Expo provides global platform to promote Omani products

Muscat: Oman’s biggest exhibition for building, construction and interior design, helps to showcase local products in an international platform, says the exhibitors of The Big Show.
“Basically, it will help us to promote our brand and our name in this exhibition,” Haroon Rasheed of Reema Building Materials told ‘Times of Oman’. “We have all the building materials items with us. especially we are specialised in gypsum ceiling and flooring products,” he added.
Brands like Greelam- new Mika Miksa, Wonderfloor- flooring solutions, USG Boral- Gypsum and Drywall, Visaka- Cement fibre boards are available with Reema Building Materials.
According to Rasheed, they are in the Omani market for the last seven years. “Exhibitions are always there to showcase the productivity and products of the companies,” another exhibitor said. “But here we have a good exhibition because not only it is equipped well but also the quality of the companies here are excellent,” he added.
“Selection of the companies from different countries is excellent and it shows these companies are interested to be in the local market,” he continued.
The 13th edition of The BIG Show was officially opened by Dr Rasheed bin Al Safi Al Huraibi, chairman of the Tender Board here on Monday. After receiving a record-breaking 15,000 visitors in the 2015 edition, the event organiser Omanexpo expects this number to surpass this year.
According to the organisers, Kuwait has a pavilion for the first time in Oman for any exhibition. Apart from the Kuwait pavilion, visitors will also see various products featured in the Germany, Turkey, Iran, China, Egypt and India pavilions.
According to the German ambassador to Oman, the selection of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Germany is excellent. “I think the selection of the German companies is exquisite example how SMEs are interested in Oman and they are seeing a future here,” the German ambassador told ‘Times Business’.
Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), which is participating for the first time, will bring in 25 companies from India. Visitors can get familiar with more than 1,000 products from 250 local and international companies.
New and innovative products and technology from the ceramic and marble, doors and windows, kitchen and bathroom, interior design, HVAC, water technologies, pools and spa, construction tools and equipment, steel, concrete and cement, and wood and woodworking machinery segment will also be featured in the exhibition.
“Despite current economic challenges, the exhibition has maintained 15 per cent growth in terms of exhibitor participation and exhibition space,” said Fehmi Ouaja, exhibition manager. The four-day exhibition will end on March 31. Exhibition will be open to visitors from 4pm to 10pm.