The vendors application form is now open for the World Tea Trade Fair, which will be held on 7th – 10th November in the World Tea Festival 2019.
The World Tea Trade Fair is the great opportunity to sell your specialty teas, to meet prominent business persons in global tea industry, to share the information worldwide, to exchange the information & opinion among international tea businesses, to obtain business insights, to develop new value chain and so on.
In the previous fair in the World Tea Festival 2016, 122 companies participated and over 110,000 people visited the festival, according to the report of the festival office.
The application form and participation guideline can be downloaded in the below link.
The Vendors Application Form for the World Tea Trade Fair
* Please right-click the link and save the pdf file from the link. The direct click results in an error because of the interactive pdf form.
The Participation Guideline for the World Tea Trade Fair
If you would like to apply, please fill the application form and send it to the office of World Tea Festival 2019 (wof@pref.shizuoka.lg.jp) by e-mail.
In the case that the application form cannot be filled, please send the required information as follow to the official e-mail address.
There are some types of booth as follows.
Type – M1
Place : The Hall of “Sea” on the ground floor in “Granship”
Size : 3m x 3m
Fee : 143,000 yen
A scene of the World Tea Trade Fair on the previous time in the Hall “Umi (Sea)” in the Granship.
The image of one booth size.
Type – M3
Place : The lobby on the 3rd floor in “Granship”
Size : 3m x 3m
Fee : 121,000 yen
An image of the booth type M3 on the 3rd floor in Granship.
Type – S1
Place : The outdoor square in front of “Granship”
Size : 3.6m x 2.7m
Fee : 99,000 yen
<Notes for the application>
Exhibitors can sell only tea and tea-related products on the booths above in the festival.
As for the details for payment and restrictions of exhibition, please contact to the office.
The World Tea Festival can bring great opportunities to meet prominent business persons in tea industry. I could meet Mr. Kawaguchi of “Shinkoju” and Florent Weugue of “Thes du Japon” in the previous time. The nice meet provided me with further opportunities, for example, I could learn a lot about Gyokuro from Florent in the Gyokuro seminar held by Mr. Kawaguchi in Shinkoju, and recently I could hold a tea event with my tea mates, where Mr. Kawaguchi demonstrated various teas steeping with proper explanation as an invited instructor of Japanese specialty teas..
Besides, vendors may communicate with some prominent professionals who participate the international conference of tea industry held with the festival. I heard that the conference office invites 2 notables, Katharine P. Burnett, who is the Professor in UC-Davice and the director of “Global Tea Initiative” and Manuja Peiris, who is the Chief Executive of the International Tea Committee.
In the previous conference held in 2016, 5 prominent tea professionals were gathered from all over the world.
A schene of the World Green Tea Conference in the World Tea Festival 2016.
Speakers in the World Green Tea Conference. Prof. Horiguchi, the president of Shizuoka Industrial University. Peter F. Goggi, the president of the American Tea Association. Yasuharu Matsumoto, the vice president of Obubu Tea Farm Co. Ltd., Louise Roberge, the president of the Tea and Herbal Association of Canada. Kaison Chang, the former secretary general of FAO-IGG. 劉仲華, the president of Hunan Agricultural University. (From left to right)
I hope more tea businesses will join the fair and participants & visitors will be able to exchange the worthy information and insightful opinions. Of course, I’m eager to discuss with the participants and visitors.