Tackle Trade World - April 2024

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EFTTEX ON THE CARDS FOR 2025
As the European
Fishing Tackle Trade
Association (EFTTA)
reveals plans for an Angling
Summit for later this year, it has
also been announced that the
EFTTEX trade show looks set
to return in 2025.
Although EFTTEX 2023,
staged in Budapest, was
considered a success by some,
proposals to run another this
year were dropped at the start
of the year, although TTW
understands another European
trade show – not sanctioned by
EFTTA – is being touted.
But the focus this year will,
instead, be on an engaging
Angling Summit, designed to
bring together the industry for
two days of discussions, seminars
and networking in a central
European location.
The summit concept –
which is already favoured by
the American Sportfishing
Association and the American
Fly Fishing Trade Association
(which will be running its first
in place of the IFTD Show later
this year) – is seen as a precursor
to the return of EFTTEX in
2025.
Although a venue has not
been revealed, it is understood
that discussions are well under
way, although it is also likely that
EFTTA itself will not oversee
the show as it is concentrating
on its lobbying efforts in
the European parliament to
safeguard the future of our sport
and the industry.
EFTTA vice-president Ross
Honey told TTW: “Currently
under consideration for 2024
is an Angling Summit with an
industry awards [event] and a
restructured, made-for-purpose
EFTTEX show in 2025. There
are several different companies
submitting proposals to run
these initiatives and are due
to have these to EFTTA for
consideration by mid-March.”
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