This arena provides a unique opportunity to forge new contacts, cultivate existing customers, meet others from the trade, exchange experience, find new ideas and learn. The opportunities are yours!

Frequency
Staged twice a year - spring show in January, autumn show in August.
Held for the first time in 1982.

Opening hours
Thursday-Friday    09.00-19.00
Saturday-Sunday  10.00-17.00

Size
14-15 500 sq.m net exhibition space spread over three halls. All exhibitors on the same level.

Product sections
HAll A - hobby, cards, stationery, toys
Hall B - clothing, jewellery, accessories, home textiles
Hall C - mix of interior products
Hall D - mix of interior products, florist articles, souvenirs, crafts

About the exhibitors
350-400 exhibitors from a number of countries, with the bulk drawn from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

About the visitors
• 10-14 000 visitors from the whole Norwegian gift and interior trade, as well as architects, designers and others related to the business. The show is also visited by buyers from abroad, primarily Sweden and Denmark.

Figures from the January event:
• visitors with decision-making authority rose by 12.5 per cent
• visitors expecting to make purchases at the show rose by 17.6 per cent
• 83 per cent of visitors said they would visit the autumn event
• average length of visit rose from 3.92 hours in 2002 to 4.36 hours.

Trade journal Gave & Interiør/exhibition catalogue
The Gave & Interiør trade journal appears six times a year, including two issues which contain the exhibition catalogue. This publication is distributed to almost 5 000 subscriber shops, and is an important tool for buyers before, during and after each show.

Seminars
Trend seminars are organised during the show with the Pej group/Scandinavian Trend Institute. Free entry for both exhibitors and visitors.


Organiser
Norway Trade Fairs

Facts and numbers from Gift and interior' >>