INTEX SOUTH ASIA POST SHOW REPORT 2016

POST SHOW REPORT

The 2nd edition of Intex South Asia – South Asia's only international sourcing show concluded
on a successful note which witnessed 2485 professional trade buyers from 18 countries and
regions who visited the exhibition and interacted with more than 140 textile suppliers to source
yarns, apparel fabric, denim fabric and clothing accessories from India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Italy
and South Africa.

The show was inaugurated by Mr. Arindam Bagchi, Acting Indian High Commissioner (Chief
Guest) and Mrs. Indira Malwatte, Chairperson & CEO, Sri Lanka Export Development Board
(Guest of Honour) in the presence of top industry leaders, corporates, diplomats, government
ofcials, heads of trade associations and media.

Intex South Asia is the rst focused business platform in our region which is specically
designed to synergise the garmenting needs of international brands and retailers with the
manufacturing strength of South Asia satisfying both exports and large domestic markets.
The show brought the entire manufacturing and supply chain together in one location by
bringing together the best textiles and clothing accessories manufacturers along with allied
service providers.

Besides the 'Trends Zone' and 'Denim World', the highlights of the show was the interactive
business forums held on 16th & 17th November alongside the exhibition with the theme
"South Asia – Powering the Global Textile and Garment Industry". The business forums had
distinguished speakers from Sri Lanka, India and United Kingdom that came to share their
views and discuss on business potential in our region and sustainability in the global apparel
and textile industry.

Mr. Noel Priyatilake, Chairman of Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) shared the insights
on the topic: Positioning Sri Lanka as a Hub of South Asia - Opportunities and Challenges
for the textile and garment sector and also Intex South Asia hosted the rst-ever exclusive
presentation by the world renowned trends and forecasting agency, WGSN in Sri Lanka. Kim
Mannino, Head of WGSN Live, UK gave a detailed presentation on "Autumn-Winter 17/18
Season on Men & Women Fashion Trends and Forecast" to a full-house audience at the
exhibition.

All major apparel exporters and international sourcing ofces in Sri Lanka came in large
numbers with their sourcing and design teams under various product/brand verticals to
interact with suppliers and to nd innovative products and designs for the next season. These

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included Brandix, MAS, Hiradamani, Omega Line, Timex Garments, Emjay International,
MAST Far East, Vogue Tex, Hela Clothing, Lucky Industries, Marks & Spencer, Columbia
Sportswear, Tesco Sourcing, Next Sourcing, George UK, Victoria's Secret, Decathlon,
Dewhirst, Asmara International, Li & Fung, William E. Conner's & Associates, UVW Apparels,
Comtex Global, Adeem Uniform, Wag Worthy and many more.

The show also attracted a number of international buyers to Intex South Asia - Inditex Asia
(India), Marks & Spencer (Bangladesh), Liverpool (Mexico), The Uniform Exports (Canada),
KIKADU (Germany), Korl Mayer (Germany), Tragart (Switzerland), Aswakov (Thailand),
AGMS (Japan), SKANDA (Singapore), Frontex Fashion (Hong Kong), Tsar (Malaysia), CTA
Apparel (India), Wildcraft (India), Lifestyle Department Stores (India), Orchestra Buying &
Retail (India), S. Oliver (India), Maral Overseas (India), Mufti (India), Oriental Sourcing
(Pakistan), to name a few.

Overall the exhibitors and buyers were extremely satised with the quality of business people
present at the exhibition. The environment was extremely conducive for business and was
further enhanced by the one-to-one business meetings held at the show.

In the years to come, we believe that Intex South Asia will become an important sourcing
platform in the global calendar of textile sourcing events and will attract leading buyers and
brands across the globe to come to Sri Lanka for their sourcing requirements.

Looking forward to creating a much bigger, wider and successful platform in 2017!

