{"id":3934,"date":"2014-05-04T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/05\/04\/shenzhen-show-attendance-off-15-but-foreign-buyer-count-surges-62\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T02:37:33","slug":"shenzhen-show-attendance-off-15-but-foreign-buyer-count-surges-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/shenzhen-show-attendance-off-15-but-foreign-buyer-count-surges-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen show attendance off 15% but foreign buyer count surges 62%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nSHENZHEN, China \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The 20th Shenzhen International Furniture                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nExhibition saw a drop in overall attendance but a big increase in international buyers during its March 19-22 run.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from show organizers, the market drew a total of 67,138 buyers from 105 countries, down 15% from the 79,186 reported last March. But international buyer attendance was up 62% from 8,050 to 13,078, show promoters said.<\/p>\n<p> South Korea sent the highest number of non-Chinese buyers, with 437 organizations represented. There were 64 buying groups from the United States, 53 from Spain and 47 from Japan.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Held at the Shenzhen Convention &#038; Exhibition Center, the event featured some 597 exhibitors in nearly 1.7 million square feet of show space spread over nine indoor halls and three outside areas.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibitors showed a mix of traditional to contemporary upholstery, leather and case goods. For the first time, the show also had an Indonesian pavilion with some 40 manufacturers, as well as a number of first-time kitchen and bathroom cabinet manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>The 21st edition of SIFE will be held Aug. 19-22.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, SHENZHEN, China \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The 20th Shenzhen International Furniture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}