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NL Chamber was established in January 2012 as official Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce by 50 Macedonian companies, according to the Macedo nian Law on Chambers of Commerce.

About half of these companies is partly or fully Dutch owned.

Objective of NL Chamber is to promote and support successful business relations between Dutch and Macedonian companies.

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eventsFourth Dies Natalis: Tasting of Dutch winter dishesSneak Preview: Marriott Hotel SkopjeGeneral Assembly: new president and board membersStudy visit Dutch Fashion Business SchoolBack to Business Breakfast 2015networkMembers visit membersDutch plastic bag producer in KosovoMacedonian wine for christmasmembersOpening new building Vima FashionMak-Kozha invested in production line sneakersDutch road service in new clothing by VPTexNatuurgevelsteen present at Gevel 2016Holmak signs MoU with Faculty of Technology BitolaTehnokoop adjusts to Dutch marketTech Meetups for IT professionalsAmbassador meeting with the business communityNew members Frontwise, Radius Architects and RevelAppsshort Short News / Calendar of Trade Fairs

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Fourth Dies Natalis: Tasting of Dutch winter dishesThe fourth birthday of NL Chamber was celebrated with a 5-course tasting of typical Dutch winter dishes at Skopska Crna Gora.

A rich potage of peas is the first warm meal of the year - at least for the thousands of Dutch, participating in the tra-ditional New Year’s dive into the Northern Sea or any other open water in the Netherlands.

traditional Dutchwinter dishes

NL Chamber dedicated the celebration of its fourth Dies Natalis to traditional Dutch winter dishes, prepared Paul Houthuijzen. Dressed in an of-

ficial chef’s jacket provided by HaVeP, Paul served the guests a 5-course dinner of pea soup, vegetable stews, captain’s din-ner, stewed pear and semolina.

Skopska Crna Gora

For this event we selected a small, cosy restaurant on the slopes of Skopska Crna Gora, north of Skopje, exact-ly providing that warm winter

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atmosphere, Vila Vesnica. Ambassador Wouter Plomp and Deputy Head of Mission Peter Verheyen were also be present.

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Sneak Preview: Marriott Hotel SkopjeThe Dutch general manager of the brand new Marriott Hotel at Macedonia Square in Skopje will host a “sneak preview” for NL Chamber members.

Potential customers as well as potential suppliers are invited to join NL Chamber’s Sneak Preview at Marriott Hotel Skopje. On 3 February Gene-ral manager Dirk Vlierboom will guide the group around through the eight floors of this new hotel which is scheduled to open on 30 March.Marriott International Inc. from Bethesda, Maryland, USA operates this hotel with 149 rooms, 15 suits, 10 conference rooms, a fitness centre and an indoor pool on 9 floors.

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General Assembly: new president and board membersAt the fifth General Assembly the members will elect a new president and two new board members.

Due to the early departure of Wietse Mutters from Mace-donia, the General Assembly needs to elect a new president for NL Chamber. Since both other members of the Board, Marta Naumovska Grna rova and Marcel Melles have reached the end of their second statu-tory mandate and cannot be re-elected, also two new board members have to be chosen.

The Foundation NL Chamber is to select and propose a candi-date for president.

candidates

Representatives of the mem-bers of NL Chamber can stand up for one of the two board member positions and inform the Executive Director of their motivation in writing including

a biography, no later than two weeks prior to the General As-sembly.There is also one vacancy for member of the Supervisory Board, for which the same pro-cedure applies.

The General Assembly has been scheduled for Wednesday 30 March 2016.

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Study visit Dutch Fashion Business SchoolA tradition has started: for the third time a group of Dutch students in fashion business management came to Macedonia for a study visit.

From 8 to 11 December a group of 20 students and teachers of Dutch private fashion business school TMO visited Macedonia on a sourcing study tour.

VPTex and MGI

This was already the third such study tour, which has become a standard part of the curricu-lum. Since the beginning the study tour includes visits to NL Chamber members VPTex Macedonia and MGI. VPTex produces workwear and pro-tective wear under the brand HaVeP and is part of Dutch Royal Van Puijenbroek Textiel.

