VENDEXPO MOSCOW 2009
International vending exhibition
The main Russian vending exhibition VendExpo-2009 finished its work on March 06, 2009 in CEC “Expocentr”.
“VendExpo – Vending technologies of XXI century” is an annual exhibition project for the companies dealing with equipment for program trading and automated services. This show is meant for businessmen, who treat Vending as a means to cultivate their own activity.
The key business event of the exhibition attracted huge quantity of specialists became the forum “Vending as business development concept in the modern economic conditions”. Public speaking of European Vending Association EVA General Director C. Piana and President of Italian vending Association CONFIDA V. Scrina aroused attendees’ big interest. Training “Creation of vending network. Key insight”, round table “Vending legal regulation” and other practical seminars excited such valid interest so attendees of the forum wrote down the notes in their copy-books as if they were obedient students on the lecture. Those who wished to take part in the forum were too many persons so there were even lack of chairs in the conference-hall and the quantity of the attendees’ questions grew out of the forum rules. Totally there were more than 600 specialists participated in the Forum.
In the framework of the Business activity there were held special meetings of key players of vending market with the representatives of Regional business area and the executive branch with the aim of cooperation ways definition and distribution of vending technologies into the regions.
The professional competition «Best Vending Beverage» organized in cooperation with RusTeaCoffee Association was held for the first time in Russia. The judges of the contest consisted of the leading Russian coffee tasters.
The winner of the contest 2009 in the category “Beverages of the big city” (floor-standing vending machines) in nomination “Natural coffee-espresso” became Zavod Vendingovogo Oborudovaniya and the beverage of SEVEN Group became the best in the nomination “Natural coffee-cappuccino”. The coffee-espresso made by ASSORTI and cappuccino made by Zavod Vendingovogo Oborudovaniya were acknowledges the best among the instant coffee. The winner in the nomination “Hot Chocolate” is the beverage of ASSORTI Company.
The winner of the category “Beverages of business communication” (Table Top vending machines) and all the three nominations: “Natural coffee-espresso”, “Natural coffee-cappuccino” and “Hot Chocolate” is the SIBA-Vending Group.
There were more than 60 companies from 8 countries (Belgium, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Canada, Poland, United Kingdom and Russia). Total space of the exhibition was about 3000 sq. m.
More than 2500 visitors from 57 regions of Russia were on the exhibition. Most of them were specialists and plants’ top managers. The main vending exhibition of Russia attracted foreign visitors; big interest – representatives of 20 countries became our guests. Most of the exhibition participants’ are fully satisfied by the composition, quantity and professional level of the visitors (on the average there were about 100 visitors on each stand). It approves once again that Vending in modern conditions is the perspective way of business development.
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