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                                      Welcome back



                                      to Interzoo





                                      Eager anticipation abounds in the pet sector: after an absence

                                      of four years due to the coronavirus, the world-leading Interzoo
                                      fair will finally resume as a live event from 24 to 27 May in
                                      Nuremberg.



                                      The organiser, the Wirtschaftsge-  its consequences, however, the   trade show digitally, however.
                   11                 meinschaft Zoologischer Fach-  numbers are not really compa-  The Ukraine war has also had an
                                      betriebe (WZF), expects around
                                                                                             impact on the pet sector’s lead-
                                                                 rable; China is currently finding
                                      1 300 exhibitors from over 60   it difficult to control the latest   ing global fair: when this issue
              country pavilions       countries. This is a substantially   Omicron variant of the corona-  went to press, the WZF had five
               are expected at        smaller number than in 2018,   virus, and so few Chinese com-  exhibitors down to attend from
                  Interzoo.           when the exhibitor figure came   panies are likely to venture from   Ukraine, but none from Russia.
                                                                 the Far East to Interzoo this year.
                                                                                             There are also some well-known
                                      close to the 2 000 mark at 1
                                      989. Due to the pandemic and   Some of them may follow the   companies from Germany, such


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