interpack 2011
interpack 2011 closes as one of the most successful events in the 53-year history of the world’s most important trade fair for the packaging sector and related processing industries. This was the unanimous sentiment among the 2,700 exhibitors from 60 nations in all of the 19 fully booked halls of the Düsseldorf trade fair centre on May 2011.
Exhibitors at interpack 2011 were in excellent spirits and reported having a host of excellent meetings with high-calibre visitors. Many had approached companies with specific orders, they said, and extremely lucrative post-fair business was expected. Among them were a particularly large number of decision-makers from top management. “At our stand, there was huge interest in our products. We generated 30 per cent more contacts than in 2008, including members of top management, brand manufacturers and many potential new customers. The message from numerous other exhibitors has been much the...