd. said “We realised in 2000 the huge potential that South India hold for the packaging industry and the huge success of this years’ edition has proved that this is the most dynamic markets in India today growing at around 22% per annum. It is.
121 Exhibitors from across
7 countries and 9000+ high profile visitors ensured the event was a grand success
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an ever evolving market, growing everyday. The potential is huge in the coming years”
Trade visitors extremely satisfied
The exhibition was also credited with certain remarkable verdicts from the trade visitors on the products and contact opportunities offered. As in the past years, 95% of the visitors were satisfied or very satisfied with the event. The visitors came to the show to find efficient and cost effective packaging solutions and the exhibitors were successful in showing them faster, finer and more efficient ways of packing. Many of the visitors came with immediate buying requirement. The exhibitors also fulfilled the operators’ pressing wish to simplify maintenance and cleaning and thus minimize the unnecessary costs. Southpack-2007 and Pharmapack-2007 clearly showed that the exhibitors have met the customers’ requirement for faster and safer maintenance, as unproductive time particularly costs money in all areas. This means the exhibition duo was fully in line with the trend towards the increasing effective use of resources and the fast and safe manufacture of products with a consistently high quality level.
The visitors came from various industries. Prominent among these were food,
confectionery, bakery, processed food, pharmaceutical, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage, cosmetics and toiletries, garments & textiles, fisheries. Most of the trade visitors were involved in procurement decisions.
A survey of visitors
revealed that they came to the show to gather information on newer packaging technologies, to make contact with new suppliers, to renew contact with their existing suppliers and many to exchange views with their industry colleagues.
Next Edition : 40% Bigger & Better
The 4th Edition of SOUTHPACK-2008 with PHARMAPACK-2008 and PackagePrint Expo 2008 will be organized in floor space in excess of 63,000
sq. ft., 40% bigger than the previous edition. The event will be organized in Hall 2 & 3 of the Chennai Trade Centre from 27 – 29 June 2008.
Exhibitor Comments...
Excellent exhibition. I congratulate the organizers for putting up such a good show. We would like to have a long-term association with them.
Mr. Manoj Kumar, Country Manager, Autonics Corporation, Korea
Good customers. Very neat and clean show. We have generated a lot of enquiries and we will do well.
Mr. Ashish Meghani, Managing Director, Wraptech Machines Pvt. Ltd., India
It has been a very good exhibition. We have had customers from across India and we hope to convert many of them. We have able to meet many new clients.
Mr. Rinesh Kumar, Marketing Manager, Heat & Control (South Asia) Pvt. Ltd. India
The organizers have done a good job for us. We have got many leads and the only thing is to follow-up on these leads and gets some sales.
Mr. Dale Lapakko, Banner Enginnering Corpn., USA
This is the second time that we are exhibiting at the Southpack and the response has been very good for us. We met our existing clients as well as several new clients.
Mr. Harsh Kumar, Marcom, Imaje India Pvt. Ltd., India
The show was excellent. We got good quality customers who visited us and given us good prospective leads. We have got good business with Southpack.
Mr. Anthony D'souza, General ManagerMarketing, Pakona Engineers India Pvt. Ltd., India
Very good exhibition. We could meet all the people we wanted to meet.
Mr. Vivek Chinoy, Marketing Director, Electronic Devices, India
The show was fantastic and the response for us was very good.
Mr. Satish Ansingker, Vice President-Marketing, B&R Industrial Automation Pvt. Ltd., India
Great show. We are extremely delighted with the response as we have been able to sell most of the machines exhibited at our stand. This has been a very good opening for us as we recently started our office in Chennai.
Mr. S. Jayakumar, Managing Director, Mahavir Finepack Systems Pvt. Ltd., India
We displayed our entire range of machinery for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage industry and response has been very good especially from the food and beverage sector.
Mr. Abdul Nazer, Regional Sales Manager, Parle Tablet Tools Pvt. Ltd., India
The response was very good and we generated a number of quality leads.
Mr. Takayasu Yamada, Managing Director, Ishida Co., Limited, Japan
Very good response. We have sold a machine at this show and have generated quality enquiries.
Mr. Ajay Gadgil, AGM Sales, Mr. Precision Gears Limited, India
We were showing our thermoforming machine at the show and I am happy to say that we could sell 2 machines at the show. I am happy man going from here.
Mr. V. Krishnan, Director, Spheretech Packaging Pvt. Ltd., India
A great show. We have good number of quality leads and booked as many as 12 machines at our stand.
Mr. Vinay Dave, Regional Sales Manager, Harikrushna Technocrats Ltd., India
