Texworld closes with a 4% visitor increase

Texworld has once again justified its role as an international meeting place for apparel textiles, with a total of 16,820 visitors from 104 countries (a 4% increase over February 2004), 86% of whom were international buyers.

Texworld ended in positive mood, with exhibitors opining that top level decision-makers had come to Texworld looking for originality and innovation. At the same time, the event has confirmed its function as an order venue, in line with market prices and trends. In any event, importers, wholesalers and ready-to-wear manufacturers come to Texworld to meet high-production-capacity partners, who in turn also demand high volume orders. 620 Texworld exhibitors from some 40 countries encountered two different client categories at the CNIT Exhibition Centre at Paris La Defense. On the one hand, their core, fashion-designer clientele, who were there to look at the new collections and, on the other, new customers primarily from Europe, who were also looking to buy.

The USA (+ 20%) and Canada (+ 20%) again emerging as the two most important visitor nations. The Indian exhibitor Gyan Silk Mills said: “All the people we met either had a genuine interest or were buyers looking for Indian fabrics, an Ethnic look or new concepts. Texworld is becoming an increasingly important venue. Fundamentally it’s the optimum meeting point in terms of trends and business transactions, the perfect place to meet company representatives. The orders placed at Texworld account for 30% of our production capacity, or a total of between 50% and 60%, when the Spring and Autumn events are taken together. This is what makes Texworld the most important fair in my view and the only fair in Europe providing such a great opportunity to buy fabrics at the lowest possible prices.”