“The current edition of Furniture China 2018 attained the greatest progress over the past ten years, which led the exhibition into a new era. Meanwhile, the organizers have also developed with a superior planning value. The renewing Furniture China emphasizes more on the lifting quality than quantity. High quality is undoubtedly the aim and one of the core competitiveness of Furniture China to make its way to a world’s leading and international furniture expo.” – Mr Wang Mingliang, founder and director of UBM Sinoexpo

This year, the 24th China International Furniture Expo (better known as Furniture China 2018) and its concurrent event – Maison Shanghai 2018 successfully concluded on 14 September in Pudong, Shanghai. During the four-day exhibition, the two shows presented thousands of furniture products and home decorations with around 3,500 exhibitors in SNIEC and SWEECC, reaching a higher standard of visitor engagement, exhibitor satisfaction and customer experience.

The post-show statistics show a positive result of growth in the number of international visitors. Visitor entry counting from all gates break 166,479 in total during the whole exhibition period, both fairs together hosting buyers and visitors from 132 countries and regions, who are mainly from the United States, Australia, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Singapore, Canada and etc. General engagement of visitor on-site attendance is very much satisfactory with 9.82% increase this year and overseas visitors shows an increase of 23.87% compared with last year.

The raising visitor performance has considerably reflected an extraordinarily good year for Furniture China and Maison Shanghai. From upstream to downstream, the two platforms have both greatly stimulated furniture market and have facilitated trade and business for the industry. Annually in September, it’s an ideal real-time interactive business centre gathering global suppliers and buyers at Furniture China and Maison Shanghai in Shanghai (Pudong) to build up connections, communications and contract order of high efficiency.

For the full Press Release: 

Furniture China | Maison Shanghai

Next Edition: 9-12 September 2019

SNIEC | SWEECC, Shanghai (Pudong)