From left to right: Francesca Donati, Head of International Marketing for Asia at BolognaFiere Cosmoprof; Enrico Zannini, General Manager BolognaFiere Cosmoprof; Margaret Ma Connolly, President and CEO Informa Markets Asia; Janice Lee, Vice President Informa Markets Asia.
Exhibitor numbers at the Cosmoprof Asia show are up 4% to 2,806 compared with 2025, Janice Lee, Vice President Informa Markets Asia said at a press conference today.
The Cosmoprof Asia show is taking place this week in Hong Kong.
More than 90% of exhibitors hail from outside Hong Kong. There are five new country pavilions this year: Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, South Africa and the UK.
Margaret Ma Connolly, President and CEO Informa Markets Asia, said visitor pre-registration numbers are up more than 30% year-on-year, with visitors from the Philippines nearly doubling. Visitors from Indonesia are up over 65%, from Malaysia up 36% and those from the UAE up by more than 125%. Janice Lee, Vice President Informa Markets Asia, told BW Confidential that more than 90% of visitors at Cosmopack yesterday were international and visitors from the Middle East and Central Asia grew by 150%.
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