The FESPA Africa and Sign Africa Expo held at Gallagher Convention Centre was a major success, with 5592 unique visitors from South Africa and international countries, 941 return visitors and 6533 total visits to the expo. Eighty-two percent of visitors were owners or senior management and 79% are involved in decision making.
 
The top 10 countries from Africa, outside of South Africa included: Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Kenya and Nigeria. Visitors from other regions included: India, United Kingdom and Seychelles. This makes FESPA Africa and Sign Africa the largest expo in Africa for the industry. 
 
Visitors got to discover 3D Printing, T-Shirt printing, CorelDRAW workshops, the Speed Wrap Challenge and were able to engage in the informative Daily Debate sessions. Printing SA hosted an informative conference and a gala dinner for the industry.
 
Exhibitors were ecstatic about the amount and quality of visitors, as well as the equipment sold at the event, with many saying that the 2016 event has been the best show to date.
 
'This is the most amount of people I've ever seen at the expo. We interacted with people from around South Africa and from over the borders. The show was a great success,' said Phil Jones, Managing Director of Regma Cape Town.
 
'This is the best show we've had in three years. The response from visitors has been amazing and we had serious buyers. We sold machines, consumables and software off the stand,' said Clinton Pillay, Sales Manager of CMYK Industries.
 
’It is our first time here and as international company, I can already tell you that this is by far the best show we’ve ever exhibited at. We have had a lot of great leads and were very well received. We are also surprised by how busy it was on all three days. We think the expo team did a great job in organising this exhibition. We are glad to have been part of this epic show. We have also signed a deal with our new local distributors for our products,’ commented Chris Edwards, Owner of CWT Work Tools USA.
 
’This is an awesome show and we are very impressed by the number and quality of visitors, we are on the GSW stand, the new distributor of EFI machines and we’ve already made sales of our machines that were seen at the expo. We also received strong leads, the show is great for business and we will keep exhibiting,’ said James Mellor, Sales Development Manager Middle East & Africa for EFI.
 
‘We’ve had a good show so far, considering that we’re international exhibitors. Visitors showed great interest in our products and the Battle competition,’ said Clément Mateu, General Manager of Hexis.
 
‘We are a very new company and think we made the best decision by exhibiting at this expo as it is good exposure, plus we get to network with industry experts and reel in a lot of customers. We’ve generated a lot of leads,’ stated Michelle Mabille, Sales Consultant for EngravCut.

‘This is a great expo and is better than last year’s one. We have had a lot of customers and strong leads. The amount of visitors was also very consistent throughout the three days,’ said Rudi Bothma, Business Development Manager for Red Hand Sign Supplies.
 
For more information visit: www.fespaafrica.com.