During the year 2011 for the first time 30 companies from Bulgaria will gain the opportunity to take part in a trade exhibition of Bulgarian products and services in Sardinia, Italy.
This year the trade exhibition will take part within three days – 4, 5 and 6 Nov 2011 – in EX LICEO ARTISTICO, Piazza Dettori n.9, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (see photo below)
“Bulgaria in Sardinia” will be an annual trade exhibition, which will become thematic as of 2012 and its different sessions will have a focus on different economic sectors. The organizers will create the possibility for several different thematic issues per year, depending on demonstrated potential and interest for commercial contacts.
In its beginning – for the 2011 issue - the trade exhibition will be open to representatives of all economic sectors, who are interested and willing to present their products and services on the territory of the island of Sardinia.
The exhibition venue for 2011 - be equipped with exhibition stands and entirely at the disposal of the participating Bulgarian companies - can comfortably host up to 30 exhibitors.
Through participation in the exhibition you will receive:
An exhibition booth for presentation of your products or services during the three days of the event.
A possibility for presentation within the program of the exhibition (up to 20 minutes).
Interpretation from/to English and from/to Italian.
Accommodation at a 3* hotel in the historic part of Cagliari.
Inclusion in a catalogue, which will be disseminated among all visitors of the exhibition.
And the most important, an opportunity for implementing partnership and trade contacts with companies from Sardinia.
The Bulgarian exhibition in Sardinia will be promoted by:
Laore Sardegna – Regional agriculture and rural development agency
Camera di Commercio di Cagliari
Confindustria – industrial confederation
Confcommercio – the Italian united confederation of enterprises, professional activities and individual entrepreneurship
Regione Sardegna
Provincia di Cagliari
Commune di Cagliari
Local press and TV
How to participate:
Download registrationform–contract for participation in the exhibition, get acquainted with its conditions and send it filled in, certified and scanned via email to staneva@renewco.bg by 20.09.2011.
Some facts for Sardinia region:
- The island of Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean.
- It enjoys approximately 300 sunny days annually and is one of the most expensive tourist destinations in Italy and EU.
- The economic conditions on the island of Sardinia are predetermined by the optimal geographic positioning of the island.
- Most vigorous economic development is demonstrated by the provinces of Cagliari and Sassari.
- According to Eurostat, the gross internal product of the island of Sardinia has been growing steadily and in 2009 it equals €20,627 per capita.
- Agriculture is still the leading sector, especially with regard to livestock breeding (intensified cheese production). Farming is highly modernized and best developed in the Campidano plain – vegetables, citrus and rice, while Sardinian wines are famous for their taste.
- There are traditions in the mining industry, but it is restricted to coal (Carbonia, Bacu Abis), antimony (Villasalto), gold (Furtei), bauxite (Olmedo) and lead and zinc (Iglesiente, Nurra). The granite extraction represents one of the most flourishing industries in the northern part of the island.
- The Gallura granite district is composed of 260 companies that work in 60 quarries, where 75% of the Italian granite is extracted.
- The cork district, in the northern part of the Gallura region, around Calangianus and Tempio Pausania, is composed of 130 companies and has become the driver of Sardinian economic development. Every year in Sardinia 200,000 quintals of cork are carved, and 40% of the end products are exported.
- Fishing along the coasts is also an important activity on the island. Portoscuso tunas are exported worldwide, but primarily to Japan.
- The principal industries are chemicals (Porto Torres, Cagliari, Villacidro, Ottana), petrochemicals (Porto Torres, Sarroch), metalworking (Porto Scuso, Porto Vesme, Villacidro), cement (Cagliari), pharmaceutical (Sassari), shipbuilding (Arbatax, Olbia, Porto Torres), oil rig construction (Arbatax), and food (sugar refineries at Villasor and Oristano, dairy at Arborea, Macomer and Thiesi, fish factory at Olbia).
- The local craft industries include rugs, jewellery, textile, lacework, basket making, and coral.
- The Sardinian economy is today focused on the overdeveloped tertiary sector (67.8% of employment), with commerce, services, information technology, public administration and especially on tourism, which represents the main industry of the island with about 3000 active companies and around 200,000 rooms. In 2008 the airports of the island registered 11,896,674 passengers.
