Fiera di Vicenza: the showcase for the best of Italian production

With a calendar that includes 12 shows a year, 6,000 exhibitors and 450,000 visitors, Fiera di Vicenza is one of the most dynamic Italian exhibition systems.

As a company at the service of the economic system, Fiera di Vicenza lends its support to the Italian production line by helping it to seize global market opportunities. It is the interlocutor and partner of the very best international distribution channels, buyers, chain stores, purchase groups and retailers.

As a showcase for the best of Italy in terms of quality, creativity, beauty and innovation, Fiera di Vicenza excels with international shows in two sectors: gold and jewellery with its three annual editions of  VICENZAORO and life style with the Hunting and Fishing Shows, the Hunting, Nature, Shooting and Fishing exhibition and Abilmente, the creative handicraft show.

Gold and jewellery international events

VICENZAORO is the symbol of Fiera di Vicenza. It is its core business and its main means towards internationalisation. It is the most important chance to meet and do business for the precious metal and stone industry worldwide. With its various editions within the Fair calendar, VICENZAORO Winter in January, VICENZAORO Spring in May and VICENZAORO Fall in September, it provides a global view of developments in the offer, style, market dynamics and trends, and focuses on the evolved consumer.

As an experimental workshop of innovative and distinguishing exhibition formats, Fiera di Vicenza has created and produced special events like VICENZAORO About J, a new concept of aggregation, visibility and communication for the leading players in the jewellery world.

An exclusive, by invitation only event for top-of-the-range products, reserved to just 25 leading brands of Italian and international haute couture jewellery, 100 international buyers and top Italian retailers, the 2012 edition of VICENZAORO About J will be held in the magnificent setting of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the pearl of the Dolomites.

In 2012, VICENZAORO About J will become a travelling show appearing in some of the principle and most interesting international gold and jewellery markets like India, the About J World Tour’s first stop next August.

With an already successfully tested aggregation formula and considerable visibility for Italian gold and jewellery companies, VICENZAORO Italian Club will once more be playing a leading role at the JCK Show in Las Vegas in June 2012.

Trend Vision Jewellery + Forecasting

Fiera di Vicenza is the first organisation in the jewellery business to create a Research Centre specialising in deciphering consumer behaviour. Trend Vision Jewellery + Forecasting was set up in support of the best of Italian products by supplying companies, buyers, designers and retailers with previews of the international markets through objective research, carried out according to scientific criteria, that intercepts the transversal macro-trends in the world of luxury and fashion.

The new Fair

Fiera di Vicenza is busy with an monumental architectonic project which, by 2013, will provide new spaces, functions and services to make its exhibition events even more modern, efficient and pleasant. Fiera di Vicenza’s building renovation plans include the construction of a new, 15,000 m², one-floor fair pavilion and the building of a multi-level car park with 8 floors and parking space for 600 vehicles, as well as extra work on the road network and access points.

The life style events

Fiera di Vicenza proposes new exhibition formats for highly potential, interesting, current and unusual niche areas that are very different to gold and jewellery. These sectors are rather varied and range from leisure time to the home and life style, from creativity to technical innovation, from shows aimed at  trade operators and the public alike to sports shows and hobby-work. Events that are awaited for enthusiastically by an increasingly large public, as the growing success of Abilmente and the Hunting & Fishing Shows go to prove, which now attract thousands and thousands of visitors from both Italy and abroad.

HOUSE and FURNISHINGS

SpazioCasa

Spaziocasa gathers together the most interesting proposals for the home and domestic environments: from modern, traditional and designer furniture to furnishing accessories, antique furniture, restoration and modern antiques, from hand-crafted items to architecture, from interior design to heating and air conditioning technologies, from house accessories to garden and balcony furniture and a large sector entirely dedicated to the happy couple.

COLLECTING

Vicenza Numismatica

Fiera di Vicenza’s International Coin, Medal and Banknote Collecting Exhibition, the most important event in this sector in Europe, where commercial and cultural aspects successfully come together.  To celebrate its 20^th anniversary, the 2011 edition decided to host side shows and commercial areas in the historical centre of Vicenza and inside some of its beautiful buildings.

SPORT, TOURISM, LEISURE AND CREATIVITY

Gitando e Gitando.all

Fiera di Vicenza’s exhibition dedicated to tourism, travel and open-air holidays, where one can acquire a complete view of holiday possibilities. From camping to hotels, from the mountains to the sea, from capital to artistic cities, from theme parks to wine and food.

The Gitando.all Show, which includes accessible tourism, is open to Italian and foreign trade operators and the thousands of enthusiasts in search of alternative, new and fascinating ideas for their holidays.

Abilmente

Abilmente, in its spring and autumn editions, is one of the top European Exhibition-Workrooms for manual creativity. Abilmente’s star protagonists are the specialised workshop areas  (patchwork, felt, creative sewing, home decor, wool and other yarns, as well as the Etsy Workroom, a dynamic space to learn about the techniques of on-line selling), where participants can take courses and watch demonstrations carried out by leading Italian and international creative hobbyists. The educational area, which has become a meeting point for national tutors, therapists and teachers, is extremely popular.

EXHIBITION CALENDAR

VICENZAORO Winter

January 14 - 19

for trade operators

SPAZIOCASA

February 5 - 12

for the public

HUNTING + PESCARE SHOW

February 18 - 20

for trade operators and the public

ABILMENTE primavera

March 1 - 4

for the public

GITANDO

March 22 - 25

for trade operators and the public

MED.IT

April 19 - 20

for trade operators

VICENZAORO Spring

May 19 - 23

for trade operators

VICENZAORO ITALIAN CLUB @ JCK LAS VEGAS

June 1 - 4

for trade operators

ABOUT J

September 5 - 8

for trade operators

VICENZAORO Fall

September 8 - 12

for trade operators

VICENZA NUMISMATICA

October

for the public

ABILMENTE autunno

October 18 - 21

for the public

SECURITY EXHIBITION

November

for trade operators and the public