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Korea (+33 per cent) and India
What to see in Nuremberg (+22 per cent) with more than 20

and 40 exhibitors respectively. At
The majority of the products on show are items for dogs and cats, the time of going to press, 73 ex-
accounting for 47 per cent of the total. Products for small animals hibitors were expected from the
and rodents come next (10 per cent), then those for cage birds USA and 15 from Canada. Inter-
and aquatics (8 per cent each). The range of supplementary ar-
zoo will thus be far more inter-
ticles for the pet supplies trade makes up 6 per cent, as do pet national than could have been
food technologies. Products for pets in the garden account for 5 expected a few weeks ago. Dr
per cent, followed by smaller proportions in other segments such Rowena Arzt, head of the trade
as specialist literature and packaging. 105 000 m 2
show division of the WZF, wel-
comes the strong global re-
The range of products at Interzoo covers sponse: “These are extremely is the gross exhibiti-
a huge variety of topics. on area occupied
good numbers considering the
pandemic situation. We are de- by Interzoo
lighted with the considerable in- 2022.
ternational interest in spite of the
pandemic.”

Plenty of visitors expected
As regards visitors, the WZF is ex-
pecting satisfactory attendance
figures. A host of companies from
far away and closer to home are
longing to be able to resume per-
sonal contact with their customers
and business partners. Now that
travel restrictions have been
dropped and thanks to a tried and
tested hygiene concept, Dr Arzt
anticipates visitors from a wide
range of locations: “At previous
as Bunny, Eheim, JBL, Vitakraft 80 per cent of the exhibitors Interzoo events, around a quarter
and Aqua Medic, which will not are from abroad, with Italy, the of visitors were from Germany
be in Nuremberg this time as ex- United Kingdom, the USA, the and three quarters from abroad
hibitors, at any rate not accord- Netherlands and Spain with the – roughly 42 per cent from Eu-
ing to the list at the time of going strongest representation. There rope and slightly more than 30
to press. will be eleven country pavilions, per cent from outside Europe. We
representing Brazil, the UK, India, assume a similar situation at In-
Eleven country pavilions Italy, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, terzoo 2022, although with fewer
The WZF has noted an increase the Czech Republic, the USA and visitors from some European and
in the floor space reserved for France and South Korea, the latter Asian countries due to the situa-
stands from some European two being new additions this year. tion. The significance of Interzoo
countries, for instance from Some of these pavilions have in- as a world-leading international
Turkey (+114 per cent) and from creased in size. fair will remain unaffected by this
Spain (+15 per cent), each with Demand has increased from and the show will offer countless
around 60 exhibitors. More than foreign countries such as South opportunities for international con-

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