FIAAP VICTAM GRAPAS Asia 2012 outcome

FIAAP, VICTAM and GRAPAS Asia 2012 provided the meeting place for South & South East Asia’s feed and grain industries as 1000s of senior industry executives from this important and influential region visited the largest feed and grain event ever held in Asia.

The event attracted more visitors than in 2010, in all 6198 - an increase of over 10%. 

"The GRAPAS show, the event for grain processing, rice and flour milling, (and organised by the publishers of The Global Miller, IMD and GFMT magazine), brought in new visitors and almost 48% of all the visitors were interested in the GRAPAS exhibitors," say the show organisers.

This was also seen in the number of delegates attending the numerous technical conferences and seminars that were held during the show days, 15, 16 & 17 February.

Once again 'quality' was the word used to describe the event; The visitors described the exhibits as high quality, the exhibitors said the same for the visitors and delegates also confirmed the quality of the conferences.

Over one third of ALL visitors to the exhibitions were of director level, again demonstrating the high level of the quality and status of the visitors. Many had travelled from all over South & South East Asia. In fact there were visitors from 73 countries.

The exhibitions co-located with the VICTAM show also proved popular.

The exhibitions, which were 40% larger in area and had more exhibitors than the last shows in 2010, provided the perfect platform to launch new products and services to the market. Almost 30 new products were on show. Some of these were awarded the highly coveted “Innovations Awards”. The winners are as follows: 

• The FIAAP Animal Nutrition Award – Dr. Eckel GMBH
• The Aquafeed Innovation Award – Wenger Manufacturing Inc.
• The 2012 GRAPAS Award for Milling – FOSS

Further information on these and the runners up can be found here.

Visitors and exhibitors all agreed that the new home of the event, BITEC was excellent. 95% of the exhibitors stated that they will exhibit again in 2014. Of the visitors also 95% said that they would come again in 2014. The show organizers, Victam International BV, have therefore announced that their next event will be held again at BITEC. 

Unfortunately the exhibition halls were not available in February and March 2014 so for just that year they will be held in April. This will enable the event to avoid Chinese New Year and local public holidays. In 2016 the event will return in February/early March.

Exhibitor quotes:

• FOSS: “In all a good exhibition which we will be happy to attend again in 2014.” Silos Cordoba: “In general everything was good. The organisation, the companies who attend Victam, everything.”
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• Aqua Culture Asia Pacific: “The show was well attended. It was neither too massive nor small which allowed us to interact well with our clients and make new contacts. The location of our booth was good too. Thank you for a well organised event.”
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• Wenger: “Great show. We really will be able to tell in the months to come. Keep up the good work.”

Some quotes from visitors:

• “I hope FIAAP/VICTAM/GRAPAS will happen again, I would like it every year.”
• “It was well organised. Thanks to you all.”
• “I enjoyed visiting the exhibition. It was well organised and managed. I believe the next one will be even better.”

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