Exhibition News
Shanghai Forever Exhibition Announces New Joint Venture with Reed Exhibitions, Strengthening the Automotive Manufacturing Sector
Date: 2018-12-7 23:55:37
7th December, 2018, SHANGHAI – Shanghai Forever Exhibition has announced a new joint venture with the Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX group. The new company, Reed Exhibitions Hengjin, will manage the Automotive Manufacturing Technology & Material Show (AMTS), China’s leading trade event in automotive assembly technology and machinery, as well as the co-located Shanghai International Assembly & Handling Technology Exhibition (AHTE). Reed Exhibitions Hengjin will in addition run a series of related conferences and seminars across China throughout the year covering the various automotive manufacturing hubs.
AMTS and AHTE combined hosted more than 75,000 professional trade visitors in 2018, exceeding 2017’s growth by 12%. The events also played host to 240 delegation groups from a number of premier automotive manufacturers with the high quality conference program well received and a main draw for visitors across China.
(Tom Zhou, Founder of Shanghai Forever Exhibition (on the right) and Michael Cheng, President of Reed Exhibitions Greater China shaking hands on the ceremony)
Tom Zhou, Founder of Shanghai Forever Exhibition said: “This newly announced partnership with Reed Exhibitions will enable us to extend our reach into the international market. Reed Exhibitions strong global network, tradeshow expertise, marketing technology and matchmaking innovations, will make AMTS and AHTE even more successful for our exhibitors and visitors. It’s exciting to see what the future will deliver.”
Michael Cheng, President of Reed Exhibitions Greater China added: “The automotive manufacturing industry is a core pillar of China’s economy, contributing to 11% of China’s total GDP. This new venture enables Reed Exhibitions to expand further and establish a strong foothold in this market.”
The next edition of the annual event will be held from the 3 to 6 of July 2019 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.
About Shanghai Forever Exhibition
Established in 2002, Shanghai Forever Exhibition is one of the few exhibition companies that have the right to host international exhibitions in China. As a leading provider of Key information and marketing services in the engineering field. Shanghai Forever Exhibition provides one-stop, all-round, multimedia for the Asian/Chinese engineering community through its insightful information service channels such as exhibitions, conferences, professional services, digital media, and publishing to create more efficient, deeper and more flat business models with customized marketing service solutions!
About Reed Exhibitions
Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 30 countries. In 2017 Reed brought together over seven million event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business for local markets and national economies. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organised by 38 fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 43 industry sectors with trade and consumer events. It is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
About RELX Group
RELX Group is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs about 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.The market capitalisation is approximately 1,969,930,909 ￡31.6bn, €35.4bn, $40.3bn.
