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A “SOLD OUT” SICAM

As the great furniture fair in Milan has come to an end, the preparatory work is being laid in Pordenone for an excellent new edition of SICAM, the show dedicated to semi-finished products, supplies, and accessories for the furnishing industry, which will be held next October 15th-18th.
In the stands and streets of Milan it was possible to see and touch the ideas, mechanisms, decorations, and surfaces presented last October in Pordenone and that today appear in the most beautiful kitchens, tables, cabinets and furniture that will delight all the enthusiasts and lovers of “beautiful design“, who have arrived in Milan from all over the world.

A ritual that repeats itself every year and that also next October will see gathered at SICAM 2024 all the most important names of furniture supplies. All available space has long been sold: just under 20 thousand net square meters of exhibition space, thanks to the expansion of hall 5 – already used in the 2023 edition – and the additional space recovered in the area adjacent to hall 8.

“An intervention that has allowed us not only to welcome some companies that had remained on the waiting list, but also to be able to have an even more rational exhibition center, in which we can design easier and more effective visiting routes,” commented Carolina Giobbi, SICAM’s marketing and communications manager.

More than 496 stands (direct exhibitors) will animate SICAM 2024, 68% of which represent “Made in Italy” and 32% confirm the great internationality that the show has always been able to boast even on the exhibitor front. After the Italian contingent is confirmed the German group, followed by Turkey, Austria, Spain and gradually by the other foreign countries that will be present at the event.

“The numbers comfort us and tell in a very concrete way the value of the only Italian exhibition event dedicated world of furniture supplies,” continued Carolina Giobbi. “A reconfirmation rate of more than 90 percent and a waiting list to which we unfortunately cannot give satisfaction we believe are the best way to confirm the good shape of the exhibition.”

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CARLO GIOBBI OPENS THE DOORS TO THE “SECOND GENERATION” OF SICAM

It is time to open the doors to the second generation of SICAM to my children Carolina and Michele, and involve them in an even stronger and more direct way in the management of this beautiful fair which, thanks to the exhibitors and visitors who choose us every year, has become a consolidated point of reference in the international calendar of exhibitions”.

With these words Carlo Giobbi – founder of SICAM, the international exhibition of components, accessories and semi-finished products for the furniture industry – announced that he wanted to give continuity and further impetus to the event by involving Carolina and Michele Giobbi in an even stronger and more direct way, always alongside his father in this endeavor.

The news – communicated to the numerous journalists present at the opening press conference of SICAM 2023, which took place from 17 to 20 October – was greeted with long and moving applause. Carlo Giobbi immediately wanted to clarify that this is certainly not a handover, but the dutiful recognition of the work done by his children in recent years and an incitement to continue a highly successful path in a time that requires fair organizers to be up to date with the transformations underway.

“We must look to the future, demonstrating that we have the will and energy to enrich our position as an effective meeting point between people with new content,” concluded Giobbi. “The vision, skills and experience of Carolina and Michele will allow us, I am sure, to continue to represent a quality experience and a concrete business opportunity for the world of furniture supplies”.

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SICAM 2023 convinces again

THE INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE SECTOR RECOGNIZES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SICAM FORMAT

The 14th edition of SICAM, which was held in Pordenone from Tuesday 17th to Friday 20th October, ended with a response beyond the best expectations: with more than 650 exhibitors from Italy and 34 foreign countries, the show marked a real confirmation of the strength and liveliness of the components and accessories sector for the furniture industry, marking the moment of choices and decisions for the furniture that will be proposed in the main international exhibitions of the next year.

There were around 9,000 companies, for a total of well over 20,000 attendees in the four opening days, who from 112 countries all over the world showed up at the fair in Pordenone to meet their best suppliers: in the 18,420 m2 net of the ten halls, many new novelties are proposed in all sectors of the supply chain. As always, high-profile business meetings and commercial relations were the characterizing feature of the Show: “They confirmed themselves as a strong point of the SICAM format” underlined Carlo Giobbi in this regard, who took the opportunity of this edition to announce the handover of the management of SICAM to Carolina Giobbi and Michele Giobbi.

SICAM is a complex but very high-performance machine: the companies that participate, both as exhibitors and visitors, continue to confirm a very high loyalty rate. Already at the end of these four days of the fair, the organizers received more applications than in the past to participate in the next edition: a clear and unequivocal signal that the market itself continues to provide, seeing in the effectiveness of the Fair, in its timing and in its location in the heart of North East the set of factors that makes it chosen every year as the ideal meeting point.

Interest and a lot of curiosity around the debut of “Enjoy Pordenone with SICAM“, the platform created by the Municipality of Pordenone to celebrate a fair that attracts thousands of people who were able to participate in over 90 appointments, meetings, exhibitions and initiatives in the city center.

The appointment for the 2024 edition is therefore already set in Pordenone, from Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th October.

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