Italian Exhibition Group S.p.A. (IEG) announces the 7 th edition of GOLD ITALY - International Business Workshop, scheduled to take place from Saturday 26 th to Monday 28 th October 2019 at the Arezzo Fiere Congressi Exhibition Centre.

GOLD/ITALY, the autumn event where the very best of Made in Italy jewellery meets international buyers, is to be held from 26 th to 28 th October. Now at its 7 th edition, the B2B event, organized by Italian Exhibition Group, will once again be enlivening the halls of Arezzo Fiere Congressi with its exclusive international business workshop that professional traders so highly praised last year.

On show, a selection of brands and companies from all the Italian gold districts - Arezzo, Vicenza, Valenza, Torre del Greco, Milan. Exhibitors will be presenting the best expression of the country’s gold and jewellery manufacture, appreciated for its extraordinary design and innovative creativity, silverware, semi-processed goods, stones and components, to buyers from the sector’s main markets, from the United States to the Middle East, from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong and Asia.

The visitor experience will be enriched by three special areas: the dynamic Cash&Carry aimed mainly at Italian and foreign retailers who will be able to choose and directly buy a wide variety of products; the section for Packaging, where retailers and manufacturers can meet visual merchandising and packaging experts able to offer products and personalized solutions; and Tech, the area where some of the top, globally renowned companies will be offering the most cutting- edge processing technologies.

Accurate product segmentation and detailed trader profiling are the foundations of the show’s success. An exhibition that offers unique business opportunities due to its ability to create an effective exchange between supply and demand. In fact, buyers and exhibitors can share their agendas and arrange targeted meetings virtually through the innovative digital Business Matching platform developed by IEG and proposed exclusively for the first time in the jewellery sector at the previous edition.

FOCUS ON ITALIAN EXHIBITION GROUP SPA
Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), listed on the Mercato Telematico Azionario organized and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A. (Italy’s stock exchange), is the Italian leader in the organization of trade expos and one of the main players in Europe in the expo and conference sector, with its venues in Rimini and Vicenza. The IEG Group stands out for theorganization of events in five categories: Food & Beverage; Jewellery & Fashion; Tourism, Hospitality & Lifestyle; Wellness, Sports & Leisure; Green & Technology. In recent years, IEG has launched an important process of foreign expansion, also by means of joint ventures inked with local players (e.g. in the United States, Arab Emirates and China). IEG ended the 2018 financial year with a total consolidated turnover of 159.7 million euros, an EBITDA of 30.8 million and a net consolidated profit of 10.8 million euros. In 2018, IEG held an overall total of 53 exhibitions organized or hosted and 181 conferences events in its Rimini and Vicenza expo and conference venues. https://www.iegexpo.it/en/

AREZZO FIERE E CONGRESSI
Arezzo Fiere e Congressi Srl, the company whose stakeholders include the Tuscany Region, Arezzo Chamber of Commerce, Arezzo Council and Province, is presided over by Sandra Bianchi, sole director. For 40 years the company has been organizing the OROAREZZO Show - now managed by IEG as part of the IEG Jewellery Agenda - which gathers together exhibitors from all the Italian gold-silver districts. The congress facility has a Congress Centre Auditorium with seating for 950 and was designed by the GMP Studio in Hamburg. The company has organized cultural initiatives and workshops in prestigious locations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Chile and Argentina.