leading trade fair for the electronics industry in South Asia
	high quality of international and national visitors and exhibitors
	numerous business transactions have been made
	excellent supporting conference program attracts industry leaders and experts

The Indian and international electronics industry was present in full might at electronicIndia 2008 held at Bangalore from 2-5th Sept at the Bangalore International Exhibition Center. electronicIndia proved to be the largest trade fair for the electronic components, assemblies, materials  and production equipment with 1010 exhibitors including agents and principals thereof 446 direct exhibitors and a total of 16000 sqmts of space.

There was participation from 25 countries with Germany, UK, Taiwan, Singapore and China with their own pavilions. Companies like Siemens, Infineon, Juki, Assembleon, Samsung, Tyco, JAM, NXP, Farnell, EPCOS displayed their state of art technology.

There were over 12300 visitors and over 4500 attendees i.e. close to 17000 focussed attendees in all. Siemens Marketing Director Ms Irene Lim stated “The response was not only from Bangalore but also from the western and northern parts of India”. Mr. Soni Saran Singh from NM Tronics confirmed “The inflow of visitors has been very good from the start and it has generated a lot of queries and flow of information to our customers”.

The trade fair not only had quantity but also quality of visitors. There were an impressive number of business transactions concluded at the trade fair. Mr Suresh Nair from Leaptech Corporation said “I am extremely happy with the pre show publicity which is of international standards and have already concluded some transactions”.  Ms. Patsy Cheok from Assembleon added : “The advertising for the show was beyond imagination and therefore the response to the trade fair has been so positive”.

Mr. Wang from Retronix UK added “This is our first time in India, and with the response and leads that we have received from the show, we will be setting up our factory at Bangalore or Chennai, and we will definitely return next year”. Mr. Seo from Samsung said: “The show size and environment is very good. We participate only in one exhibition in India and electronic India is the show for us” 

Electronic India 2008 entered into a strategic partnership with IPCA and the response has been very encouraging. Mr. Anil Kumar, President of IPCA, “I am happy with the format of working together and we are very satisfied with the response of visitors”.