3rd Edition

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SOUTH
ASIA
2017

Yarns = Apparel Fabrics = Denims = Accessories
SOUTH ASIA'S PREMIER SOURCING FAIR

15-17 (Wed to Fri) November, 2017
Sri Lanka Exhibition & Convention Centre (SLECC)

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GRAND VIP OPENING CEREMONY

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GLIMPSE OF INTEX SOUTH ASIA 2016

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GLIMPSE OF INTEX SOUTH ASIA 2016

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GLIMPSE OF INTEX SOUTH ASIA 2016

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GLIMPSE OF INTEX SOUTH ASIA 2016

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FACTS & FIGURES

EDITION: 2nd

EXHIBITOR
Number of Countries: 13
Number of Exhibitors: 141

EXHIBITING COUNTRIES:
India • Sri Lanka • Pakistan •

China Bangladesh • Taiwan •

Korea Japan • Malaysia

Singapore Indonesia • Italy •

South Africa BUYER’S COUNTRIES
India • Germany • Pakistan • Saudi Arabia • Bangladesh
BUYER Mexico • China • Canada • Hong Kong • Singapore
Number of Countries: 20 Japan • South Africa • Thailand • Spain • Taiwan
Number of Buyers: 2485 Switzerland Malaysia • United Kingdom • Italy • USA

EXHIBITOR PRODUCT PROFILE: BUYERS’ PROFILE

52%

18% Apparel / Textile Manufacturers
Apparel / Textile Exporters
13% Sourcing Ofces
11% Buying Houses & Agents
APPAREL FABRICS Local & Intl. Retail Chain Stores
YARNS 6% Domestic Apparel Brands
CLOTHING ACCESSORIES Fashion Labels / Designers
DENIM FABRICS Trading Houses & Distributors
ALLIED SERVICES Trade Associations
Government & Industry Bodies

OUR PARTNERS

THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

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WHO VISITED THE SHOW?

Intex South Asia 2016 witnessed 2485 professional trade buyers from 20 countries making it
more successful than the inaugural edition in 2015 – increase by 28%!!!

Top Exporters from Sri Lanka - Brandix, MAS, Hiradamani, Omega Line, Timex Garments,
Emjay Intl., MAST Far East, Vogue Tex, Hela Clothing, Lucky Industries, Ocean Lanka, Aitken
Spence Garments, Crystal Martin, Hayley's, MAS Linea Aqua, JB Apparel, EAM Maliban, Metric
Products, Rainwear Lanka, Trend Setters, Himaco Garments, Union Apparels, Smarts Shirts,
The Madhatter, Kash Garments, Concord Apparels, WAF Group, Orient Designs, BAM Holdings,
Star Garments and many more.

Domestic Brands & Retailers of Sri Lanka - Hameedia, Odel, NOLIMIT, Double XL, Cotton
Collection, Arugam Bay, Kelly Felder, House of Lonali's, Avirate, Azmorr, Rough T-shirts, RBN –
Reborn, WW Denims, Jezza Fashion, DM Kids, Akiy Tees, Junior George, SaSa Lingeries, LICC
Jeans, Bernards, Lovi Ceylon, Trendy, Emerald, Dilly Carlo, Reborn, Rainco and many more.

Sourcing & Buying ofces of International Brands/Retailers – Marks & Spencer, Columbia
Sportswear, Tesco Sourcing, Next Sourcing, George UK, Victoria's Secret, Decathlon, Dewhirst,
Berksha, Oysho, Liverpool, Stretchline, Orchestra Buying & Retail, Wildcraft, Levi's, Hansel
Textil, MIOSIS, Midas Safety, Texvis Lanka, Piotex, MYO JPN, Pacic Atlantic MFG., Fashion
Design Philosophy, Asmara International, Li & Fung, William E. Conner's & Associates, Adeem
Uniform, Wag Worthy and many more.

Overseas buyers came from following countries:
India • Germany • Pakistan • Saudi Arabia • Bangladesh • Mexico • China • Canada
Hong Kong • Singapore • Japan • South Africa • Thailand • Spain • Taiwan • Switzerland
Malaysia • United Kingdom • Italy • USA

Some names of international buyers @ Intex South Asia:

Inditex (India) Marks & Spencer (Bangladesh & Sri Lanka)

Liverpool (Mexico) The Uniform Exports (Canada)

KIKADU (Germany) Korl Mayer (Germany)

Tragart (Switzerland) Aswakov (Thailand)

AGMS (Japan) SKANDA (Singapore)

Frontex Fashion (Hong Kong) Tsar (Malaysia)

The MAA Group (Bangladesh) CTA Apparel (India)

Wildcraft (India) Lifestyle Department Stores (India)

Orchestra Buying & Retail (India) S. Oliver (India)

Saud M. Saeed Al-Hamadi Trading Est. Denim Crafts (Pakistan)

(Saudi Arabia)

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WHAT EXHIBITORS HAD TO SAY?