MGI is a producer of men’s trousers in Skopje, managed by a Dutch entrepreneur.

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The study tour provides a com-plete picture of all aspects of production of textile and lea-ther items, including t-shirts, denim and car seat covers.

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With a week delay because of bad weather conditions, the second Back to Business Breakfast again attracted a large crowd.

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NL Chamber’s Back to Busi-ness Breakfast was originally scheduled for 10 September, which happened to be a very rainy day. One week later, the event was covered in sunshine and again some 30 people came to the green hill behind printing house Bato & Divajn to enjoy Dutch and Macedo-nian breakfast delicacies.The guests were welcomed with a glass of “oranjebitter”, a sweet Dutch liquor, produced by Schermer Wijnkopers.

new ambassador

Having arrived in Macedo-nia only a few weeks before, Ambassador Wouter Plomp took the opportunity to get acquainted with NL Chamber members. Prior to the break-fast, Plomp met with the own-

Ambassador Wouter Plomp meeting with Zoran Rosomanov of Bato & Divajn

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er of Bato & Divajn, Zoran Rosomanov, who showed him around in the printing house and the furniture production facility.

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Matchmaking is one of the core activities of NL Chamber. That also includes actively matching members to other members.

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Members visit members

Sometimes the annual net-working events Dies Natalis and Back to Business Breakfast are not enough to introduce certain members to each other. In such cases NL Chamber hap-pily initiates a company visit.Ladies’ wear producer Vima Fashion visited the factory of Feydom and bought a sofa set for its brand new facility in Ko-cani.

productivity

Dutch Steel Con, running a factory for reinforcement ar-matures and steel construc-tions near Kumanovo, visited Zavar for cases where their clients ask for stainless steel

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There are also Dutch companies just accross the border.

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Dutch plastic bag producer in Kosovo

Only 43 km from Skopje, in Kosovo, Kivo Plastic Verpak-kingen BV opened a joint ven-ture for extrusion of plastic garbage bags and high- volume flexo-printing of thin but strong plastic bags for bread. Brought together by a German supplier

of flexo print machines, the partners invested 5.5 million EUR. Kivo Kosovo employs 65 people and operates 24/7.

processing equipment. Marta Naumovska Grnarova, owner of Zavar: “It was very interest-ing to hear how they doubled productivity, by changing the common Macedonian way of working.” Ton Telkamp, pro-duction manager at Steel Con: “It may look easy, but in fact we are talking about a change of culture, which requires con-tinuous attention for a long period of time.” A return visit by Zavar to Steel Con is being

planned.

foundation forfuture co-operation

The visit of Thijs Zomer of Natuurgevelsteen to tree nurs-ery European Plants of Joost Michels laid a strong founda-tions for a future co-operation. Zomer: “It is really amazing what Joost has established!”Both gentlement saw good op-porturnities for joint activities in the coming years.

Kees Jan Nieuwenhuis and Ton Telkamp with Marta Naumovska Grnarova

Joost Michels and Thijs Zomer

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Several Dutch members choose to give their Dutch clients a bottle of Macedonian wine for christmas. The christmas package season starts in February with a trade fair.

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Macedonian wine for christmas

Several of our Dutch members chose this year to treat their clients and relations to a bottle of Macedonian wine for christ-mas, like Anthura did. It is that opportunity that can be used better by Macedonian wineries - and companies in other sec-tors as well.

christmas package fair

Although sales have decreased over the years due to econo-mic crises, the habit of giving a christmas package to all employees or key clients is still commonly known in the Nether lands. As a niche in the relational gift business, several companies are active in com-posing and selling packages as

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a christmas gift. Already on 9 and 10 February the christmas package season starts with a trade fair at Expo Houten, near Utrecht: the Neder-landse Kerst pakkettenbeurs. One week later, on 16 and 17 February the second such fair GéPéBé takes place at Autotron, Rosmalen. Com-

