Blinds & Shutters - Issue 1/2024
As we begin 2024 there is some hope that the economy may be turning round. Interest rates look set to fall and we may have just about avoided recession. Will this mean that households will have more to spend on their homes? Let’s hope so. In the next few months the biggest show for the blinds and shutters industry is taking place in Germany. R+T promises to be a great place to see new products and trends for the industry, plus a chance to catch up with colleagues and buyers. It is well worth the hop over to the EU to see what is going on. Good luck and best wishes in 2024, I hope you have a successful year!
As we begin 2024 there is some hope that the economy may be turning round.
Interest rates look set to fall and we may have just about avoided recession. Will this mean that households will have more to spend on their homes? Let’s hope so.
In the next few months the biggest show for the blinds and shutters industry is taking place in Germany. R+T promises to be a great place to see new products and trends for the industry, plus a chance to catch up with colleagues and buyers. It is well worth the hop over to the EU to see what is going on.
Good luck and best wishes in 2024, I hope you have a successful year!
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MARKETING<br />
Sustainable focus<br />
Extensive<br />
accompanying<br />
programme at R+T<br />
<strong>2024</strong>/Focus on<br />
sustainability and<br />
energy efficiency<br />
R+T will open its doors again from 19 to 23<br />
February <strong>2024</strong>. Experts will finally meet<br />
one another again in Stuttgart in order to<br />
discover the latest products and services from the<br />
areas of roller shutters, doors, gates and sun<br />
shading systems live and in colour. The varied<br />
accompanying programme of R+T will also be an<br />
opportunity for trade visitors to extend their own<br />
technical knowledge and exchange information<br />
and ideas directly with industry experts.<br />
"The entire R+T team is really looking forward<br />
to this large industry get-together in Stuttgart!<br />
After this long period of time we can hardly wait<br />
to offer our visitors programme highlights which<br />
cover every field of interest," enthused Sebastian<br />
Schmid, Vice President of Messe Stuttgart. Special<br />
shows, forums and seminars will impart knowhow<br />
par excellence and provide information on<br />
trends and challenges in the industry. This edition<br />
of the trade fair will focus primarily on<br />
"sustainability". The motto of R+T <strong>2024</strong> will be:<br />
Create. Sustainable. Future. TogetheR+T. The<br />
contents of the accompanying programme are<br />
strongly oriented towards the main topic and will<br />
ensure that visitors will be purposefully able to<br />
extend their own technical knowledge in the areas<br />
of "sustainability" and "energy efficiency". "You can<br />
look forward to a wide range of innovative<br />
solutions and sustainable products from different<br />
areas, as well as to an extensive accompanying<br />
programme," said Sebastian Schmid as a foretaste<br />
of R+T <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
R+T Innovation Award<br />
"In <strong>2024</strong> one special highlight will also again be<br />
the R+T Innovation Award," enthused Melanie<br />
28 <strong>Blinds</strong> & <strong>Shutters</strong> • ISSUE ONE <strong>2024</strong><br />
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