The Numbers Talk
Visitor`s break-up by industry and region at India`s `total` packaging event 2008.

India's Total Packaging event received 13,534 unique visitors over the four day period. “The quality of visitors is improving with each exhibition,” said Neelkant Bakshi of Packolabel.

Much like the previous year the visitors were evenly divided between users of packaging and those from the printing and packaging industry. While the Printers, Converters, Corrugated Box Manufacturers and their suppliers formed around 45 percent of the visitors, the end users from industries like Food & Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Personal Care and Organized Retail formed a little over 37 percent. AIDC, Automation, IT and Logistics saw close to 10 percent and the rest being Government officials and representatives of trade associations, media and others.

However, the regional profile of the visitors saw a little change where 72 percent of the visitors came from North, two thirds of which were from NCR alone. South numbered 8 percent while east contributed close to 3 percent. There was a perceptive increase in the visitors from the West at 17 percent, which is 30 percent higher than last year. `We received a lot of inquiries from regions like Maharashtra and Gujarat indicating growing popularity of the show in these areas,` said Nalin Sharma, Global Graphics.

Date: 24-Sep-2008