Yury Gnedovsky, Honorary President of the Russian Union of Architects:
The history of the exhibition development reflects a process of the glass industry establishment. At first, the Show success was only expected. Today it has become a leading industrial forum. The fact that the Exhibition is held for 13 years running shows that the Glass in Architecture subject continues developing. The present day we have a huge palette of the glass sorts to apply it in different fields. Glass has become a symbol of the modern architecture development, and the exhibition and participation of many companies in it is an evidence of the interest and growth of this subject.
Jan Robertson, Business Development Manager of the Parkinson-Spencer Refractories, Ltd. British company:
We are satisfied with the quality of the exhibition target group. Visitors who came to our booth to negotiate were generally top-managers of their companies able to make a decision.
Vitaly Derivilkov, Director General of the Vitrage Style Stained Glass shop:
Our company takes part in the Mir Stekla exhibition for fourth time. This show was a large-scale one; rather many visitors, and, what is particularly important, they were specialists. There were no casual people. As regards this point as well as many other ones, the Show was organized at the highest professional level. We worked at the Exhibition very fruitfully; all planned tasks were accomplished. Mir Stekla'2011 made only good impressions on us.
Zarina Altynbaeva, Manager on Foreign Economic Activity of the RITSTEKLO Ltd. company:
We have been participating in the Mir Stekla exhibition since 2003. This year everything has passed excellent, without slips. All our companies-partners participated in the Exhibition. They demonstrated their equipment for the glass production, annealing and tempering; glass packaging; silk-screen and hot foil embossing decoration. We carried on all planned business meetings and negotiations. There were many visitors at the Exhibition itself. I suppose the participation in similar shows is necessary to develop companies and improve relations between partners and clients.
Lyudmila Bayazitova, Acting Chief of the Salavatsteklo company Marketing Department:
The effectiveness is very high. During the Exhibition we conducted active business negotiations with our partners and new potential clients as well. At that, there were no practically casual visitors. It confirms high professionalism of the Show organizers enabled to assure a visit of many specialists who had come to the exhibition with specific business demands and proposals. At the Show participants were offered different services including on-line MatchMaking System to make appointments preliminary. It helped us greatly to plan necessary meetings and negotiations in advance.
Oxana Frolova, Business Manager of Spetsmash Ltd.:
This exhibition enables us to carry on a direct dialogue with our customers. It is a golden opportunity to show new models of machines for glass enterprises and demonstrate their advantages. We have a large volume of orders after every such exhibition. Moreover, due to intercourses with our customers at the show we find new solutions for ourselves and apply them to develop new models.
