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Tokyo Industry Exhibition 2009 Successfully Provided Business Negotiation Opportunities to Overseas and Japanese Enterprises!
[Summary of the Event]
At Tokyo Industry Exhibition held at Tokyo Big Sight from November 4th to 6th in 2009, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government invited 8 international enterprises who are interested in doing businesses in Tokyo from countries like Germany, U.K. and so forth to provide opportunities for business negotiations with Japanese counterparts.
This exhibition successfully provided a communication platform between foreign and domestic enterprises. Whole through the event, there were 88 business meetings in total including the ones that appointed in advance and held on the session day. During the meetings, the participated overseas enterprises conducted product presentation to explain their product data and samples in details to Japanese enterprises, which seeded possible future collaborations between them.
Note: Tokyo Industry Exhibition is one of the biggest exhibitions for mid to small-sized businesses in Tokyo metropolitan area (among Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa Prefectures) to introduce their dynamic, innovative, and diverse technologies and products and share opportunities to explore new markets, collaborate with other businesses, and exchange information.
[List of 8 participated enterprises from overseas]
- Atex Fire & Explosion Protection: anti-explosion systems for mechanical equipments, etc
- Kita GmbH: cleaning equipments and resources
- Allner Medical: medical catheters and anesthesia devices
- QASS GmbH: industrial damage detection and inspection systems with acoustic emission technology
- MPT Präzisionsteile GmbH: bearing retainers
- iParv Ltd: bluetooth related products such as earphones
- Automatrics Ltd: GPS tracking systems for stolen cars etc
- Electronic Product Services Ltd: IC programming
[Comments from the participated enterprises from overseas]
The feedback from the overseas participants follows
[Comment #1: An enterprise from U.K.]
“Our company's goal was to find a real business connection, expecting even one company was fruitful; however we got to know two promising companies who can build a serious relationship with us in the future. I believe that this is thanks to great efforts of the organizer. We're continuing the negotiations with them and, if the result of testing meets our demands, we will start official businesses with them.”
[Comment #2, An enterprise from Germany]
“Whole through the Industry Communication Exhibition, our company learned how exhibitions in general held in Japan, how we should prepare for them, and how to communicate with visitors who have certain expectations. This exhibition was very helpful for us to prepare for future opportunities. Tokyo Metropolitan Government gave us great support and we strongly recommend for other foreign enterprises searching markets in Tokyo to participate in exhibitions. ”
Feedback from other participants follows
- Business meetings at individual exhibiting booth were very fruitful. (UK enterprise)
- We acquired 3 promising business agents (German enterprise)
- We're looking forward to continuing negotiations for possible collaboration with Japanese enterprises (German enterprise)
[Comments from participated enterprises from Japan]
The Japanese enterprises who participated in the business negotiations expressed as follows.
- This was a great opportunity and we'll utilize it for our business in future.
- Please remind us if there's another exhibition opportunity to meet overseas enterprises.
As we can see, both Japanese and overseas enterprises enjoyed the exhibition and next opportunity for valuable business negotiations are highly expected.
The next Tokyo Industry Exhibition will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from November 10th (Wednesday) to 12th (Friday) in 2010. We're planning to have overseas enterprises in import and export field from countries such as Germany and U.K.! We also look forward to having more Japanese corporate participants!
