Duesseldorf-based EuroShop, one of the world’s leading fairs for shop-fitting, POS and IT in retail, witnessed participation of over 104,000 retail professionals from around 90 countries. This year’s edition concluded on February 28.
The event also saw a rise in the number of exhibitors – 1,911, as compared to last years’ 1,659. There were around 70 per cent Europeans and 30 per cent participants from rest of the world including 6,900 from Asia.
This year, the organisers had increased the net exhibition area from 94,800 square metres to 107,100 square metres.
Welcoming the Indian retail icon Kishore Biyani, CEO, Future Group, along with Rakesh Biyani, director, Future Group, EuroShop President Dr Bernd Hallier said: “The retail tigers have come to EuroShop”.