By Allison Watkinson
TLL Reporter
The schedule and program for this year’s Kids India trade fair event has been officially announced.
Organized by Spielwarenmesse India Pvt. Ltd. and the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Kids India is an international business-to-business trade fair for the toy, children’s products and sporting goods industries.
At the fair’s 2022 restart, following an enforced two-year break for the pandemic, more than 120 exhibitors and 5,476 trade visitors from 33 countries were in Mumbai.
With some 150 companies currently registered—including not only giants of the industry but also local businesses and interesting startups—Kids India offers a broad product portfolio. Alongside classic toys such as goods for babies and infants, dolls and plush fabric products, wooden toys and modelling, the varied product range also includes fields such as electronic and educational toys. Complementing this world of products will be sports, leisure and outdoor products.
There will be no shortage of knowledge-sharing either. On the first two days of the fair, Kids India offers a comprehensive program of attractive seminars and interactive podium discussions. The presentations tackle political measures to support the toy industry as well as market trends and innovative technologies. Alongside these, there will also be a focus on startups and their routes into the industry, and the topic of toys and mental wellbeing.
Kids India 2023 will offer a comprehensive trade fair program that features multiple seminars, podium discussions, and presentations.
Topics covered by the presentations will include market trends, emerging technology, political support of the industry, start-up development, and more.
Approximately 150 companies are currently registered to attend this year’s Kids India event, which means about sixty percent of the event space has already been allocated.
The attendees of the fair will include representatives and exhibitors from international corporations, local businesses and newly launched startups.
The fair’s organizers are offering a travel cost package called the Hosted Buyer Program for a limited number of international trade visitors.
Put together by the Sports Goods Export Promotion Council (SGEPC), the Hosted Buyer Programme gives approved applicants a number of travel benefits.
These benefits include reimbursement of flight costs upon arrival at the fair, a two-night hotel booking in Mumbai, exclusive meetings with exhibitors and direct discussions with relevant sales representatives.
Kids India 2023 is scheduled to take place from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. Interested companies can register for the ninth edition of Kids India through the trade fair’s official website at https://www.kidsindia.co.in.
Spielwarenmesse India Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of the global trade fair organizer and marketing services provider Spielwarenmesse eG, which also organizes the world’s largest toy fair annually in Germany.
Crowds Come Back to Nuremberg as Spielwarenmesse Toy Fair Returns