Comments on: Tobacco Industry Trade Exhibitions – the skinny http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2010/03/12/tobacco-industry-trade-exhibitions-%e2%80%93-the-skinny/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tobacco-industry-trade-exhibitions-%25e2%2580%2593-the-skinny Information on the Tobacco industry Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mr.khair http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2010/03/12/tobacco-industry-trade-exhibitions-%e2%80%93-the-skinny/comment-page-1/#comment-3147 mr.khair Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:30:06 +0000 http://www.tobaccotoday.info/?p=498#comment-3147 Dear sir, we are intrest with cigarrettes to buy for afghanistan market if your company doing export then let me know to we order your, let me know all details. thanks. mr.khair. ajmal shafi co.ltd. . Dear sir,

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]]> By: Glenn A John http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2010/03/12/tobacco-industry-trade-exhibitions-%e2%80%93-the-skinny/comment-page-1/#comment-2211 Glenn A John Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:06:42 +0000 http://www.tobaccotoday.info/?p=498#comment-2211 I don’t really relish coming to the defense of competitors such as the World Tobacco/TJI coalition (WT), but we need to get something straight. Just because Tobacco Reporter (TR) had a few Tabexpo Exhibitions in Europe doesn’t mean they “own” Europe and all rights to shows there. This is especially true since they’ve ventured out of this territory 5-6 years ago to start up a roster of shows and conferences in Asia. Does WT “own” Asia and all rights to shows there just because they were the only traditional expo players there? I don’t think so. It’s a free enterprise system where individual for-profit players have any right to have an exhibition anywhere the market will bear. Also, let’s get clear on another concept. Just because TR announced their European show one week before WT does not get them credit in the first-mover category. TR pushed forward its plans to announce a show in Prague when I personally tipped them off that WT was imminently going to announce its own show in Munich. Planning events like this take several months of negotiations and there’s simply no way that WT hurriedly whipped up a location, hall and dates in one week just to “counter” TR’s announcement. Let’s just leave it that both shows were announced the same time. One thing is certain: the growing number of competing and conflicting shows is the future of the tobacco industry as the individual magazines continue to try to out-do each other around the world. And it will get even more crowded once magazines not having shows decide to enter the fray. For one, Tobacco Asia, headquartered and operating in Asia, has a much better grasp on the Asia region that does its carpet-bagging colleagues TR and WT. Why should TA sit by on the sidelines and watch other magazine groups profit handsomely by holding shows willy nilly in what could arguably be called “Tobacco Asia” territory? We think we have a solution which I, along with a growing group of concerned people are calling the International Tobacco Business Association (ITBA). ITBA’s sole purpose will be to own and operate tobacco industry exhibitions FOR and BY the industry itself. This will not be a lobbying group for tobacco industry issues. This will not be a profit center for a sole magazine group and its owner(s). This will be a private federation of key tobacco industry exhibitors whose leadership committee will call the shots on the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and why’s of tobacco exhibitions that they will organize globally according to their own interests and desires. This is not rocket science. It has been the solution several industries have taken previously, many of them to solve the exact same problems we’re seeing in the tobacco business: too many shows, conflicting shows, and high costs. By organizing a solid association/federation, the ITBA with key supporting members will render the “too many shows” issue moot, as ITBA will decide which show it will hold, and non-member companies will follow. By owning and operating the shows, ITBA will have much lower costs to exhibitors than the above mentioned for-profit operators.. I along with Heneage Mitchell and Charles Allmer and other interested parties in ITBA will be at the WT India exhibition and would like to move this concept forward. Please contact us to discuss and put your name down as a supporter. TR and WT are sure to start announcing their conflicting and competing shows for 2012 any day now, and it’s best that ITBA moves forward by then, or the industry can simply expect more of the same going forward. Looking forward to hearing from you Glenn Anthony John – glenn@itobacco.org Charles Allmer – charles@itobacco.org Heneage Mitchell – heneage@itobacco.org Benoit Jacobs – benoit@itobacco.org I don’t really relish coming to the defense of competitors such as the World Tobacco/TJI coalition (WT), but we need to get something straight. Just because Tobacco Reporter (TR) had a few Tabexpo Exhibitions in Europe doesn’t mean they “own” Europe and all rights to shows there. This is especially true since they’ve ventured out of this territory 5-6 years ago to start up a roster of shows and conferences in Asia. Does WT “own” Asia and all rights to shows there just because they were the only traditional expo players there? I don’t think so. It’s a free enterprise system where individual for-profit players have any right to have an exhibition anywhere the market will bear. Also, let’s get clear on another concept. Just because TR announced their European show one week before WT does not get them credit in the first-mover category. TR pushed forward its plans to announce a show in Prague when I personally tipped them off that WT was imminently going to announce its own show in Munich. Planning events like this take several months of negotiations and there’s simply no way that WT hurriedly whipped up a location, hall and dates in one week just to “counter” TR’s announcement. Let’s just leave it that both shows were announced the same time.

One thing is certain: the growing number of competing and conflicting shows is the future of the tobacco industry as the individual magazines continue to try to out-do each other around the world. And it will get even more crowded once magazines not having shows decide to enter the fray. For one, Tobacco Asia, headquartered and operating in Asia, has a much better grasp on the Asia region that does its carpet-bagging colleagues TR and WT. Why should TA sit by on the sidelines and watch other magazine groups profit handsomely by holding shows willy nilly in what could arguably be called “Tobacco Asia” territory?

We think we have a solution which I, along with a growing group of concerned people are calling the International Tobacco Business Association (ITBA). ITBA’s sole purpose will be to own and operate tobacco industry exhibitions FOR and BY the industry itself. This will not be a lobbying group for tobacco industry issues. This will not be a profit center for a sole magazine group and its owner(s). This will be a private federation of key tobacco industry exhibitors whose leadership committee will call the shots on the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and why’s of tobacco exhibitions that they will organize globally according to their own interests and desires. This is not rocket science. It has been the solution several industries have taken previously, many of them to solve the exact same problems we’re seeing in the tobacco business: too many shows, conflicting shows, and high costs. By organizing a solid association/federation, the ITBA with key supporting members will render the “too many shows” issue moot, as ITBA will decide which show it will hold, and non-member companies will follow. By owning and operating the shows, ITBA will have much lower costs to exhibitors than the above mentioned for-profit operators..

I along with Heneage Mitchell and Charles Allmer and other interested parties in ITBA will be at the WT India exhibition and would like to move this concept forward. Please contact us to discuss and put your name down as a supporter. TR and WT are sure to start announcing their conflicting and competing shows for 2012 any day now, and it’s best that ITBA moves forward by then, or the industry can simply expect more of the same going forward.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Glenn Anthony John – glenn@itobacco.org
Charles Allmer – charles@itobacco.org
Heneage Mitchell – heneage@itobacco.org
Benoit Jacobs – benoit@itobacco.org

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