SleepTech November-December 2022

Kar-As: It is indispensable
to organize the IBIA EXPO
every year
Mr. Önder, conveying his
evaluations of the IBIA
EXPO 2022 Fair to the
Sleep Tech magazine,
emphasized that the fair
was organized after the
pandemic and that the
sector eased in this sense.
Aslan also talked about
the quality of the audience;
said “The fair is going very
well. After the pandemic,
there was a lot of demand
for the fair. Because many
fair organizations could not
take place during the pandemic
period. The organization of the IBIA EXPO 2022 Fair
is also important in this sense. The fair became a fair with
many quality participants and serious buyers. There was
a serious crowd on the first and second days. I was very
pleased to see the quality of the masses, their capacities,
the demands in the mattress industry and the potential
in Turkey. Currently, there is a huge potential in Turkey in
terms of the sector. When we consider the world crises
such as war, occurred after the pandemic, pandemic and
container crises Turkey has a very critical importance. That
many companies gathered and united under single roof
and realize this organization by evaluating this type of fairs
became a wonderful situation for our sector.”
Önder Aslan, touching on the technical details about the
fair, gave the following statements on the subject; “The
region where the fairground is located is in the center of Istanbul
and is a convenient area in terms of transportation.
The visitors coming to the fair on the first and second days
were export customers. As of the third day, we see that
a little more domestic customers dominate. I think it will
be the same tomorrow. In general, we are very satisfied,
it goes very well. I think that organizing the fair every year
has become indispensable for our industry.”
Kırayteks: Buyers from all
over the world came to
IBIA EXPO
Kırayoğlu, touching on that the
fair attracts serious visitors even
though it is a sectoral fair in his
evaluation, explained his thoughts
with the following sentences; “Although
the IBIA Fair is held for the
first time and is a specific fair, there
is a serious crowd here. In general,
large crowds are not expected at
sectoral fairs. More key players
and key customers are expected
in such fairs. But seriously, buyers
came from all over the world.
Among them, there are visitors that we know very well in
the sector and that we do not know at all. We understand
from this that both IBIA and BİFAŞ have done a preliminary
study on this and they have carried out the preliminary
preparations for the fair very well. We are very pleased”
Kesimoğlu: IBIA EXPO Fair is
a perfect organization
Kesinoğlu, saying that visitors
will be able to find all kinds of
mattress-related component
products at the fair, described
the organization as perfect.
Kesimoğlu, adding they had a
very successful fair, said in his
interview; “As Kesimoğlu Tekstil
and İpekçe Home brand, we
are mainly engaged in home
textiles, and as you know,
IBIA is an fair focused on the
mattress industry. The number
of foreign visitors in this fair,
which consists of 3 halls in total,
is quite high. There are many companies, large and small,
that want to supply all kinds of components related to the
mattress from home and abroad. We also participated
in the fair with home textiles. We are satisfied as follows;
every mattress company also has retail stores. We also
sell many products from bed linen to carpet, blanket to
bathrobe. And since mattress companies also have retail
stores, we also benefited from these. The high number
of foreign visitors made us very happy. We had a very
successful fair. The organization was truly flawless. Thank
you very much.”
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