CIFF Shanghai 2017 Recap

Furniture World News Desk on 10/4/2017

The 40th CIFF Shanghai came to a successful end on 14 September 2017.

The 40th CIFF (Shanghai) reports that it came to a successful end on 14 September 2017. Over 20 years there have been 40 successful editions of CIFF, one of the world’s largest furniture exhibitions.

The most recent CIFF Shanghai, held from 11 to 14 September 2017, included more than 400,000 square metres of exhibition space. The 40th event hosted 2,000 companies from all over the world, and was visited by 91,623 professional visitors from 200 countries and regions, recording a rise of 8.18% more visitors than the previous edition.

The Home Furniture, Homedecor & Hometextile, Outdoor & Leisure, Office Show and Furniture Machinery & Raw Materials sectors attracted buyers from all over the world. Delegations from countries including Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico, India and Indonesia were engaged in matchmaking activities, making satisfactory deals through CIFF, the renowned “Asia’s furniture sourcing center”.

CIFF Shanghai hosted over 30 key events, seminars, competitions and initiatives.

The Pinnacle Awards Asia-Pacific ceremony included a presentation of the work conducted by a prestigious jury: selecting the 30 best products from the more than 1000 candidates. 

Many other diversified events offered impressive highlights, one of those being the Witness the Pinnacle-Hongqiao Design Forum, featured with insightful sharing by the world famous designers Mr. Jonathan Adler and Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa. The Office Life Theme Pavilion tackled the theme of “joyful workplace” and the CIFF & Tmall Deco Carnival showcased ideal life scenarios via simultaneous on- and off-line product launches.

The well-received CIFF Shanghai 2017 was the end-result of constant and dedicated work in the past two decades aimed at providing the industry with tangible solutions.

The 41st CIFF will take place in March of 2018.

More about CIFF: Founded in 1998, the China International Furniture Fair (CIFF) has been successfully held for 40 sessions. CIFF is one of the most influential furniture exhibitions in the world. It runs twice a year in both Shanghai and Guangzhou. Every year the spring edition in Guangzhou connects over 3900 world leading brands with more than 170,000 professional attendees from 200 countries and regions, creating immense value for the international furniture industry. It is expected that CIFF will be a great platform for American design to enter the Asia Pacific market.