Exhibitors Report Top Quality Visitors And Sales Orders In The Millions At Fespa Africa 2019
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FESPA Africa 2019 and Sign Africa 2019 was held at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The exhibition attracted 6,850 visitors, with 5,923 unique visitors and 927 revisits and was sponsored by Platinum sponsor Roland.
Visitors took part in a range of educational features, including Screen printing with Charlie Taublieb, who has been in the screen printing industry since 1976, on the Rexx Screen & Digital Supplies stand; a Textile print experience with free demonstrations by local experts on T-shirts and textile items with speciality printing techniques; CorelDRAW workshops, the Speed Wrap Challenge and hot new product tours, which showed expo visitors product highlights on various stands.
Exhibitors had positive feedback about the event, Adrian Wolman from Sign-Tronic commented: “The show was fantastic! We had an amazing response with the launch of our 3D Fusion letter printer, and swissQprint Karibu roll to roll at 200 square meters an hour – both a game changer – as well as R50 million worth of sales.
Printing with our UV P ink, which was also showcased, has revolutionised printing on uncoated textiles, vinyl, PVC, paper, ABS, Correx, Dibond and much more.”
Niki Long from Graphix Supply World said: “It was a great show for us with loads of enquires and over R20 million in sales. The expo definitely exceeded our expectations.”
William Gibson from Falcon SA commented: “We really enjoyed the expo, it was a good show. I especially liked the hot new product tour.”
Jithoo Daya from Maxsigns said: “We had much better engagement with visitors this year, who liked our new products.”.
Nardus Mouton from Gencotech commented: ‘It was a very good show for us with lots of positive leads. The visitors were particularly interested in our new products. The expo is always a positive experience for us.”
Vic Anderson from Clip-Tite said, ‘The show was a good opportunity to make contact with existing customers.’
