Overview
A multi-hall furniture exhibition bringing together manufacturers, exporters and retail buyers from across India under one roof.
Position FIFEX as India's definitive finished-furniture sourcing event, giving over 400 exhibitors a floor plan that converted footfall into serious buyer conversations rather than casual browsing.
Venue
Thrissur Exhibition Grounds — four exhibition halls across 2.5 lakh sq. ft.
Technology & production
- Modular hall rigging
- RFID registration
- Digital wayfinding signage
- Live footfall dashboards
Time-lapse hall build and a same-day highlight reel from the show floor.
Challenges
- Coordinating simultaneous move-in for 400+ exhibitors across four halls within a 48-hour build window.
- Structural load and fire-safety certification for large custom furniture displays inside a temporary hall structure.
- Managing daily footfall exceeding 20,000 visitors without bottlenecking entry and registration.
Planning
- Hall allocation modelled against expected exhibitor category and buyer walk patterns, not just stall count.
- A single-window exhibitor help desk set up six weeks ahead of move-in to handle logistics queries early.
- Fire safety, structural certification and municipal approvals cleared a full month before doors opened.
Execution
- A dedicated operations desk ran exhibitor move-in across a rotating 48-hour shift plan with zero missed slots.
- RFID-based registration counters processed trade visitors in under 90 seconds per entry.
- An on-ground rapid-response team handled power, signage and stall issues within a 15-minute SLA throughout the show.
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Results
400+
Exhibitors
85,000
Trade visitors
4
Exhibition halls
78%
Repeat exhibitor rate
“XES runs FIFEX like a single machine even with four halls and hundreds of exhibitors moving at once. The operations desk alone is worth the partnership.”
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