New excitement this year with the annual Journee Des Collections moving from Paris in May to Marseilles in April. Would a new venue on a new date work? The answer was a resounding yes.
It was a great platform to display our full product range to our French customers and we got a great response to our new product offers. Ironically much of the show was inside compared to the half in/ half out format at the previous JDC venue, although with the beautiful weather in Marseilles, we could all have had our entire stands outside bathed in glorious sunshine. Tant pis…
Even more excitement came in the form of a French air traffic control strike starting the first day of the show. Working out how to get home to the UK was a chance to show our ingenuity – a beautiful drive through the mountains to Turin and flying back to London via Brussels was the answer. Never have so many European cities been visited in one day.