OREANDA-NEWS. On 12 March 2008 was announced, that an International Specialized Exhibition EuroShop 2008 protected by EHI Retail Institute took place in Germany from February 23 till February 27, 2008.

EuroShop is rightly called the event #1 for the retail industry, though the exhibition is held just once in three years. More than 1800 companies from 50 countries exhibited on gross floor space over 100,000mІ. An overview of the most important trends in trade was offered to visitors, in view of the changes that constantly occur in the world.

“SystemGroup” an International Group of companies provides a full range of services to create solutions for the automation of business process, collaborates with multinational corporations and national leaders of industry, consistently maintains a high expert level of its employees and regularly attends EuroShop.

Over the past 3 years powerful retail chains that can make a significant contribution to the Ukrainian market retailers have grown  up in all regions of Ukraine. 

Lilia Orlovskaya, the head of the group SI in the "Food" direction of SystemGroup Ukraine, regularly visits the exhibition with a delegation of SystemGroup, she has shared her impressions: "EuroShop needs no advertising , the Event always arouse a vital interest in Europe, EuroShop is a possibility to see innovations, new solutions and equipment. At EuroShop suppliers have presented not only existing solutions, but solutions of the future. For example DIGI has presented a full range of solutions, not just the usual weights for us, but also a variety of innovations - electronic brochures, POS systems. I would like to note that at all exhibitors have  made  very informative and high-quality presentations of their solutions".

Compared to previous exhibitions a distinctive feature of EuroShop 2008 was the format of event. These changes met the latest market trends. EuroShop 2008 united under one roof four segments:
EuroConcept - complex and conceptual solutions and equipment for the trade.
EuroSales - everything for the sales.
EuroCIS - innovative technology for retail in the domain of technology for communication, information and security.
EuroExpo - design, renovation and construction of exhibition space.

Indeed EuroShop 2008 is a mixture of integrity and dynamism of the world's Retail, that stimulats participants to innovations.

Olga Yarmolenko, the expert of POS group of SystemGroup Ukraine said: "Professionals always have to master new trends and techniques to create new shopping centres and supply them. And in this context exhibition EuroShop 2008 opens up new opportunities to get better experience on the planning, construction and equipping of facilities and trade promotes professional exchange between the Ukrainian and Western retail".