Vietnam int’l furniture, home accessories fair back in HCM City
The Vietnam International Furniture & Home Accessories Fair (VIFA-EXPO 2022) - the biggest and most prestigious trade event for exporting furniture and wooden products in the country – kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on August 31.
HCM City (VNA) – The VietnamInternational Furniture & Home Accessories Fair (VIFA-EXPO 2022) - thebiggest and most prestigious trade event for exporting furniture and woodenproducts in the country – kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on August 31.
Covering 15,000 sq.m, the fair features nearly 1,000booths set up by nearly 200 domestic and foreign businesses, of which 34 areforeign.
Dang Quoc Hung, Director of HAWA Corporation, the organiser of the event, said the enterprises bring to the event diverseproducts, along with machines and components in service of the industry.
Within the framework of the fair, there will beworkshops on materials sources and digital application in export-import activities withthe participation of experts and representatives from associations andbusinesses.
VIFA-EXPO 2022, the first offline fair of thedomestic furniture and wood industry after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19pandemic, will last until September 3.
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A booth at the exhibition (Photo: VNA) 
