20 November 2005

Zaun Limited recently exhibited at the International Building and Materials Exhibition ‘BATIMAT’ in Paris. Lasting for 6 days, the exhibition is one of the largest of its type in the world, and gives companies from all aspects of the internal and external environments the opportunity to showcase their products.

“We have been operating in France for some time now and have an established office in Paris that deals with the French side of the business” says Paul Painter, Zaun’s Director Sales and Finance, who himself is fluent in French.

“The BATIMAT exhibition is enormously popular and for this reason we decided that it would be the ideal place to showcase our products in the French market. Over the six days buyers of all nationalities showed a very encouraging amount of interest in our products. In particular, our ornate styles of fencing were particularly well received, and it was indicated to us that this is an area in which French fencing suppliers and manufacturers are perhaps not meeting the demand of the architects and specifiers, providing in the main only functional perimeter systems.”

The Zaun stand was also benefited by the presence of Graeme Lightbody, contender for the ‘keepie-uppie’ football record, who entertained visitors around the stand and the exhibition in general with his skills with a football. “This is the second event we have brought Graeme to in order to raise the profile of our range of sports fencing” said Paul. “He’s a great character and is happy to answer questions from visitors to the stand.

All in all, the exhibition was very worthwhile. We made a large number of solid contacts and will be booking again for the next exhibition in 2007”.