Source International (Si), the global sourcing and supply chain management trade fair, opened Sunday at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York.

The show serves the North American sewn products market and is designed to bring together the total supply chain of the worldwide footwear, leather goods, luggage, leather apparel and components industries.

More than 300 exhibitors from 24 countries spanning Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Scandinavia are taking part in the exhibition, which comprises three vertically integrated shows, made up of material, technology and fashion exhibitors.

Si draws suppliers and vendors from every sector of the supply chain, the organisers said. These include companies that create technologies for managing the complex logistics in the process of changing raw materials into finished products.

The show’s first sale of the day took place just half an hour when a Canadian company signed a contract with a Chinese company.

Michael Kazakoff , vice president of CMP Princeton Inc, the organisers of the sourcing fair said: “This show is mainly about making contacts, not signing contracts, so we are very pleased to see business being done on the exhibition floor. The show is really bringing the world’s suppliers and vendors to the market place.”  Si will closes today at 4 pm.

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