"Midest 2009" in Paris between November 16 and 21 - leading industrial subcontracting show

With the aim of presenting production and investment potentials of Serbia in field of processing industry, the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia (PKS) and SIEPA are organizing participation of Serbian entrepreneurs in the world's leading industrial subcontracting show "Midest 2009", which will be held in Paris, between November 16 and 21, 2009.

"Midest" is the world's most significant industrial subcontracting show. It covers all branches of processing industry, except for textile and lumber industry. It is organized at the surface of 50,000 square meters, and it usually gathers about 1,800 exhibitors.

In 2008, 1748 business organizations, 687 of which were coming from the countries other than France (29 countries, mainly European), exhibited at the show. The same year, "Midest" was visited by 37,640 people, while 14% of them came from abroad (from as much as 54 countries). Number of visitors in 2008 grew by over 30% against the previous year.

All companies from the list of world's top 500 industrial production companies are regular visitors and exhibitors at "Midest". Automobile industry will be represented by "Toyota", "Volkswagen", PSA "Peugeot Citroen", BMW, "Renault", "Volvo", "Michelin", "Continental", "Valeo", "Faurecia", "Pirelli"; aircraft industry - "Eads", "Snecma", "Airbus", "Dasault", "Aviation", "Eurocpter"; telecommunications - "Siemens", "Alcatel", "Sagem"; civil engineering and engineering - "Saint Gobain", "Vinci", "Lafarge", "Cegelec"; electric engineering - "Hitachi", "Sony", "Fujitsu", "Philips", "Tyco", "Thales".

More information on this show can be obtained at phone number 011/33 00 959 or on the web portal of PKS:

http://www.pks.rs/tabid/2372/Default.aspx?iditem=7192&idjezik=0&idchannel=76&idlevel=2&newsperpage=1a10