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FIBO to increase space for wellness sector
At the coming FIBO trade show, taking place on April 13-16 in Cologne, the world of wellness and spas will get more space alongside the established big fitness industry players. A new meeting point spa & wellness in hall 8 will offer exhibition space as well as an agenda of ...
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The biggest dates in the sports and outdoor industry this year
Our calendar has the biggest industry dates this year and all the dates you need to plan your sports and outdoor gear social media campaign.
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FIBO is back and the fitness industry is moving again
51,270 visitors attended the world’s largest fitness trade show, FIBO in Cologne, from April 7 to 10, according to the organizers. Internationally, the show was able to attract experts from 109 countries, including Italy, Spain, France, the U.K. and Poland, South Africa, Australia and Brazil, and from Israel and the ...
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FIBO presents winners of the Innovation & Trend Awards 2022
Six categories, seven winners: for the first time, there was a tie in one category at the FIBO Innovation & Trend Awards 2022. The winners were announced during the European Health and Fitness Forum, which saw a high face-to-face attendance after two years of absence due to the pandemic. Here ...
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FIBO 2022 holds on to April event in Cologne
The organizers of FIBO are committed to a return to normality in 2022. After a two-year absence, the global fitness show is to return as a physical show on April 7-10 in Cologne, Germany, with” the best possible health and safety protection for all attendees,” Koelnmesse says. One day before ...
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FIBO postponed to April 2022
After the Covid-related rescheduling of the international fitness trade show FIBO from June to November, the team of organizer Reed Exhibitions (RX) has decided to postpone the show again and move it to spring, the original FIBO season. Consequently, it will be held again on a rotational basis in 2022, ...
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European gyms felt the pinch in 2020, but EuropeActive is optimistic
European fitness clubs were forced to shut down during multiple lockdown periods in 2020, in some cases for between 40 and 50 percent of the operational days, and this caused a major dip in attendance after decades of continuous growth. According to a new report by EuropeActive, compiled as usual ...
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ISPO works on a B2B fitness show for Nov. 18-20
The ISPO Group is organizing a new international B2B event for the fitness sector at its Munich fairgrounds, to be held on Nov. 18-20. While it will feature exhibition stands, limited to 250 square meters in size, it is shaping up more and more as a high-level international convention with ...
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FIBO 2021 postponed to November
FIBO, the international fitness trade show originally scheduled for June 24-27, has been postponed to Nov. 4-7, taking place as usual in Cologne, Germany. The show will be covering member and customer acquisition and re-acquisition, digitalization, technology and e-commerce, market developments, trends and social changes. Like the previous one, this ...
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FIBO extends its partnership with EuropeActive for three more years
FIBO, the International Trade Show for Fitness, Wellness and Health, has announced a three-year extension of its partnership with EuropeActive, which is aimed at promoting growth across the entire ecosystem of the fitness and physical activity sector. Notably, FIBO will continue to participate in the funding of the “European Health ...
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Fibo is shifted from April to June
Because of the current development of the Covid-19 epidemic, Reed Exhibitions has decided to move the dates of next year’s Fibo trade show from April 8-11 to June 24-27. The postponement of the leading international trade fair for fitness, wellness and health should create more planning security for ...
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Fibo holds four digital events
Since the end of last month, Fibo has held four events: the European Health & Fitness Forum (EHFF), FIBO@business and FIBO@home from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 and the FIBO Shopping Week on Oct. 4-11. All have been, for the first time, digital. Together they have drawn more than 4,500 ...
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A virtual Fibo show for professionals and consumers
This year’s Fibo will be an entirely virtual-event, staged on Oct. 1-3 on two different websites for professionals and consumers. Professionals are being invited to the world’s largest fitness and wellness trade show on FIBO@business, including an online edition of the European Health & Fitness Forum and other international conventions ...
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October Fibo will be for the trade only
Fibo will take place as planned in Cologne at the beginning of October, but only as trade show, without the usual large attendance by the general public. It will be held from Thursday Oct. 1 to Saturday Oct. 3, eliminating the traditional Sunday opening for consumers. As usual, the European ...
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More fairs are cancelled
The Covid-19 pandemic is leading to the cancellation of more and more events because of the need for social distancing. In some cases, organizers are planning or exploring alternative formats that take advantage of the more or less sophisticated tools offered by the internet for the presentation of new products, ...
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Fibo’s event director joins EuropeActive’s board
At its general assembly this month – held online to comply with Covid-19 quarantine – EuropeActive appointed Silke Frank, event director for the fitness trade show Fibo, to its board of directors. Frank joins Alfonso Jiménez of Ingesport Go Fit, Jennifer Halsall of Basic-Fit International and Ana Damaso of Portugal ...
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New dates for Fibo and IWA, no fair in France
March 9, 2020 - We have already reported about the cancellation of Ispo Beijing. Three other big international fairs, Fibo in Cologne, IWA Outdoor Classics in Nuremberg and Prowinter in Bolzano, announced a few days ago the postponement of their events. Two of them have now communicated their new dates. ...