90% of the exhibitors were satised with the results of their participation
88% of the exhibitors participated to identify new buyers for their products
84% of the exhibitors received more than 50 enquires at their booth
87% of the exhibitors rated the overall ambience & services as “Satisfactory”

Testimonials:

The Federation organised 12 companies from Taiwan
here that received good feedback for their products
from Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico,
Europe and USA buyers. Many exhibitors are new to
this market and these companies are looking forward
to receive business orders from potential customers
that visited us at the show. -Sean Tsai, Taiwan Textile
Federation, Taiwan

We are glad to be associated with Intex South Asia
since its launch in 2015. This unique platform gives us
the opportunity to promote our textiles to new buyers
and also meet our existing customers from South Asia
here in Sri Lanka. Overall, we are happy with the quality
of buyers that visited our booth. See you @ Intex
South Asia 2017! -Peggy, PT Sinar Para Taruna,
Indonesia

This is the 1st time we participated in a trade exhibition
in South Asia to promote our Vaporizable Tailors Chalk
which we have been producing since 1984. At Intex
South Asia, we are delighted to have met some good
companies who can be our agents to promote and sell
our products in Sri Lanka. -RabbitChalk, Korea

We generated good enquires from India and Sri Lanka
for different kinds of yarns and fabrics that the buyers
are looking to source from Pakistan. I believe Intex
South Asia will be a successful sourcing platform
across the world in the years to come. -Mubeen,
Abtex International, Pakistan

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WHAT BUYERS HAD TO SAY?

83% of the buyers that visited the show were Garment Exporters, Brands Sourcing
ofces, Buying Houses and Agents,
88% of the buyers that visited the show were decision makers and senior management
89% of the buyers were satised with the products showcased at the exhibition
94% of the buyers agree that Intex South Asia platform could help them source textiles
from South Asia and beyond
82% of the buyers came to identify new suppliers and see latest products & designs
Testimonials:
Thank you for having me here. This is more helpful than Premier Vision and Tex World for our
sourcing requirements of fabrics - Dominic D' Silva, S. Oliver, India

This is a good initiative by Worldex India to bring all Asian suppliers in one room to create
business opportunities for both buyer and supplier. I would love to have more suppliers and
would love to come again for our sourcing requirements - Gunjan Batra, CTA Apparels, India

We are an agent and trading company from Thailand supplying bers, yarns and fabrics to
many countries such as Vietnam, India, UAE, South America, Turkey, etc. I visited to identify
new suppliers and see new product design showcased by suppliers.
- Surachai Wongprompreeda, ASWAKOV, Thailand

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WHAT BUYERS HAD TO SAY?

Thanks for inviting me as a VIP buyer for Intex South Asia 2016 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am
dealing in yarns & got lots of yarn suppliers from India at the show. I am happy with the overall
arrangement and I hope in future Intex South Asia will be big sourcing fair in our region.
-Mohammed Sohel, Bangla Poshak Ltd, Bangladesh

Good to see these types of events in Sri Lanka. I am happy with the product mix and exhibitors
from all across Asia at the show - Prabath Thennakoon, Adeem Uniform, Sri Lanka

This was my rst visit to Sri Lanka and I found this platform very interesting for sourcing
textiles for our brand – Liverpool which are considering manufacturing in Sri Lanka now.
Thank you to the organisers for creating such sourcing platform in South Asia.
-Stephen Patton, Liverpool China ofce

We are bulk importers of fabrics in Saudi Arabia and supply to distributors, wholesalers,
retailers in the Middle-East sub-continent. We have met with good suppliers whom we can
work in near future. - Falak Muhammed, Saud Saeed Al-Hamadi Trading Est., Saudi Arabia

Very happy to visit Intex South Asia! It's better compared to other fairs in our region.
- A.S. Abdul Rehman, Bhagyam Exports, Chennai

