EuroTab 2009 - Krakow was the Eastern European retail tobacco trades premier exhibition of the year. Retailers, wholesalers, and industry affiliates enjoyed the opportunity to meet with a multitude of suppliers and to explore the latest tobacco products, accessories, and goods. With the growing markets of the region, all attending exhibitors displayed their latest launches and innovations.
The fair was be bustling with importers, distributors, wholesalers, producers, and vendors from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and the Baltic and Balkan countries as well as from Turkey, North Africa, and the Near, Middle, and Far East.
THE PARTNERSHIPS
Returning to Krakow in its ninth year, EuroTab enjoys the support of many successful companies who have exhibited over the years. Retailers conducted business with leaders in tobacco consumer products including manufacturers of cigarettes, cigars, kretek, and bidis, as well as private label cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco and accessories, lighters, pipes, humidors, cases, papers, and displays.
This past June saw EuroTab return to Poland, one of the region’s most vibrant and developed markets. EuroTab 2009 took place in the country’s bustling city of Krakow, which drew in manufacturers from all over the world, distributors and retailers from all over the region, and a huge number of visitors from all sectors of the industry.
The show was hosted by Tobacco Products International (TPI), the leading tobacco product journal centering on the European market, proved to be EuroTab’s strongest showing to date. Thomas Schuman of the German Tobacco Group
summed-up the good fortune shared by many exhibitors: “Eurolab was very good for us and we were able to establish new international contacts with Japan, China, Jordan, Hungary, and India.” After past successful shows in Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam, EuroTab 2009 — Warsaw drew the most visitors and exhibitors, exceeding all past exhibitions. “We’ve never seen so many visitors, and the amount of business and contacts being made has been extraordinary,” said TPI Managing Editor Evan Dashevsky.
The Organizers that started it all.
EuroTab 2009 was a Lockwood Publications event. Founded in 1872, Lockwood is the publisher of Tobacco Products International, Tobacco International, Tobacco Asia, SMOKE Magazine, and Smoke Shop Magazine as well as the organizer of Tobacco Asia Expo and the EuroTab Exhibitions and Symposiums..
No other Tobacco Products show has so much promotional ability. EuroTab Exhibitions are backed by the leading trade magazines for tobacco and tobacco products and supported by a worldwide sales force, which calls on the entirety of the tobacco industries. Lockwood Publications has over 14 years of Trade Show Experience with shows in Europe, Asia and North America.
