Upcoming EDRA/GHIN Recommended Global Trade Fairs, Shows and Congresses

World Retail Congress

Paris, France

April 16 - 18, 2024

World Retail Congress returns in 2024 with over 800 retail leaders coming together to learn, network and develop strategies for the year ahead and beyond.

The main theme, High Performance Retail, focuses on the traits needed to be truly world-class in today’s retail landscape.

Join the World Retail Congress in 2024 and take away honest lessons from retail’s most inspiring voices whilst connecting with global leaders defining the future of the industry.

10th Global DIY-Summit

Rome, Italy

June 11 – 13, 2024

The Global DIY-Summit is the world's major event where retailers and manufacturers from the home improvement and garden centre industry have the opportunity for an exchange of views of current and future developments within the global market.

The Global DIY-Summit is the jewel in the crown of the EDRA/GHIN and HIMA networking activities. Following on from the most successful 9th Global DIY-Summit in Berlin in 2023 we are looking forward to the next gathering of the industry in Rome, Italy.

spoga+gafa

Cologne, Germany

June 16 – 18, 2024

Even more international, even more diversified, even more visitors! Year after year spoga+gafa impressively demonstrates its standing as the largest garden trade fair in the world. Cologne is the place-to-be for everyone, who wants to make something happen in the garden.

Garden enthusiasts and the top players of the global green industry come together at spoga+gafa. The garden presents itself in all its facets here with fresh ideas and innovations from all over the globe. In addition to plants, of course garden furniture, garden technology and grill equipment can't be missing either.

China International Hardware Show (CIHS)

Shanghai, China

October 21-23, 2024

China International Hardware Show (CIHS) is Asia’s top trade fair for the entire hardware and DIY sectors offering specialist traders and buyers with a comprehensive category of products and services. It is now clearly established as the most influential hardware sourcing fair in Asia after the INTERNATIONAL HARDWRAE FAIR in Cologne.

Taiwan Hardware Show (THS)

Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taiwan

October 23-25, 2024

THS is one of Asia's top trade fairs for the entire hardware and DIY sectors offering specialist traders and buyers with a comprehensive category of products and services. It is Taiwan's biggest and only true B2B hardware show, serving as a trading platform for sourcing and procurement. THS features a complete range of hardware products to showcase world class Taiwan quality, precision and service.

heimtextil

Frankfurt, Germany

January 14-17, 2025

An internationally unique platform for home and contract textiles: from January 14 to 17, 2025, the next Heimtextil will present a global range of product innovations in textile interior design. As the leading global trade fair, it also maps market changes with its focus themes on Interior.Architecture.Hospitality, the range of products for interior designers and hospitality experts, and on the megatrends of sustainability and healthy sleep - and is the most important trend platform for textile materials and textile design.

DOMOTEX

Hannover, Germany

January 16-19, 2025

Exhibitors and visitors from all over the world, four days of business, the latest trends and lifestyle, as well as countless opportunities to take orders ... this is the promise of DOMOTEX – Home of Flooring – that marks the start of the trade’s business year. For a few days Hannover will serve as an international centre for the flooring sector and offer an ideal place for networking and getting business leads.

IPM ESSEN

Essen, Germany

January 28-31, 2025

The world's leading horticultural trade fair revolves around solutions and innovations in the green sector. The International Plant Fair has been held annually for trade visitors at Messe Essen since 1983. Here exhibitors increasingly present products that are sustainable and suitable for climate change. These include heat- and cold-tolerant plant and shrub varieties, environmentally friendly and resource-saving packaging solutions, organic fertilisers and substrates, air-cleaning, easy-to-care for indoor plants and pots made of sustainable and biodegradable materials..

Ambiente, Christmasworld, Creativeworld

Frankfurt, Germany

February 7-11, 2025

New perspectives open up unexpected opportunities. And as the world’s leading consumer goods trade fair, Ambiente reflects the changes in the market and looks towards the future. It shows a unique mix of ideas and products – and provides a major platform for global trends. Out-of-the-ordinary concepts offer inspiration for successful business.

Christmasworld is the leading international trade fair for seasonal decorations and festive decorations, opening up effective design possibilities to surprise customers. For new synergies that offer added value. Every year in Frankfurt, Christmasworld presents the latest products and trends for Christmas and all other festive occasions.

Creativeworld (ending on the 10th) has a unique product portfolio. As a global centre for DIY inspiration, Creativeworld is the ideal B2B industry meeting place for the professional creative community. The next edition of the most important trade fair for the international hobby, craft and artists' supplies sector

ISH

Frankfurt, Germany

March 17-21, 2025

The world’s leading trade fair for HVAC + Water invites you to Frankfurt am Main again from 17 to 21 March 2025.

ISH focuses on modern bathroom design, sustainable heating and air-conditioning technology as well as intelligent home systems. The world’s largest exhibition space for the HVAC sector showcases an array of practical solutions for the most important issues of our time: achievement of climate protection targets, conservation of resources through the use of renewable energies, increasing digitalisation and smart technologies.

National Hardware Show

Las Vegas, USA

March 18 - 20, 2025

Experience the reimagined National Hardware Show! Reconnect with colleagues and peers from all over the world at the one event that unites the industry. Home centers, independent retailers, online retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and everyone in between attend NHS to discover the newest products, innovations and trends that are shaping the future of the home improvement and DIY industry.

EISENWARENMESSE - INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR 2024

Cologne, Germany

March 03-06, 2026

Where did the global hardware industry meet from 3 to 6 March 2024? In Cologne of course – at the EISENWARENMESSE – International Hardware Fair.

The world’s leading trade fair returned to its regular schedule and once again brought together all the key industry players in one place. More than 3,200 exhibitors from all over the world ll presented their latest products and innovations – from tools and accessories to building and DIY supplies, fittings, fixings and fastening technology.

Buyers and retailers were able to experience the latest trends live on site, make valuable contacts, order products and thus create an attractive product range. A top-class event programme with exciting presentations, expert talks and award ceremonies rounded off the offer.

Light + Building 2024

Frankfurt, Germany

March 03-08, 2024

The international meeting place for the lighting and building services technology sector will open again in 2024 on the usual date from 3 to 8 March at the Exhibition Grounds in Frankfurt am Main. The focus will be on lighting trends in all their facets, the electrification and digitalisation of home and building service technology and connected security technology.

The energy transition in the building sector makes a decisive contribution to achieving climate protection goals. Whether energy supply or energy management - the basis for the energy use of the future is the electrification of houses, buildings and urban infrastructure. Light + Building underlines the central importance of electrification with the claim "Be electrified". At the international meeting place for the sector, the focus is on technical innovations to move forward on the path to a sustainable future.