Italian pasta theme with plates, olive oil and wine

cheese & wine theme

tea theme with breakfast items

colour theme: green

fair trade certified products only

posers and resellers gather at these fairs, showcasing ranges of (mostly) food pro-ducts, grouped around certain

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The tradition started early 19th century with farmers who gave their workers a basket of food to celebrate christmas with their families. Later on, the christmas package became a common “thank-you” for all employees, still focussing on food and drinks for the christ-

mas dinner with the family.Nowadays, employers look for alternatives matching the com-pany’s identity or expressing certain ideas. Herewith the-matic packages were intro-duced, including also non-food products and gift cards. Com-panies can also choose to let their employees compose their personal christmas package online.

internal to relational gift

Recognizing the promotional potential of christmas gifts, companies also started trea-ting their customers and key relations with presents at christmas, often calendars, agendas or bottles of wine.

potential for Macedonia

The importer of Stobi wines in the Netherlands, Schermer Wijnkopers, is exhibiting at the first fair, offering for exam-ple customized bottles. Univin,

importer of amongst others Tikves is active in relation-al presents with customized wooden boxes with wine.One step further would be the introduction of thematic “Taste of Macedonia” packages. Ha-ving in mind that winter is the planning period for the sum-mer holidays, one could even think of wine and ajvar, com-bined with less typical food products from Macedonian producers, a tourist map and an entrance ticket to the Dutch Tourism Fair where Macedonia is always present.

Luxury wine package with appetizers

Wellness theme: bathrobe, spon ges, teapot, tea-glasses, tea and sweets

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Sponsors of NL Chamber

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Ladies’ wear specialist Vima Fashion opened a new production facility in the industrial zone of Kocani.

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Opening new building Vima Fashion

It was a long and difficult pro-cess, starting with the pur-chase of land through a public tender and followed by a chal-lenging period of construction. But the result is a state of the art garment production facility of 1,400 sqm with a wonderful view on the Plackovica Moun-tains from the offices on the first floor.Dutch clients, family and friends came to Macedonia

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Ambassador Wouter Plomp congratu-lates Wim Westen.

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The owners of NL Chamber sponsor Boeke stijn Transport Services with local partner Sali Ibishi of Mega Trans

Willeke and Joost of NL Chamber member European Plants.

to attend the official opening celebration together with the staff, employees, subcon-tractors and the new Dutch ambassador to Macedonia, Wouter Plomp. NL Chamber patron member Pivara Skopje arranged for the liquid part of the catering.

BSCI

The construction plans took into account the latest stand-ards in the industry. These ef-forts have been recognized with the awarding of the level B certificate of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) for the first time in Macedonia.

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After several trips to Turkey and lots of testing, Nini Gjorgjiev ski established a pro-duction line for sneakers under the brand name X-Steps.Nini: “You can easily roll up the sneakers and put them in your bag in case you want to change your shoes for something more comfortable. We added scent to the granules for the sole to avoid that plastic smell!”

The leather shoe producer Mak-Kozha from Kumanovo installed equipment to produce an own line of sneakers.

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VPTex developed and produced a 14-piece outfit for the 900 men and women of Dutch road service ANWB Wegenwacht.

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Dutch road service in new clothing by VPTex

It was about time: In 2013, af-ter 21 years Dutch road service ANWB Wegenwacht ordered the development of a new clothing line for its 900 emplo-yees. Together with an exter-nal designer Van Puijenbroek Textiel developed modern, safe and strong 14-piece outfit in several cycles of testing and feedback.Production was done at amongst others the VPTex fac-tory in Ilinden, Macedonia.The size of this order was so

impressive that ANWB has placed an info graphic on the website: the total number of

32.000 garments required 37.000 sqm of fabric and 4.700 km of yarn.

Watch the video and check: www.anwb.nlwww.havep.com

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Gevel 2016, from 27 to 29 January in Ahoy, Rotterdam, showcases design and engi-neering solutions for facades. The Dutch company Natuur-gevelsteen will present their natural stone solution at stand number 1A040.Watch the corporate video on youtube and check the cata-logue on issuu.

