Review the Domotechnica,the most important home appliances industry exhibition
2008-07-31

Cologne, Located in western Germany, with 970,000 population, is famous for two things: One is the landmark building of the city, Cologne Cathedra. This Gothic-style building was built in 1880, with a history of 632 years; another is the city's landmark product, the Cologne expositions with the existing 43 major exhibitions, including the household electrical appliances exhibition organized in 1974. The two masterpieces stand on the side of Rhine passing through Koln. About the exhibition£º

Founded in 1974 the International Household Appliances Exhibition (domotechnica 2008) is the world's most influential white goods exhibition. The International Household Appliances Exhibition, founded in 1974, is the world most influential white goods exhibition. The exhibition was held in Cologne again from 2006. The cycle is a two year session, exclusive hosted by the Cologne International Exhibition Co. Ltd. Since 2006, Cologne becomes the only permanent venue for the international exhibition of household appliances. The Home Tech in Berlin, originally scheduled for early March 2006, will no longer be held. The exhibition will be combine the exhibitors and the visitors of Berlin Expo and Cologne home appliance Exhibition, to show the contemporary world most famous home appliances and kitchen supplies (the exhibition includes large and small household appliances and spare parts, etc.). It is an important place where the industry people and consumers will gather. Wolfgang. Kranz said, “This exhibition shows a high degree of internationalization, bringing more opportunities for the exhibitors while the various types of products for the visitors. As an international exhibition, domotechnica has already covered all the areas of the home appliances industry. It’s the exhibitors with satisfaction, the good business climate, large numbers of new technologies that makes domotechnica a success. Review the previous years: Domotechnica 2001 The Domotechnica was held in German during 2001 March 7-10. The exhibition area covered 185,000 square meters. The 14 Hall of 10 was opened in Cologne International Exhibition Center. The 10 large exhibition halls were divided into four parts, large appliances, small appliances, kitchen and components. There are 1565 enterprise participations from 59 national and the local. 80 percent of exhibitors are not from Germany. The number of exhibitors from Italy, which climbed to 339, is the largest in the participating countries. There are 121 exhibitors from China, accounting for 7.8 percent. Chinese enterprises occupied an area of 4,062 square meters. Another 103 came from Hong Kong, China, covering an area of 2,186 square meters, 69 from China Taiwan, 498 square meters. HomeTech Berlin 2002

HomeTech Berlin, the world largest white goods exhibition in 2002, was hosted during February 27 ~Mar. 3 by the European household goods manufacturers Committee (CECED) for the first time. Another, this exhibition is a continuation of the ComforTech organized in Paris. 26 of 22 halls were used, which covered an area of 90,000 square meters. There are more than 720 large and small home appliances, spare parts manufacturers, and other related businesses from 41 countries. Looking from the nationality of the exhibitors, 75% were not from Germany. Italy has 185 enterprises which made it become the biggest participant. The mainland of China has 132 exhibitors, occupied 2nd, surpassing Germany. It covered an area of over 5,000 square meters. China Household Electrical Appliances Association and China Light Industry foreign economic and technological cooperation jointly organized a big delegation to go to Germany to attend this home appliance grand meeting, and has completed the task successfully. Domotechnica 2004

This exhibition held in 2004 was the first time presenting after the merge of these two big international white home appliance exhibition, Cologne exhibition and Berlin exhibition. The display area of domotechnica 2004 Cologne is about 90,000 square meters. There were 1323 exhibiting companies from 53 countries. Nearly 30,000 professional businessmen all over the world visited the exhibition for procurement. But some household appliances giants have not appeared. The reason might be the focus of the exhibition is different with the launch of their new products. As a result, medium-sized exhibitors then became the focus of attention. In this year, foreign exhibitors came from 53 countries, accounting for 75 percent of the number of exhibitors. Thus the international atmosphere of the exhibition is very strong. 405 firms were from the mainland of China, 108 from Hong Kong, 73 from Taiwan. Domotechnica 2006

February 2006, domotechnica — the International Trade Fair for Household Appliances — returned to Cologne. In the 80,000-square-meter exhibition area, 1041 exhibitor from more than 40 countries came to Cologne. 91 exhibitors were from Germany, and 902 exhibitors from foreign countries. Non-native Germany viewers accounted for 74 percent of the visitors. As the proportion of foreign audiences is extremely high, the status of domotechnica as the most important home appliances industry exhibition in the world is unshakable. Domotechnica 2008

 The international trade fair for household appliances, domotechnica 2008, took place in Cologne between the 18th and 21st February. Three big newly set up exhibition region “The domo- high-quality goods area”, “the domo- whole world resources” and “the domo- spare parts” s replaced for original “the white goods, the small home appliances”. The new concept of the show clearly reflects the globalization of world manufacturing, which will be represented by over 600 suppliers from around the globe, from countries such as New Zealand, Russia, Egypt, Turkey and the Far East.