PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2015

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Kay Barton Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@hbmedia.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 FRANCE, ITALY, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49 6201-878925 fax: +49 6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Till Kretner reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67354 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 10/15 www.petpla.net dear readers, The autumn exhibition season gets underway! Pack Expo, currently taking place in Las Vegas, signals the start of the autumn exhibition season. Three weeks after the Las Vegas fair comes Fakuma in Friedrichshafen, in October, followed by Brau Bevi- ale in Nuremberg three weeks later. This breathing space between exhibitions gives us just enough time to filter out the essentials and present them to you. Actually, this is proving to be a very relaxed exhibition year; editors have been able to work in the office rather than be constantly on the move. It will be very different in 2016. The autumn exhibition schedule for 2016 will be hectic. South Africa starts the ball rolling in mid-Sep- tember with fdt. A month later China Brew and Beverage opens its doors. Days later, the action moves to the Rhine with the K exhibition. The rollercoaster continues in Chicago with Pack Expo, which over- laps with Brau Beviale in Nuremberg. There is a weekend break in between before Emballage in Paris is upon us and to round off the year, dti in Mumbai provides an appropriate Christmas present. Our suitcase packing and unpacking skills are going to be tested to the limit! One question arises out of all this: why does the entire world schedule its exhibitions for the last 3 months of the year? For the beverages sector the answer is obvious. If the summer has gone well, people have money in their pockets, investment plans for the coming year are being pencilled in, so suppliers need to ensure that their latest innovations fit in with this precise timescale. And let us not forget other branches that tend to be independent of the season (health and beauty or milk for example). Unsurprising then that the blank spaces on the calendar are quickly filled in with exhibition dates. As ever, we will be reporting on all these events, highlighting what’s new and offering a comprehen- sive overview of the major developments. As for me, I’ve just finished packing my cases for Pack Expo in Las Vegas. See you there? Yours Alexander Büchler