| By CMP, CPhi - Netherlands |
| Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
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Staged in Frankfurt (30 Sept. – 2 Oct.), CPhI 2008 passed the key milestone of 25,000 attendees (subject to audit) for the first time. With the ICSE contract services and P-MEC pharma machinery and equipment events, the exhibitions form the world’s largest pharmaceutical ingredients and services event. |
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Numbering a combined total of over 1,700 exhibitors, the events had an
attendance 30% up on the city’s previous hosting, in 2003.
New features at the exhibitions included daily, 75-minute Breakfast Briefings on key industry topics and the launch of new digital platforms that extend CPhI into a 24/7 information brand. Notable are CPhI’s new gateway website
www.wherepharmameets.com; WPMTV – the news station for the
pharmaceutical industry and the What’sNewInPharma weekly e-newsletter.
Numbering a combined total of over 1,700 exhibitors, the events had an attendance 30% up on the city’s previous hosting, in 2003.
New features at the exhibitions included daily, 75-minute Breakfast Briefings on key industry topics and the launch of new digital platforms that extend |
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CPhI into a 24/7 information brand. Notable are CPhI’s new gateway website wherepharmameets.com; WPMTV – the news station for the
pharmaceutical industry and the What’s New In Pharma weekly e-newsletter.
To mark the increasing focus on biotech as a key driver in pharma products BioPh
– Bio Solutions for Pharma was launched to take ICSE’s Biotech Zone to the next level. It also provides a focus for the accelerating convergence of pharma and biotech business models in the unrivalled networking space offered by CPhI.
The new ICSE Speakers’ Corner was a marked success, with 26 presentations during the event - and fresh from its successful South American debut in August, P-MEC Europe informed industry professionals of new developments in
pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The events closed with positive feedback from exhibitors and strong booking levels for 2009. CPhI Event Director Annemieke Timmers commented: “Feedback
to this edition of CPhI Worldwide has been very strong - with positive comments on the venue and the high quality of visitors and their enquiries”. And she added: “To evolve CPhI into a true 24/7 informa- -tion service brand, we have been planning the extension into digital for |
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some time.
The new digital platforms, including WPM TV and the WNIP e-newsletter will ensure that the
brands add daily content value, as well as remaining the annual meeting place for the industry”.
The information theme is being complemented by the new series of CPhI Conferences. Following the first two in Spring/Summer, five further events are being staged in the UK and Germany before year-end.
Next year’s twentieth CPhI Worldwide, with ICSE, BioPh and P-MEC, returns to
Spain’s popular Feria de Madrid, which first hosted the exhibitions in 2005. Dates
will be Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 October. See: CphI Website,
ICSE Website and PMEC Website.
Coming next in the events family are CPhI India - with P-MEC India and ICSE
India - at the end of November. A combined 600 exhibitors and 26,000 attendees
are expected in Mumbai.
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