Gateway Program

With a stable economy, solid banking system and projected 2010 DIY/home improvement market growth of 2/5% to Cdn. $40.1 billion, Canada offers opportunity for your product sales.

Join HARDLINES on 26, 27, 28 October, 2011 in Toronto, Canada at our "Canada - Gateway to North America" event.

You will enjoy:

• One on One meetings with buyers from the top Retailers & Wholesalers
• Tours of exemplary DIY stores
• Networking with key North American retailers
• Industry experts' presentations on the North American market:
• Market data
• Company information from the buyers themselves
• Regulations (Canadian Standards Association)
• Distributors and Sales Agents
• Information from North American industry experts on the state of the economy, forecasts and retail insights
• Opportunity for tabletop display of your products.

Participants in this event will benefit from the relationships you establish and the knowledge you gain.

For more information, email Beverly Allen, Publisher  bev@hardlines.ca

International Partners:

The European DIY Retail Association (EDRA) is an international organisation representing home improvement retailers across the globe. With contact to almost every home centre worldwide EDRA has its finger on the pulse of current developments, best practices and the latest home improvement trends. To learn more, visit www.edra-online.com

International Tradeshows:

Koelnmesse
Germany, 4-6 September 2011  www.spogagafa.com

Cologne’s No. 1 garden trade fair, spoga+gafa, attracts around 2,000 exhibitors from 53 countries and more than 41,000 trade visitors from across the globe. Products for garden creation, care, maintenance, improvement or living, are all exhibited in one of the five green areas of the trade fair: garden creation, garden living, garden care, garden excellence and garden basic.

Shanghai New International Expo Center
China, 21-23 September 2011     www.hardwareshow-china.com

China International Hardware Show has grown into the world’s second largest and Asia’s largest and leading trade show for the entire hardware and DIY sectors. This unique show offers specialist traders and buyers around 2,100 exhibitors across 100,000 m2 in the sectors of Tools, DIY and Building Hardware, Security, Locks and Fittings with a comprehensive category of products and services in one of the largest markets in the world - China.

China International Hardware Show features:

• The largest professional and international hardware show in China as well as Asia
• A gathering of than 2,300 leading domestic and overseas enterprises, covering an area of 110,000 sqm in 2010. A total of 35,958 domestic and overseas buyers visited the show.
• The only hardware show in China that has won the continuous support of the Int’l Federation of Hardware & Housewares Associations (IHA).

Koelnmesse
Germany, 4-7 March 2012   www.eisenwarenmesse.com

The International Hardware Fair is one of the leading trade platforms in the hardware industry. Taking place every two years, the trade fair hosts around 56,000 trade visitors from 124 countries who come to see more than 2,600 suppliers from 52 countries exhibiting new products and innovations in the sectors Tools, Industrial Supply, Fastening & Fittings, Locks & Fittings and Home Improvement