The Dutch importer of natural stone from Macedonia participates with Natuurgevelsteen in the trade fair for facade design and construction Gevel 2016 in Rottedam.

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On 26 August Mark Lammers, managing director of Dutch Holmak Heatx BV signed a Memorandum of Understand-ing with the Dean of the Fac-ulty of Technology in Bitola, Stojance Nusev.Objective is a long-term co-operation between the faculty and Holmak’s local subsidiary on both theoretical and prac-

Sharing knowledge and enabling students on theoretical and practical level is the focus of Holmak’s co-operation with the University of Bitola.

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Holmak signs MoU with Faculty of Technology Bitola

tical level by engaging scien-tists and developing research projects on the one hand, and offering trainings, internships and master thesis proposals on the other. The knowledge partners also intend to stimu-late sharing experience and contacts through workshops and discussions.

More info: www.holmak.eu

Tehnokoop is ready for its fourth furniture trade show at De Woonindustrie.

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Tehnokoop adjusts to Dutch market

At the spring trade fair at fur-niture showroom centre De Woonindustrie (14.02-17.02) in Nieuwe gein, Tehnokoop will present its la test product line focussed on the Dutch market at showroom no. 2B031.More info: TK-meubels

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In October the local branch of Dutch e-commerce develo-per Tricode was present at the technolgy trade fair Tehnoma in Skopje to present its third “Skopje Tech Meetup” later that month in Piazza Liber-ta. By sharing its knowledge through this series of work-

Both Tricode and InterWorks started to organize workshops to present and discuss novel ties in software development and exchange experiences.

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shops for a wider audience of IT professionals, Tricode pre-sents itself as a dedicated soft-ware developer, while reaching out to potential new staff.The third Meetup on Java-Script, Node.js and Pomodoro attracted about 50 people in a pleasant informal atmosphere.Next Skopje Tech Meetup on OSGi and Continuous Delivery for Open Source Java Projects is scheduled for 4 February at Piazza Liberta.

In December InterWorks host-ed a Tech Meetup in Bitola with four presentations on the sub-jects SCRUM/Agile, SnapLogic integrations, approaches in software testing and QA ser-

vices and Interworks’ skills de-velopment platform FYnderFY.

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The new ambassador met with Dutch managers and visited NL Chamber members to learn about doing business in Macedonia.

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Ambassador meeting with the business community

Within a few days after his ar-rival the new Dutch ambas-sador Wouter Plomp met with CEO and commercial director Wietse Mutters of Pivara Skop-je. Mutters, also president of NL Chamber, is the Heineken representative in the board of this largest brewery of Mace-donia, which is a joint-venture of Heineken and Coca Cola.

great creative couple

Even before the lunch meeting, on 31 August, Plomp was wel-comed by Filimena and Zoran Radonjanin of Feydom. The company develops and pro-duces award-winning design seat and sofas.

Lunch-meeting with Dutch business managers at the residency

Filimena Radonjanin with Ambassador Wouter Plomp at Feydom

impressive tree nursery

On a sunny day early Novem-ber the ambassador met with Joost Michels and was im-pressed by both the beauty and the scale of the 300 ha. conifer tree nursery European Plants near Tetovo.

Ambassador Wouter Plomp with Joost Michels at European Plants

men’s trousers

At Macedonian Garment Indus-try MGI, general manager Mar-cel Melles introduced Plomp to the fine art of producing the perfect pair of men’s trousers.

workwear

Having learnt the basics of garment manufacturing from

business lunch

In his third week, Plomp met for lunch at the resi dency with a group of Dutch busi-ness managers in Macedonia. NL Chamber members Euro-pean Plants, MGI, Vima Fashion and patron member Pivara Skopje, as well as React introduced Plomp to the ins and outs of doing business in Mace donia.