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MEDIA & PROMOTION ACTIVITIES

BUYER PROMOTION ACTIVITIES

Telephone Invitation
E-mail Marketing Campaigns
Direct Mailing to specic target group
Print Advertising (Newspapers & Magazine)

Personalised Invitations
PR Campaigns and Press Release

Collaboration with Trade Bodies
Social Media Activities

Website Marketing Initiatives
Hoardings and Billboards

Mobile Marketing Campaigns
On sight Branding

MAIN STREAM ADVERTISEMENTS

Live Mint - 27th July 2016 • Tecoya Trend - 12th Nov '2016 • Daily Mirror - 17th Nov 2016
Daily News - 16th Nov 2016 • Daily News - 17th Nov 2016 • Lankadeepa - 15th Nov 2016
Lankadeepa - 16th Nov 2016 • Daily Mirror - 08th Nov 2016 • Daily Mirror - 10th Nov 2016
Daily Mirror - 15th Nov 2016 • Daily Mirror - 16th Nov 2016 • Daily Mirror - 17th Nov 2016
Virakesari - 15th Nov 2016 • Virakesari - 16th Nov 2016

TRADE PUBLICATION ADVERTISEMENTS

Textile Value Chain - India • Apparel Times - India • Bangladesh Textile Today -
Bangladesh
Pakistan Textile Journal - Pakistan • Textile Excellence - India
• CMAI Apparel - India
Images Business of Fashion - India • Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD) - Sri Lanka

ONLINE MARKETING

10Times.com • CMAI.in • Srilankabusiness.com • EventsPanda.com

FashionatingWorld.com • Fibre2fashion.com • Newstrands • PRGMEA

SLABA • SLCB • TradeIndia.com • YNFX.com

KnittingIndustry.com • Tofairs.com • Expocheck.com • Jetro.go.jp

Yamu.lk • Srtepc.org • Allevents.in

SOCIAL MEDIA

OUR MEDIA PARTNERS

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Sri Lanka
Media Coverage
Mainstream Advertisement
Trade Publication Advertisement
Online Promotion

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Ceylon Today -17th November, 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily FT -17th November, 2016

Daily News 17th November, 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily News - 18th November, 2016

Daily News 17th November, 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily Mirror (Business) - 18th November, 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Rivira - 20th November, 2016
Sunday Leader - 20th November, 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Mawbima - 23rd November, 2016
Daily Mirror - 23rd September 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily News - 23rd September 2016
Ceylon Today - 25th September 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily FT - 27th September 2016 Adha
10th October 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Sunday Leader - 25th September 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Sinhala - 16th November 2016

Daily News - 28th October 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Rivira - 16th October 2016

Daily Mirror - 1st November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily FT - 1st November 2016 Ceylon FT - 2nd November 2016

Daily News - 11th November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily FT - 10th November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Ceylon Today - 13th November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Daily Mirror - 15th November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Adha Sinhala - 13th November 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

LMD Press Release - October

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Daily Mirror - 8th November 2016

Daily Mirror - 10th November 2016

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Lankadeepa - 15th November 2016

Daily Mirror - 15th November 2016

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Virakesari - 15th November 2016

Daily Mirror - 15th November 2016

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Lankadeepa - 16th November 2016

Virakesari - 16th November 2016

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Daily Mirror - 16th November 2016

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MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT

Daily News - 17th November 2016

Daily Mirror - 17th November 2016

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TRADE PUBLICATION ADVERTISEMENT

Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD)

Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD)

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TRADE PUBLICATION ADVERTISEMENT

Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD)

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ONLINE PROMOTION

Srilankabusiness.com

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ONLINE PROMOTION

SLABA

SLCB

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ONLINE PROMOTION

Yamu.lk

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International
Media Coverage
Mainstream Advertisement
Trade Publication Advertisement
Online Promotion

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Pakistan Textile Journal - September Bangladesh Textile Today - October

Tecoya Trend - July

Khoyout Magazine - October

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Textile Excellence - August
Textile Value Chain - July

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Textile Excellence - October Textile Value Chain - October

Tecoya Trend
3rd October 2016

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Business of Fashion - October

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