Pakistan participated at Heimtextil 2011

Home textiles from Pakistan

Around 210 manufacturers of home textiles from Pakistan participated at Heimtextil 2011. During last 10 years, this participation has increased remarkably making Pakistan the fourth largest exhibiting country at Heimtextil after China, India and

Germany. The exhibition area has also increased manifold for many of the participating Pakistani companies over the years. According to Mr. Naqi Bari,

Chairman Bari Textile Mils, Heimtextil this year is a show where both buyers

and Pakistani suppliers are cautiously negotiating and doing business but for

short term only due to the uncertain cotton prices. However the signals are good

for Pakistan’s home textiles as buyers seem willing to accept higher prices.

According to Mr. Ayaz Thaver of GIA Associates, one of the first exhibitors from Pakistan at Heimtextil, “the platform of

Heimtextil has been instrumental in development of the home textile sector in Pakistan. The exhibitors who came to the

first Heimtextil were able to market their products without any quotas and restrictions. This helped them to establish a solid

base of home textile industry in Pakistan. Heimtextil has gained even more importance for Pakistan with time.” In the following pages we bring for our readers some glimpses of Heimtextil 2011.

Twin-pronged success at the start of the home-textile year: 5%

more exhibitors and 3% more trade visitors at Heimtextil 2011

The Heimtextil exhibition at the beginning of the year was a great success with

three percent more trade visitors from 136

countries (2010: 120 visitors) and five percent more exhibitors.

Detlef Braun, Member of the Board of

Management of Messe Frankfurt, summarizing the results of the world’s biggest trade

fair for home and contract textiles.

“Important for us, however, is not just the

growth in participant numbers but also the

increased quality of the fair, which both

exhibitors and visitors rated as being very

good.”