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Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Expansion Opens

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

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The new edition to the HK Convention & Exhibition center was opened for trade business for the first time this week from the 13-16th for the electronics fair (spring edition). The extension construction lasted a little over three years. If you ever have sourced products for merchandising, but have failed to visit Hong Kong for trade development, you have lost valuable opportunities to achieve a greater price point for your products.

Although it is true you can source from home here in the US through distributors and drop-shippers for hundreds of thousands of products, it’s not the same as sourcing direct. As a designer of watches I know the value of this statement, I source products from Switzerland, Japan, China, and Germany. Each country has magnificent trade development resources and trade fairs. However,  Hong Kong trade fair as set its sights on being king of them all which would include overtaking  Canton Fair in Guangzhou which 

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