5th Thailand Trade Show 2012 at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre Kuala Lumpur

By Anthony Tanemail: micemalaysiabeyond@gmail.com

Opening Speech by Mrs Nannatee Wiboonchutikula – Minister Counsellor (Commercial) at the Royal Thai Embassy, Kuala Lumpur

The 5th Thailand Trade Show 2012 (TTS 2012), an annual international trade fair organised by the Office of Commercial Affairs of the Royal Thai Embassy, Kuala Lumpur. It is a division under the Department of International Trade Promotion, Ministry of Commerce.

TTS 2012 is a trade and consumers show with its objectives aimed to create trade & business opportunities for Malaysian importers and wholesale entrepreneurs to promote Thai products and services. It is also to expose such products and service on display to reach out the general publics’ five senses, to see, touch, taste, smell and hear to understand Thai products and services better.

This year, there are over 65 Thai companies with a wide range of industries e.g. food and beverage, toys, textile, jewellery, garments, fashion accessories, cosmetics, beauty and health care, herbal products, handicrafts, gifts items, home deco, household products, kitchenware, auto parts and tourism.

There are fun games & activities for the whole family as part of the stage programmes. There are great bargains for shoppers as the exhibitors are not going to take their products back home after the show as they would incur extra cost.

Tourism Authority of Thailand is presenting cultural dances, umbrella painting and Thai desserts as well as promoting Thai holiday destinations.

One of the items that is in popular demand is the body massage oil and other essential oils

The Thais are also strong in the manufacturing of herbal products like hair dye, bath soap, hair tonic and other toiletries.

TTS 2012 is open to public with free admission at Hall 3, Level 3 Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur from March 8-10, from 10:30 am to 9:00 pm. Please take note, it is open from 10.30 am to 7pm on Sunday March 11.



Kevin S (in black shirt), regional sales director of KPN Material Co Ltd from Suphanburi was promoting a hair tonic made from Thai-Chinese herbs with 120 years' history.

He was having a busy time at TTS 2012 with his stocks almost run out by the second day. He claimed his other product, DNA Essential is a close second to Estee Lauder anti-wrinkle cream.


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