Ambassador Plomp (middle) with Wietse Mutters (left) and production manager Kire Stojanov Melles, the ambassador visi-

ted the producer of HaVeP workwear and protective wear. VPTex Macedonia in Ka-dino is a subsidiary of Royal Van Puijen broek Textiel from Goirle. The occasion was the presence of CEO Rob Kwasp-en. Production manager Alfred Schönbeck and the local man-agement team Dragana Jaki-movska-Uzunovska and Marga Jakimovska-Avramovska guid-ed Plomp around.

Marcel Melles introducing MGI to Ambas sador Wouter Plomp

steel construction

In Mlado Nagoricane near Kumanovo Plomp met with Richard Lieverst, the Dutch owner of steel construction and reinforcement armatures producer Steel Con.The company is part of Gerliko

Ambassador Wouter Plomp with Alfred Schönbeck and Rob Kwaspen at VPTex

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New members Frontwise, Radius Architects and RevelApps

Frontwise Group is a young Dutch company in recruiting that has placed its business process in Skopje and Ohrid, al-ready employing thirty people. The founders have long-term experience in the employment sector and co-founder Gerrit Loopstra has decades of expe-rience with doing business in Macedonia in various sectors. Frontwise Group is not only active in talent acquisition for corporate clients world-wide, but also provides these clients with other HR and IT services as well as marketing and sales support.

Radius Architects was foun ded in 2012 by four architects, pre-viously colleagues at another company. One of their recent projects is to be opened this spring: the new headquarters of ProCredit Bank Macedonia in Skopje.

Group and is producing main-ly for the Dutch market, but also has a few large projects in Serbia. In Macedonia Steel Con has been active as sub-contractor in amongst others the construction of Skender-beg Square.

Frontwise Group

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Radius Architects

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By the end of 2015 a recruiter, an architectural firm, a software developer and a hotel joined NL Chamber.

Third new member is Ravel-Apps, a Dutch-owned develop-er of applications for the hore-ca sector. The main product is Tabletmenukaart with which bars and restaurants have tab-lets with their menu instead of ordinary paper menus. Cus-

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tomers order, pay and rate the services on the tablet.At horeca trade fair Horecava in Amsterdam, Dutch business news channel RTL-Z inter-viewed the RavelApps team: see the video.

Fourth new member is Marriott Hotel Skopje which will open in April. NL Chamber members have been invited for a pre-opening guided tour.See also page 3.

marriott.com/skpmc

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Tidal EnergyMeasuring 5 waterturbines of 230 kW each, the Ooster-schelde tidal power plant is the largest commercial tidal power plant in the world. The plant provides electricity for 1,000 households and was developed by tidal turbines specialist To-cardo and subsea engineer Huisman.Watch the impressive movie on the design and production process as well as the chal-lenging logis tics: youtu.be/n954atnXibE

Quality Circular PolymersSupported by the Dutch go-vernment, French waste pro-cessor Suez and local inves-tors, Quality Circular Polymers invested 35 million EUR in a processing plant for plastic waste leading to high quality recycled polymers. The unique process of separation, clea-ning, sorting and processing uses technologies from various industries and allows unlimi-ted recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for the production of new bottles and other articles. The factory is located at chemi cal innovation park Chemelot in Geleen.

Wine journeyEnd of August a group of Dutch professionals in the wine sec-tor visited Macedonia on a trip to nine wineries, including NL Chamber members Tikves and Stobi.

The blogs of the journey are full of praise, but in Dutch.

See: blog about TikvesSee: blog about Stobi

400 years VopakIn 1616, fourteen years af-ter the foundation of the VOC (Dutch East India Compa-ny), the predecessor of Royal Vopak was established as a storehouse. Nowadays Vopak is the world’s largest company in storing and handling of bulk liquids, with over 80 terminals in 31 countries and a storage capacity of 30 mln m3. High-lighting this remarkable birth-day, Vopak shared “400 sec-onds of creative inspiration”, a compilation of a speech by in-novator Daan Roosegaarde at the Vopak Global Management Meeting. On 22 December Roosegaarde was proclaimed “Hero of the Day” by Macedo-nian radio station ClubFM for his Smog Free Tower which can clean 30,000 m3 of air by attracting positive ions with fine dust particles from the air. Video: youtu.be/JzELB_RlfTs

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About Tikves Winery:“Wow. Great wines and reception of the largest winery of Macedonia.”

