Exhibitions as an effective tool of marketing communications.

Soloviova-Rumyantseva Aleksandra, 3rd year student, Faculty of Agricultural Management

Scientific director: Senior lecturer Mykhailo Lulko

The modern concept of marketing based on knowledge of consumer demand and changes in the future, and the special importance of trade fairs and exhibitions.

Unlike other marketing tools, the advantage of trade shows is direct communication and live contact with the goods and service. They create the preconditions for the so-called chance encounters, provide an immediacy of communication, offer products in their natural form, provide the buyer the opportunity to compare homogeneous products for the commercial terms of sale, quality, price; facilitate the exchange of information, in particular on new developments in science and technology.

The exhibition has helped to enhance the credibility of agricultural enterprises to gain experience and professional contacts, increase skills of workers and to intensify their efforts to improve their business activities, to protect against erroneous decisions and actions, to shape public opinion about the company and the participant.

The best example in Ukraine is the international exhibition of agricultural machinery and equipment “InterAGRO”. Most of the participants of the exhibition “InterAGRO” are the manufacturers of agricultural machinery and equipment that is more in keeping with the standards of the world's largest agro-industrial exhibitions.

The exhibition presents the latest achievements and innovations of the world and domestic machinery for the agricultural sector, agricultural equipment for repair and service, spare parts, technologies of precision agriculture and agro-climate. The exhibition includes different business events, the subject of which formed in accordance with the actual problems of agricultural sector, taking into account the latest world trends in the industry. The participants of the international conferences, seminars, round tables will be able to navigate the maelstrom of innovations in the industry, to understand the direction of market development.

Since 1895, New Holland has been developing solutions that improve the efficiency of agriculture and its performance with available technologies. In 2006 began using a strategy of Clean Energy Leader (Leadership in developing clean energy) for the active promotion of renewable fuels, reducing the toxicity of engine technology and environmentally sustainable agriculture. New Holland has created the widest agricultural equipment range in the world, serving the needs of all markets and customers.

This company has considerable experience of participation in such activities, and through effective use of marketing strategies and the quality and creative preparation for participation, achieve good results and always makes visitors to stay permanently at their stand. New Holland has always been famous for their high-quality approach in preparations for each event.  They are not only presenting their equipment during the exhibitions, but also positioning the basic values of the brand – innovative, dynamic and smart global leader.

Due to such exhibition events, the most competitive products of home and foreign producers come to the internal market of country, considerable part of export potential also formed, and that is why industrial enterprises examine exhibition events as most effective method of advancement of products, perhaps the only way to enter foreign markets.

List of references:

1. Research and development of the design-ergonomic methodology of information support of exhibition activities [Text]: research report / NID hands. Semkin, V. V. – K., 1999. – 132 p. Il.

2. About measures for improvement of the exhibition activity in Ukraine: the decree of the President of Ukraine of 30 October 1996 No. 1015/96 (as amended from 12.02.2006) // www.rada.gov.ua.

3. Arsovska, Marina, the Problem of estimation of efficiency of exhibition activity // Marketing and advertising. - 2006. - No. 1. - C. 53-57