Alihankinta Subcontracting Fair - 35 & GLO
The averagely warm, successful Olympic summer of 1984 had just turned into a rainy autumn, as Rafik Neuman – the newly appointed managing director of Tampere Trade Fairs Group – talked about the need for a subcontracting trade fair with Kari Aarnio, business development advisor for the Federation of Finnish Metal, Engineering and Electrotechnical Industries MET, at the Finntec Trade Fair in Helsinki. He convinced Aarnio that there was a call for such event, and the idea remained smouldering at the back of the two industrialists’ minds.
The year had changed until Neuman was giving a talk on trade fairs at an entrepreneurs’ association, when an entrepreneur from Lempäälä stood up in the back of the room and asked: “What can you offer me?”