IFTF EXPO ready to expand!

Vijfhuizen, May 2, 2011. Exactly six months before the opening of the second edition of the International Floriculture Trade Exhibition (IFTF), which will be held in Expo Haarlemmermeer, the 3 current available halls are fully booked. Not counting the 7 small stands still being available, the organisers are ready to expand, according to Dick van Raamsdonk, Managing Director of HPP Exhibitions in Amsterdam.

With this “Full House”, the expectations of the organisers have come true to a full extent, who predicted last year November that by the end of April of this year a fourth hall (Phase 2) would be necesary to accomodate the increased demand for space. Last week the final ok was given for an extension of a so called temporarily hard wall climate controlled temporarily tent (Hall D), through a license issued by the local authorities.

IFTF Expo, which is together with FloraHolland & Horti Fair founding member of the International HortiWeek, hopes to start as soon as possible with the execution of the plans. The real starting date will how ever depend on the moment that sufficient extra exhibition space will actually be needed. In any case, with the latest developments the current dimensions of the Expo Hall are not an issue anymore and can IFTF grow with almost no limitation. Until this moment the current number of available exhibition meters added up to a total of 16.000 m2's, but with the increased available space it can now grow with 9.000 m2's, to a total of 25.000 m2's.