JET EXPO Textile care exhibition in France

PRESS RELEASE - Paris, Wednesday 16 January

JET EXPO Textile care exhibition in France 
5, 6 and 7th of April 2009

For the third edition, JET EXPO, the laundry and dry-cleaning trade fair, will take place in Paris at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, the 5, 6 and 7th of April 2009.

For the 2009 edition about 100 exhibitors and more than 3000 visitors are expected:

• Industrial laundry
• Hospital laundry
• Textile rental
• Manufacturer
• Retirement home
• Hotel and catering industry
• Launderette
• Dry cleaners
• ESAT and EA (handicap workers associations and business)

 
JET EXPO 2009 organization has set a special partnership with the CINET (the International Textile Care Trade Association) which will organize a three days long forum gathering the best international and French experts in textile care issues (PTCA program).

We invite all international press journalists to meet us on central booth JET EXPO ORGANISATION on Monday 6th April  from 10 to 12 a.m. We will give you any information and program to facilitate your visit in Paris and to meet the manufacturers or to have personal contacts with French associations, or company visits.

The French market
Laundry and textile rental market: 

• about 500 hospital laundries from 500 kg to 25 tons a day
• 600 private laundries (hotels, restaurants, private hospital, industry etc)
• 500 laundries in associations for  handicap workers. ESAT are medico-social associations. EA are business societies.
• 11 000 nursery homes.
• 7 textile rental groups (82% of the French market)

(Reference: French market about laundry and textile rental activities, study 2008).

Dry cleaning market:
Dry cleaning French market is worth about 751 million Euros :

• 64% for dry cleaning only
• 14% for coin-operated laundry
• 22% for washing garments (little laundries in town centre)

(Reference: French dry cleaning market Study 2008)
 

We count about 8500 companies but only 4900 dry cleaning companies (5500 shops) for an average turnover about 90 000 euros (2006).
11% of all Companies represent 56% of the global turnover, and 40% of the little owners represent only 17% of the global turnover. The difference between big and little dry cleaning operators is increasing every year.

After a governmental campaign to verify the compliance of the dry cleaning shops concerning European requirements, the results published at the end of December show that 68% of the shops are not strictly  in compliance. 29% received a legal statement and are obliged to change their dry cleaning machine and add a ventilation system within a short delay or have to close the shop.
These reasons explain why JET EXPO will be a very important place to meet manufacturers and their distributors.

If you want more information or pictures to illustrate an article for your newspaper, please contact us at the address below.

For more information:
Patrice LEFRANCOIS, press manager
www.jet-expo.com

Associés en Edition – 201, avenue Pierre Brossolette - 92120 Montrouge
Tél. : (00 33) 1 42 53 31 07 / Fax : (00 33) 1 42 53 61 00

Email: entretien.magazine@wanadoo.fr