FIRA DE BARCELONA
| 2013 REPORT
Constant innovation
and attracting leading
shows is one of the
credentials of Fira
Upcoming new events
and congresses
The arrival of new events was announced during
2013. In the sphere of fashion, 2014 will see
the first event of Denim by Première Vision,
benchmark for denim clothing, hosted in Paris
until now. It was also announced that Fira de
Barcelona would organise Barcelona Bridal Week,
featuring the NoviaEspaña show and Pasarela
Gaudí Novias, an international benchmark for the
sector. Another addition to Fira is the Handmade
Festival Barcelona, devoted to different aspects
of handcrafting.
With the aim of bringing in foreign events, it
was accorded to host Passanger Terminal Expo,
specialised in technology and passenger terminal
management, the EWEA Conference, Seatrade
Med, on the industry of cruises, and ELA, devoted
to the automation of bioscience processes.
As it has already been noted, the strategy
of bringing to Barcelona major medical and
technological congresses and events has
continued, and in 2014 we will host another
congress of the European Society of Cardiology,
as well as meetings by major technological
companies. In addition, two events related to
the Mobile World Congress and to Mobile World
Capital Barcelona will be held for the first time:
MPowered Industries and 4FYN, respectively, the
latter related to entrepreneurship.
Tradition and institutional renewal
The General Council of Fira de Barcelona approved
in its July meeting, in accordance with the
mandatory proposal of the Barcelona Chamber of
Commerce, the renewal of the mandate
of the President of the Board of Directors,
Josep Lluís Bonet, and three other ministers