Dear Colleagues!

Exhibition events play a significant and still growing role in development of the international cooperation. Annually, about 20 thousand foreign companies from over 100 countries participate in Russian exhibitions and trade fairs. Every year, more than 300 thousand foreign specialists visit Russian exhibitions to establish contacts with potential partners.

On January 13-16, 2009 Expocentr runs the 5pEXPO International Forum of Exhibition Industry and invites you to participate in it.

The objectives of the Forum are to accelerate integration of Russia and the CIS countries into the global economy and of exhibition companies into the global exhibition business; to expand the range of services on offer and raise their quality; to achieve better awareness by exhibition companies and their customers of the current situation in the exhibition industry and prospects of its development.

What makes the Forum interesting for the participants and the visitors is an opportunity to determine the most promising thematic trends and exhibition venues. Forum participants will be able to exchange information on exhibition and trade fair programmes; potential consumers of exhibition services will be able to familiarize themselves with numerous offers on participation in exhibitions all over the world, to set contacts with their organizers, to discuss issues of interest directly at the Forum.

5pEXPO Forum title consolidates five main components of the modern exhibition business:

5pEXPO is an all encompassing exhibition and forum, providing consumers with information on every aspect of activity of exhibition and trade fair centres, companies and operators, developers and suppliers of exhibition and display equipment, as well as many other exhibition-related companies.