The organizers are satisfied for the 2018 edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow which closed on a positive note. The 14th edition, which closed on Saturday at the Crocus Expo-2 international exhibition centre in Moscow, proved yet again to be the leading furnishing and quality furnishing accessories trade fair on Russian territory, exceeding all expectations with target predictions confirmed, with 19,542 professional attendees (plus 9.1 percent compared with 2017), while press and communication operator numbers were up 32.3 percent. Claudio Luti, President of the Salone del Mobile, had this to say: “We are ending the fourteenth edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow on a particularly high note. We believed in it. We invested in it. Our impression is that everyone took on board our wish to do everything we could to maintain our leadership position in this part of the world. We adopted a new display format to showcase a selection of top products, enabling the companies to fully express their identities, as they do in Milan, and increased the opportunities for interface with skilled professionals who made their appreciation of good design manifest.”
170 foreign sectoral professionals, selected and invited by the Italian Trade Agency Ice, took part in 4,400 B2B meetings during the trade fair, underscoring the fact that the event constitutes a fundamental opportunity for familiarisation with the products and the exhibiting companies.