These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
The winners of the 14th International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC), hosted by the Department of Industrial Technology under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, were honored at the opening ceremony of the Taipei International Cycle Show (Taipei Cycle) 2010, held March 16-19. With the Taiwan-based Giant, the world's leading bicycle maker by volume, and another heavyweight Merida being al...
After years of planning and playing a role to build local tourism, coupled with backing governmental policies to transform old, traditional industrial parks into tourist spots to generate higher added-value, E Tai Enterprise Co., Ltd., a 33-year-old company headquartered in Keelung City, northern Taiwan and making sanitation products under its own brand Itai, officially opened the “1560 Keelung S...
With the strong support of the Bureau of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the 2009 Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS 2009), held on October 14-16 at the Taipei World Trade Center, generated business opportunities estimated at over NT$1 billion (US$31.15 million at US$1:NT$32.1), including on-spot and follow-up orders. The three-day annual exhibition, which ...
After less than a half-year since taking over as the chairman of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), C.K. Wang is ready to guide the officially-backed trade-promoting organization, amid a new era of global economic turbulence, realigning of world trade powers, financial market upheavals, new-found strengths and undeniable economic potential in emerging markets, and steadily shifti...
Billed as Asia's dedicated exhibition for functional, fashion textiles, the 12th annual Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS 2008) wound up on October 17 by leaving behind echoes of eco-correctness-having generated ample green business opportunities with its focus on eco-friendly textile-related products. The three-day event, co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Developme...
After moving most of its production lines to China, Yung Shing Furniture, a pioneering furniture manufacturer in Tainan, southern Taiwan, found itself at the perfect junction to realize a long-brewing ideal that not only serves the community, but also preserves, chronicles the furniture-making industry in Taiwan: to revamp the idle plant into a museum of furniture making. With years of ef...
As the slogan "Think Taiwan, Think Bicycle" has gradually proved to be more real than wishful thinking in the past two or three years because the island has become the world's most important and largest supply center of high-end bikes, many people might not recall that Taiwan's bicycle exports plunged to only about 3.9 million units in 2003, from about 10 million in the early and mid-1990s. ...
Whoever said that reinventing the wheel is redundant obviously has not set eyes on the incredible ingenuity at the prestigious International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC), whose vision is to groom potential and creative designers, a mission made possible by the throngs of aspiring and seasoned designers spinning their cerebral wheels. The IBDC has been billed as the only global cycle design c...
Riding on one of the world's most influential stages for bicycles, backed by its advantage of being home to Giant, reportedly the leader in bicycle design and manufacturing globally, the Taipei International Cycle Show, which ran from March 13 to 16 in 2008 in Taiwan, rounded off by setting records for visitors and exhibitors, as well as helping foreign buyers to perhaps not only set foot in Tai...
