THE LEADER OF EXHIBITION BUSINESS OF UKRAINE   KYIV INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT FAIR, LTD     General Director: Volodymyr A. Ivanov     Main activities directions – organization and conduction of international and specialized exhibitions, business meetings, companies’ presentations, conferences and seminars, advertising campaigns, marketing researches, projecting and design of expositions and exclusive stands.     KYIV INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT FAIR, LTD has been working on the Ukrainian market of exhibition services since 1994.     The company is the leader of the exhibition business in Ukraine, and has high international professional rating.   Member of authoritative international and Ukrainian unions and organizations:       Global Association of Exhibition Industry (UFI) International Exhibition Statistics Union (CENTREX) Confederation of Organizers of Packaging Exhibitions (COPE) Exhibition Federation of Ukraine Ukrainian National Committee of International Chamber of Commerce and other organizations.   The characteristic features of Kyiv International Contract Fair, LTD are: high professionalism in the sphere of exhibition organization; considerable exhibition business experience; scientific and practical approach towards solving actual tasks of exhibition business; utilization of effective marketing technologies; research and constant analysis of development of the country’s present market and its separate segments.           Many exhibitions held by the company have become the exhibition brands with no analogs in Ukraine and being widely known abroad.   Some of the exhibitions  held by KYIV INTENATIONAL CONTRATC FAIR, LTD have been granted the high status of the UFI approved event, among them: BUILDING & ARCHITECTURE (now INTERBUDEXPO), KYIV INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FORUM, KYIV FASHION, Food Expo, Pack Fair, InterAGRO, Jeweller Expo, Restaurant Expo.   The range of the exhibitions, their high rating, professional level of preparation and conduction secures traditional interest of the foreign companies towards the exhibitions. Among our partners there are exhibition companies from Germany, Poland, Turkey, Italy, France and other countries.           Within the frames of the exhibitions, business forums, seminars, presentations, best products and services competitions, workshops and other events are held. Leading professionals, potential investors, representatives of the governmental authorities and mass media from Ukraine and abroad are participating in the exhibitions. The company organizes about 50 international and specialized exhibitions every year. Over 4,000 exhibitors participate in the exhibitions, which are attended by more than 200,000 visitors every year. The number and range of the exhibitions is growing from year to year, topics being widened and new projects initiated.   The company is actively working on improving the professional level of exhibitions organization and the range of exhibition services provided, paying attention to individual work with potential exhibitors and their clients in order to improve effectiveness of participating in the exhibitions and other related events.   Visitor and exhibitor surveys, monitoring of similar competing exhibitions inside Ukraine and exhibition events abroad, the “Business Contact” program of organizing individual business meetings with participants’ potential partners and clients, and other events – all of them are aiming at increasing the effectiveness of our exhibitions.