About Stobi Winery:“Cabernet sauvignon (beautifully matured with 18 months on wood), syrah, merlot (barrique), petit verdit (deliciously soft and intense) and two blends Aminta and topper Vranec Veritas.”

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Selection of trade fairs in the Netherlands.

NB: All blue text is clickable!

Major trade fairs take place at:

Jaarbeurs, Utrecht99,000 sqm, 13 hallswww.jaarbeurs.nlRAI, Amsterdam87,000 sqm, 11 hallswww.rai.nlAhoy, Rotterdam30,000 sqm, 6 hallswww.ahoy.nl

Regional locations are:

Brabanthallen, ‘s-Hertogenb.29,500 sqm, 6 hallsIJsselhallen, Zwolle17,000 sqm, 4 hallsMECC, Maastricht29,500 sqm, 4 halls

Most fairs in the Netherlands have entrance fees and offer discounts for early registration online.

Please do not hesitate to contact NL Chamber when you plan to visit a fair in the Nether lands.

NL Chamber’s annual calendar also lists a selection of these fairs: nl.mk/latestcalendar

The Netherlands

11-14.01.2016 Horecava and Wine Professional, RAI - Amsterdam 400 food service exhibitors; 100 wine exhibitors12-17.01.2016 Dutch Tourism Expo, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 850 exhibitors; first day for professional visitors only13-15.01.2016 Vakbeurs Facilitair, Brabanthallen - ‘s- Hertogenbosch 400 exhibitors; products/services facility management i.e. maintenance, cleaning, catering, ict, reception etc.20-21.01.2016 BioBeurs, IJsselhallen - Zwolle 350 exhibitors in the sustainable organic food chain24-25.01.2016 Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands27-29.01.2016 Gevel and Material Xperience, Ahoy - Rotterdam products and technology for facade construction materials expo for architects, creative professionals09-10.02.2016 Nederlandse Kerstpakkettenbeurs, Expo - Houten trade fair for christmas packages09-12.02.2016 Integrated Systems Europe, RAI - Amsterdam integrated electronic systems: audio, video, lighting14-17.02.2016 Vakbeurs, De Woonindustrie - Nieuwegein furniture trade fair for showroom users16-18.02.2016 GéPéBé, Autotron - Rosmalen trade fair for christmas packages15-18.03.2016 ESEF, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht engineering and subcontracting 22-24.03.2016 Building Holland, RAI - Amsterdam construction fair12-14.04.2016 Empack and Label&Print Jaarbeurs - Utrecht packaging materials, machines, coding, labelling etc.10-13.05.2016 ISSA/Interclean, RAI - Amsterdam trade fair in professional hygiene24-25.05.2016 World Private Label / PLMA, RAI - Amsterdam european private label producers in food and non-food 3,800 exhibitors, 68 countries, 42 regional pavilions brochure MK pavilion, see: nl.mk/PLMA-brochure14-16.06.2016 GreenTech, RAI - Amsterdam 300 exhibitors in horticulture and floriculture industry10-11.07.2016 Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands15.09.2016 Relatie Z, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 80 exhibitors; relational gifts and christmas packages27.09.2016- VT Wonen & Design Beurs, RAI - Amsterdam02.10.2016 250 exhibitors; consumer fair home interior & design04-07.10.2016 World of Technology&Science, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht Industrial Processing, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 338 exhibitors; automation, electronics, laboratory; dairy industry technology; packaging 04-06.10.2016 Energie, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch 200 exhibitors; energy saving, sustainable energy25-26.10.2016 Offshore Energy Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 650 exhibitors; offshore industry suppliers/contractors23-24.11.2016 Packaging Innovations, Taets Park - Amsterdam high-level event for brand managers, marketeers and packaging specialists21-22.11.2016 World Bulk Wine Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 220 wineries from 19 countries

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