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EXPOPRINT 2014
Monday 22. October 2012 - Dieter Brandt shows the power of the Brazilian graphic market and fairs at Graph Expo 2012
Dieter Brandt, president of Afeigraf (Association of Manufacturers and Agents for Equipments and Supplies of the Brazilian Graphic Industry) was at Graph Expo 2012 in Chicago, USA, to reveal for exhibitors and visitors all the vigor and power of the Brazilian market, industry and fairs in a lecture held on October 9.
What Dieter revealed on U.S. soil were important data about an economy that resists global crisis, since Brazil has become the focus of foreign investment, along with other emerging economies such as China, India and Russia. No wonder, Brazil grows continuously, even in the face of global crises, and attracts investments with its strong economy and political and social stability.
Besides showing a strong economy, Dieter revealed an organized and focused graphic industry that is getting stronger, with 200,000 employees and representing 1.5% of Brazil’s GDP. A graphic industry that grows along with the Brazilian economy and, therefore, needs fairs that are as large and important as the Brazilian and Latin American market.
That’s the case of ExpoPrint Latin America 2014, which since its first edition in 2006, already became the largest trade press in Latin America and is currently the fifth largest graphic fair in the world and doesn’t stop growing, counting now with two additional exhibition pavilions for the 2014 edition. The next edition of ExpoPrint Latin America will occur from 16 to 22 July 2014, at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo.
Dieter also revealed a new fair, ExpoPrint Digital 2013. ExpoPrint Digital has the same focus from traditional ExpoPrint – bringing cutting-edge graphics hardware, but this time, for digital printing, personalization, transpromo and short runs for the commercial, promotional and editorial segments. It is a smaller exhibition, where technological changes happen more frequently. This is why Expoprint Digital is now completing this concept of providing most actual information in a quickly changing market segment.
The first edition of Digital ExpoPrint will occur from 13 to 16 March 2013, the pavilion Blue Expo Center Norte, in São Paulo.
“At Graph Expo 2012, we showed that Brazil is in an excellent scenario, both in the economic and technological advances, and also with its major events, with a strong, united and organized industry. The global focus about us is justified because of our growing strength in the graphic industry”, said Mr. Brandt.