Recent changes in the performance textiles exhibition landscape
Sourcing options for brands and manufacturers of sports clothing and footwear are in flux. Emerald Expositions has announced that it will not produce a Winter Market show in November and will merge the Winter Market show with the Snow Show in January 29-31 2020, overlapping one day with the Munich-based Ispo show (January 26-29). It is in this changing landscape, that new, specialised events seek to make their mark. Reed Exhibitions’ Functional Fabric Fair, organised in partnership with Munich-based Performance Days, in New York City in July featured some 130 exhibitors and attracted 1,866 visitors. The brand-new Première Vision Sport show brought 50 companies under the same roof as the 170 exhibitors at American Events’ North West Materials Show, also in Portland, where some 2,500 attendees walked the combined event’s aisles.
