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a variety of shades of blue and the return of the
vintage style, wich became the season’s musts and
the protagonists of both events.
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Expominer &
Colecciona Barcelona
Minerals, Fossils and Jewellery Exhibition
The Philately, Numismatics and Collectors Exhibition
09-11/11
MONTJUÏC. EXPOMINER: 34TH EVENT /
COLECCIONA BARCELONA: 1ST EVENT
Area:
13,400 m
2
Exhibitors:
200
Type:
professional and public
Activities:
workshops, lectures, drawing
competition. Exhibitions: “Minerals of
the future”, “A postal history of Catalonia”
and “Republican Exile”
200
exhibitors
Collectors of minerals, jewellery, fossils,
stamps, coins and other objects met at the
Montjuïc venue to enjoy their hobbies, since
it jointly hosted Expominer, the International
Minerals, Fossils and Jewellery Exhibition,
and the first event of Colecciona Barcelona,
the Philately, Numismatics and Collectors
Exhibition. The latter was organized by Fira de
Barcelona and the Philately and Numismatics
Guild of Spain, with the cooperation of
the National Association of Philatelic and
Numismatic Businesses and the Catalan
Federation of Philatelic Societies.
The joint offer of both events allowed for a
vast display of collectable products: stamps,
coins and notes from different periods, medals,
engravings, champagne lids, miniatures,
thimbles, old posters and photographs, in
addition to a great display of minerals, jewellery,
precious and semiprecious stones and fossils.
Some visitors could even purchase meteorites
from Mars and the Moon.
Expominer incorporated Joia Gallery, a new space
created in cooperation with the Col·legi de Joiers,
d’Orfebres, de Rellotjeria i de Gemmòlegs de
Catalunya, where audiences could admire and
purchase exclusive design jewels made with
minerals and fine gems.
While the commercial exhibit aimed at fostering the
sale of the objects on display, the shows pretended
to inform about the cultural heritage associated
with geology, philately and numismatics, as well
as to encourage the younger visitors to embrace
collecting as a formative leisure activity.
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Expomóvil Comercial
Spare Components and Aftersales for Vehicles
15-17/03
MONTJUÏC. 1ST EVENT
Area:
13,000 m
2
Exhibitors:
102
Type:
professional
Activities:
lectures, sessions, awards
250
brands
The main objective of Expomóvil Comercial’s first
event was to catalyse the aftersales sector. More
than 250 brands took part in the show, which
received purchasers from Italy, Portugal, Morocco
and Germany, in an attempt to improve the
situation of a sector highly hit by the recession.
The Spanish Federation of Professional Employers
of the Automotive Sector (CONEPA) estimated
between 4% and 7% decrease of operations in
Spanish repair centres in comparison with 2010
and that more than 2,500 of repairers had closed
its doors or changed ownership.
In addition to a vast commercial offer, featuring
premieres in the Spanish market, Expomóvil
hosted a vast program consisting of technical
sessions and activities. Worthy of note were the
ones organized by the National Federation of
Tyre Distributors and Repairers (FENACOR), The
Catalan Federation of Car Repair (FECATRA),
the Spanish Confederation of Car Repair
and Similar Garages (CETRAA), The Spanish
Federation of Professional Employers of the
Automotive Sector (CONEPA), and the ones
organized by the show in cooperation with Auto
AfterMarket News, to inform about the situation
of the Portuguese market.
Likewise, the show hosted many work meetings,
B2B meetings and professional sessions;
worthy of note was the General Assembly of
the European Garage Equipment Association or
the deals made between thirty exhibitors and
Portuguese important purchasers.
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Fespa Digital
21-24/02 06-14/11
GRAN VIA. 5TH EVENT (FIRST TIME IN BARCELONA)
Area:
15,235 m
2
(rough)
Exhibitors:
400
Type:
professional
Activities:
Hall of Fame, demonstrations,
conferences, exhibitions
Organised by
FESPA LTD
111
countries
The Barcelona event was the first Fespa Digital
show to be hosted in Spain and, according
to the organization, it as the most complete
and ambition program so far, mainly aimed at
satisfying the needs of large-format printers.
This meeting was designed for the graphic arts
sector, but also to the sector of packaging: digital
serigraphy, offset, lithographic and wrapping;
sign manufacturing, etc. There was also room for
small-format printing.
Spain brought the most visitors (45%), followed by
the United Kingdom (6%), France (6%), Italy (6%)
and Germany (4%). The appointment of Barcelona
as host became a great asset for printers from the
Iberian Peninsula and France. Visitors came from
more than 111 different countries, which surpassed
all initials expectations of attracting the presence of
13,000 professionals.
Besides the exhibitions, there were other activities
which captured the attention of visitors related to
training, future opportunities, business opportunities
and professional skills.
Worthy of special mention is the Explore
Conference area, which hosted more than
40 individual training sessions, dealing
with issues related to business creation,
technological development, narrow-format
printing, sustainability, digital signage,
commercial perspectives, printed electronics
and ecological printing.
The Hall of Fame, in turn, paid tribute to the most
important names in the field of digital printing in Europe.
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Children Festival
27/12 - 04/1
MONTJUÏC. 49TH EVENT
Area:
40,000 m
2
Exhibitors:
70
Type:
public
Actividades: sport events, games, workshops,
competitions, concerts
100
different activities
The Children Festival, a Christmas benchmark
for children and youth leisure for almost five
decades and the most traditional in Catalonia,
offered children and their families more than 100
activities to enjoy in the holiday season: games,
gymkhanas, rock climbing, sports, educational
and solidarity workshops, drawing contests,
adventure circuits, biking tracks, volleyball
championships and ice-skating and concerts for
all tastes and ages.
It also combined amusement with the promotion
of values such as healthy eating habits, solidarity,
public spiritedness and respect for the environment.
One more year, the event paid special attention
to the practice of sports and hosted sports stars
from different disciplines, such as FC Barcelona
players Adriano, Muniesa and Cuenca, who signed
autographs for more than 1,100 children. Swimming
World Champion Melanie Costa, and the captain
of the Spanish national water polo team, Felipe
Perrone, also visited the festival, as well as the
skeleton Olympic driver Ander Mirambell, the players
of the FIATC Joventut de Badalona basketball team
and Jordi Morales, Paralympics champion and silver
medalist in table tennis in London 2012.
Music was another highlight of the festival,
which hosted concerts by groups as popular
as Amelie or Macedonia, among many others,
which made very happy a large number of
children, who sang and danced with artists every
day on the festival’s stage.
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