BASELWORLD once again clearly confirmed its leading position as worldwide event for the watch and jewellery industry. The greatest World Watch and Jewellery Show closed just over a week ago after eight overwhelmingly successful days.
The 2,197 exhibiting companies coming from 45 nations expressed their total satisfaction after having received about 89,700 visitors (+0.4 %) from all over the world.

At the 33rd World Watch and Jewellery Show BASELWORLD, watch and jewellery manufacturers as well as representatives of the related supporting industry exhibited their exclusive world novelties and high-quality collections in Basel over the past eight days. A record number of 2,352 journalists from all five continents reported on the event.

Once more high levels of business for the exhibitors

Highest satisfaction as in the previous year prevailed throughout the exhibition’s closing amongst the exhibiting companies. The business transactions and turnovers realized during BASELWORLD can be called extremely satisfying. “An excellent year! It ran the best way possible. Once again exhibitors at BASELWORLD have proven their strength in innovation and creativity”, said Jacques J. Duchêne, President of the Exhibitor’s Committee.

With a further improved quality of its product presentations, BASELWORLD clearly confirmed its leading position as the
worldwide event for the luxury goods industry. For the exhibiting companies and some 89,700 visitors (+0.4% compared to 2004) coming from 100 nations, BASELWORLD 2005 once again successfully fulfilled its task as the internationally leading platform for the watch and jewellery industry. “We had very good contacts. The quality of our visitors increased again,” assured Robert Stern from H. Stern Jewellers. For François Thiébaud, President of the Swiss Exhibitors’ Committee, BASELWORLD was a tremendous success: “The dream world of watches and jewellery becomes reality in Basel. The variety stimulates new emotional values for the consumer. We have been able to make good business transactions. The relevance of BASELWORLD is underlined by the fact, that more than 90% of Switzerland’s watch producers are represented here.”

The Hall of Elements met all expectations

The newly fashioned Hall of Elements, in which all important gem and pearl traders were present, attracted most interest amongst the visitors. During BASELWORLD, Basel became the centre of the worldwide diamonds, gemstones and pearls trade. For Marc David from David & Son, BASELWORLD is the world’s most important exhibition: “Basel is a must. We have observed a high level of purchasing enthusiasm and we are very satisfied with the quality of the visitors as well as the exhibition as a whole.”

For the exhibitors in the Hall of Elements, the pronounced value improvement of the gemstones and pearls segment within the World Watch and Jewellery Show offered clear advantages. “This year we are present with a new and larger stand. BASELWORLD is for us of worldwide significance, as we can meet here our most important customers. I’m rating this year’s exhibition very high”, confirms Raj Mehta, Senior Vice-President of Rosy Blue.

“The only really important international exhibition”

In the jewellery sector also, most exhibitors were extremely satisfied. Highly satisfied Christoph Wellendorff, the German jewellery producer states as follows: “Wellendorff is already present in Basel since more than 30 years. But BASELWORLD 2005 has beaten all records – sales were outstanding. For us, this exhibition is the only one with international importance.”

A positive end result could also be reported for the exhibitors in the National Pavilions. Lore Buscher, Regional Director of Central & Eastern Europe from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) states, that “BASELWORLD is a very important exhibition for Hong Kong’s representatives of watches and jewellery. Within the segment of watches a very satisfactory level of orders has been reached. The order intake increased with 20 - 30 % compared to the previous year.”

Also high satisfaction amongst the visitors

A representative survey research amongst visitors also showed a high level of satisfaction. 95% of the interviewed people considered BASELWORLD to be an absolute “must” and 98% rated this year’s World Watch and Jewellery Show as good, very good or excellent.

Record breaking number of journalists

A record number of 2,352 accredited journalists underlined once more the importance of BASELWORLD to the global luxury goods industry. Numerous important specialized magazines, hundreds of lifestyle magazines, daily newspapers and online-media from around the world as well as numerous television stations reported during the 8 days of BASELWORLD on the exhibited products and novelties.

BASELWORLD Panel

The internal exhibition arbitral BASELWORLD Panel always achieves a valid contribution to the protection of intellectual property during the World Watch and Jewellery Show.

This time, the Panel established violations of rights in a range of patterns, models, trademarks and patents in 16 cases. Thus the number of treated cases and decisions remained at the constant low level compared with earlier years.

The tremendous economic importance of BASELWORLD

For the region of Basel and Switzerland as a whole, the World Watch and Jewellery Show is of tremendous economic importance. The economic effect of BASELWORLD on the supply industry (hotels, restaurants, stand building, catering, travel, logistic, etc.) is estimated to average 1 Billion CHF. Along with some 89,700 visitors, about 30,000 persons were present as stand personal in Basel. During the building up and dismantling more than 30,000 people were busy. Around 800,000 overnight accommodations were booked due to this event.

BASELWORLD 2006

The World Watch and Jewellery Show BASELWORLD 2006 will be held in the Halls of Basel Exhibition from March 30 to April 6 2006.


BASELWORLD – World Watch and Jewellery Show

Date 2005:March 31 to April 7 2005
Date 2006:March 30 to April 6 2006
Location:Basel Exhibition Centre
Organizer:MCH Basel Exhibition Ltd.,
a subsidiary of MCH Swiss Exhibition Ltd.
Internet:www.baselworld.com
Email:[email protected]

Number of visitors 200589,700
Number of exhibitors 20052,197
Accredited journalists 20052,’352
Gross exhibition area 2005160,000m2
Net exhibition area 2005110,812m2


Source: www.baselworld.com

Contact: [email protected]

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