Success and commercial satisfaction, balance of FADJA 2009

"The trade show has served to consolidate innumerable business among the entrepreneurs of the industry who accompanied us; including companies that were not able to lease a stand were benefited by achieving important business contacts as visitors. The Trade Show began eleven years ago in Cartagena with five exhibitors and this year we have had 144,500 visitors and all the equipment that entered through the Transitory Free Trade Zone was sold. We are proud of these results and we are grateful for the support and confidence operators and associations offered us."

During April 22 and 23, the halls of the Main Room of Corferias in Bogota were filled with the public who came to admire the mounting, quality and beauty of the products of national and international companies who decided to ignore the crisis and focus their efforts to show the best of their brands and services through very large and colorful stands.

Important companies of the industry such as IGT, MundoVideo, Novomatic, Bally, Aristocrat, WMS, R. Franco, Heal Technology, Atronic, Intralot, among many others, shared two days with an active and interested public who demanded hours of work and service, while making important businesses. The professionalism and productivity of the trade show is not only addressed for the Andean region, but also for other places in the five continents.

Equally, the III International Gaming Trade Show, CIJUEGO, was held within the event, organized by FECEAZAR, FEDELCO, FECOLJUEGOS and ETESA, surpassed expectations since the first day more than 300 people attended the event. One of the most interesting topics was "the present of the Colombian gaming market and the current problems that is affecting the continuous growth of the sector."

The top organization authorities of the event where present at the main table. Besides Baltazar Medina, President of FECEAZAR, also present were Norman Correa (National President of ACOPI); Mery Luz Londoño (President of ETESA); Fabio Londoño (Fecoljuegos), and José Aníbal Aguirre (Director of FADJA).

Baltazar Medina declared: "There is no doubt that the great evolution and transformation that this industry is showing today is due to the isolated efforts of entrepreneurs struggling alone to face the many difficulties and putting up with the hostile environment of their activity," and he added that "of all the problems currently facing the gaming industry in Colombia, there is no doubt that the great growth of illegal operation in all the gaming modalities during the last years constitute the greatest threat for the stability of legal companies."

FADJA will return in 2010, to surpass the expectations of its traditional exhibitors and new companies from every latitude, expecting to find in FADJA the ideal trade show to expand their commercial horizons.