Big Sourcing Show Headed for Miami Beach
Frank Yuan, the organizer of the ASAP Global Sourcing Show, is heading east to organize an international sourcing show in Miami Beach next year.
Yuan is pairing up with Material World, the annual trade show held at the Miami Beach Convention Center, to organize a global pavilion of Asian and African apparel and textile manufacturers that will complement Material World’s Latin American pavilion. The next Material World is March 16-18, 2005.
“All my exhibitors requested me to bring them to that kind of market,” Yuan said. “Material World will be perfect. The manufacturers need a global presence in Miami.”
Traditionally, Material World has concentrated on showcasing manufacturers from Latin America.
Yuan, head of Cyber Merchants Exchange Inc. in El Monte, Calif., has been connecting apparel makers and buyers from around the world for several years now.
His ASAP Global Sourcing Show at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel is one of the satellite shows held twice a year during MAGIC International in Las Vegas. —Deborah Belgum
