Our company will participate in the "29th Middle East (Dubai) Five Industry Expo - BIG5 SHOW" held in Dubai from November 23 to 27, 2008. The booth number is H21. Welcome new and old customers to visit and guide!
Exhibition introduction:
BIG5 is the largest construction, building materials and service exhibition in the Middle East. It was held in 1980 and is held every year. The Five Middle East Industry Exhibition, held at Dubai World Trade Center from October 28 to November 1, 2006, occupies all its ten pavilions and the Al Multaqua pavilion, as well as the entire temporary structure of the Zabel Pavilion and the Dubai International Exhibition Center that has just been put into use. Outdoor Pavilion. The area of one Zabel Pavilion alone accounts for 35,000 square meters. In addition, the organizing committee has specially set up national pavilions in Italy, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Egypt and other countries, which are quite conspicuous.
According to the statistics of the organizing committee, 2,892 enterprises (2,477 in 2005) from 67 countries and regions (58 in 2005) participated in the exhibition, with a total of 2,158 booths (1,886 in 2005). During the exhibition, professional registered visitors from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, other Gulf countries, Egypt, India, Iran, Africa and Europe and other countries and regions reached 41,058 (38,535 in 2005), an increase of 6.5% over the previous session. Among them, visitors from overseas accounted for 52%, which shows its great influence. According to the survey of exhibitors by the organizing committee, 90% of them believe that the quality of visitors is relatively good and very good, and these companies directly expressed their willingness to participate in the next exhibition.
market background:
With more and more multinational companies entering the UAE, the local commercial office buildings and hotels are also increasing, and the demand for aluminum, plastic steel, cement, steel, marble, bathroom and other building materials is increasing. The population of the Gulf region grew from 46 million in 1970 to 100 million in 1990. It is expected to reach 170 million in 2010, making it one of the fastest growing regions in the world. The high per capita annual income, strong purchasing power and the growing maturity of the Gulf market have led to a continuous increase in the demand for housing by local residents. About 60% of the Gulf's population is under the age of 25, indicating that they will need about several million units over the next 10 years; in Saudi Arabia, the annual housing demand is 158,000 units. Due to the rapid development of tourism in the UAE, the entire infrastructure is in a period of full-scale construction, driving the rapid development of the construction industry in the UAE. Currently, leisure projects with an investment of approximately US$10 billion are under construction. In Dubai, the number of hotels has grown from 233 in 1996 to 265 in 2000, and in the next 5-7 years, it is expected that another 150 hotels will be added and the number of rooms will increase to 55,000. According to the statistics of relevant departments, the six Gulf countries will spend more than 200 billion US dollars in the construction industry in recent years; only the real estate investment of the United Arab Emirates will exceed 63 billion US dollars in the next seven years. One can imagine how hot the building materials market in the Middle East will be!