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Sai Gon home furnishing fair comes to Hanoi

The 2015 Vietnam furniture & home furnishing fair (VIFA HOME Sai Gon) will come to Hanoi for the first time from August 6-9, bringing about 110 exhibitors with 418 pavilions.
The 2015 Vietnam furniture & home furnishing fair (VIFA HOME SaiGon) will come to Hanoi for the first time from August 6-9, bringingabout 110 exhibitors with 418 pavilions.

The fairwill be a networking venue for industry stakeholders and consumers,making it easier for them to extend distribution channels as Vietnamjoins the ASEAN Economic Community, Vice President of the Handicraft& Wood Industry Association (HAWA) of Ho Chi Minh City Huynh VanHanh told a press conference in Hanoi on May 12.

Ondisplay will be interior and exterior decor, wooden toys and furniturefor offices, restaurants, hotels, resorts, condominiums and designconsultation services.

For the first time, theorganising board will launch an online showroom where exhibitors canintroduce their products and services at the lowest possible costs.

Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Domestic MarketDepartment Vo Van Quyen said the domestic wood industry is worth 2-2.5billion USD annually.

The event is hosted by theHAWA, Lien Minh Wood Handicrafts Jsc, the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development’s Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Processing Department andthe Vietnam Wholesale.-VNA
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