One of India’s premier sourcing events, Apparel Sourcing Week (ASW), recently opened its online visitor registration and the response has been outstanding. In less than a week of going live, over 500 visitors have registered to visit the show. Expectations are really high form the upcoming edition as the show is bigger and also has many new features to keep the visitors engaged. The second edition of the 3-day event – to be hosted in Bengaluru from February 20 to 22, 2020, will be in line with the vision to become the ‘Go-To Sourcing Platform’ for retailers and brands looking for apparel manufacturers from the Asian region. While the previous edition boasted of more than 3,000 visitors attending the show for a period of 2 days, ASW 2020 remains confident about hosting even more visitors, keeping in view the vastness of the upcoming show and the interest being generated well in advance.ASW 2020 will not only open the doors to around 100 manufacturers from India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and China, but will also have a specially designed accessory and fabric section, featuring around 50 innovative companies.
The enthusiasm is heating up for ASW 2020 because not only the exhibitor expanse been increased, but also the visitation of the event will be beyond Indian and international retailers/brands working in the market to include buyers from traditional markets like USA and Europe, as also the non-traditional markets like China, Japan and Australia, where we believe it leads the future.The second edition’s potpourri will give visitors access to 6 seminars, 6 workshops and 8 open house discussions on new and current topics amongst a reputed panel of experts. In addition, there will be 4 vendor sessions – 2 each from global retailers and Indian retailers. To support larger buyer visitation, an international buyer’s program has especially been created to invite and host 200 international buyer delegates who will be accorded special privileges and will be made to visit all the manufacturers.
Significantly, these buyers and visitors from across categories will be attending India’s biggest sourcing event, become part of its US $ 45 billion market.CEOs; designers; sourcing heads and sourcing teams of Indian and international retailers and brands from the UK, Europe, Australia, and Japan; buying houses in the Southeast Asian countries, sourcing for global brands and retailers; wholesalers and importers from across the world looking at importing products from Southeast Asian countries; manufacturing firms looking at collaborations with other manufacturers are invited to register for ASW ’20.Since the entry to the fair is by invitation only, we would require the visitors to complete the registration process which will give an access code to a login that will unlock a host of facilities including seminar slots, workshop slots, networking dinner, fashion show, and awards, among other things.
