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Israeli pavilion at HKTDC to be the largest on the show

29 december 2014

The Israeli pavilion at the Hong Kong International Diamond, Gem & Pearl Show (HKTDC) is going to be the largest pavilion hosted at the event. Besides, it is going to be the largest in the Israel Diamond Institute (IDI) history.
The representatives of Outsmart International Hong Kong that organizes all the pavilion layouts at the show have arrived at Israel to discuss all the details with Israeli companies. There is a full team of pavilion designers to plan and decorate each of the company sections at the show.
Nissim Palomo, the head of IDI marketing department, noted that this year 120 Israeli companies will take part in the Hong Kong show, the area needed to host all of them is amounted to more than 1600 sq. meters. Last year 117 diamond and gem companies from Israel occupied the area of 1500 sq. meters.
The atmosphere at the last year's HKTDC was described by Israeli participants as "positive". This year the event will be hosted at Wanchai convention centre on March 2-6, 2015.

Theodor Lisovoy, Rough&Polished, Moscow