Press release

No. 2 / September 2021, Cologne#spoga+gafa

spoga+gafa 2022: Exhibitors extend their spaces
Preparations for spoga+gafa 2022 are in full swing. A little less thanten months before the start of next year’s event it is alreadybecoming apparent just how significant the largest garden lifestyle
trade fair is for the gardening industry. Following a successful
early-bird booking period – with bookings from fifty countries andevery continent, plus some considerable increases to exhibition
spaces booked – the list of confirmed international exhibitors sends
out a powerful message for the re-start of the trade fair in June2022.

spoga+gafa
19.06. - 21.06.2022
www.spogagafa.com

Your contact:

Gunnar Goldmann
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Looking ahead to the coming year, there will be plenty that is new at spofa+gafa. In
order to meet requests from the industries involved to adapt the trade fair cycle to
new ordering patterns in the retail sector, this year the trade fair will take place inJune for the first time, having for decades been held in September. “The requests
from customers across all trade fair segments, but particularly furniture, barbecue
and decor, to extend their exhibition spaces – in some cases considerably, show thatthe new event date has gone down very well,” says Stefan Lohrberg, Director ofspoga+gafa.
Since spoga+gafa will no longer be held in co-location with spoga horse, which will
move to February from 2022, it has been possible to accommodate this increased
need for exhibition space. The halls that are now free will be used by spofa+gafa
exhibitors in the garden furniture segment, allowing them to benefit from a further
enhanced visitor flow in the south section of the trade fair grounds. Routes between
the established furniture hall, 10.2 (garden unique) and the two new furniture halls(11.1 and 11.2) will be shorter and more direct, better enabling visitors to meettheir suppliers.
When the supply and demand sides of the garden lifestyle industry come together
again at the Cologne trade fair grounds in June 2022, spoga+gafa’s key theme –which has been carried over into the coming year – will once again be “SustainableGardens”. “The pandemic in particular is proving that the needs and demands ofglobal end customers are changing more rapidly than expected. spoga+gafa isaddressing these challenges and, together with its exhibitors and visitors, isdeveloping responses and solutions to the major issues facing the gardening industry
in future,” comments Stefan Lohrberg. One of the platforms for this within theevent programme will be the lecture programme, “Logistics 2.2 – Nontainer orContainer?”.
In 2022, the physical trade fair in the Cologne exhibition halls will for the first time
be complemented by a digital event, spofa+gafa @home, which will run in parallel.
The new digital event platform will provide exhibitors and visitors with additional+49 221 821-2486
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Executive Board:
Gerald Böse (President and Chief
Executive Officer)
Oliver Frese
Herbert Marner
Chairwoman of the Supervisory
Board:
Mayor of the City of Cologne
Henriette Reker
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District Court Cologne, HRB 952

benefits: online and offline trade fair days that are targeted and perfectly plannedin advance, additional business worldwide, and targeted networking – both during
spoga+gafa and in the digital follow-up to the trade fair.
spoga+gafa 2022 will take place from 19 to 21 June. For information about
confirmed exhibitors and more, please visit www.spogagafa.com.
Here you can find photos for the current press release: Image database spoga+gafa
Koelnmesse – Global Competence in Furniture, Interiors and Design: Koelnmesse
is the world’s top trade fair organiser for the areas of furnishing, living and lifestyle.
At the trade fair hub of Cologne, the leading international fair imm cologne as wellas the trade fair formats of LivingKitchen, ORGATEC, spoga+gafa, interzum and Kind
+ Jugend rank among the internationally renowned and established industry meeting
places. These fairs comprehensively represent the upholstered and case furniture
segment, the kitchen industry, the office furniture sector and outdoor living as wellas the innovations of the furniture supply industry. Over the last few years,
Koelnmesse has specifically added international fairs in the most important fastexpanding markets to its portfolio. These include idd Shanghai, interzum bogotá inBogotá, interzum guangzhou in Guangzhou, Kind + Jugend ASEAN in Bangkok,
ORGATEC TOKYO in Tokyo and Pueri Expo in São Paulo. With ambista, the online
portal for the interiors business, Koelnmesse offers direct access to products,
contacts, expertise and events relevant to the industry all year round.
Further information: www.koelnmesse.com/current-dates/all-trade-fairs/#2
Further information about ambista: www.ambista.com
Note for editorial offices:spoga+gafa photos are available in our image database on the Internet at www.
spogagafa.com/imagedatabase in the “News” section.
Press information is available at: www.spogagafa.com/pressinformation
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Your contact:
Gunnar Goldmann
Communications Manager
Koelnmesse GmbH
Messeplatz 150679 Cologne
Germany
Phone: +49 221 821-2486
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