PALM EXPO

MUMBAI, INDIA / 25 – 27 MAY, 2023 EMEA

Justin Gawne reports from the show floor of this year’s PALM Expo...

It’s been a while since I’ve visited the PALM Show in Mumbai, nearly 10 years. So, I thought I’d better drop in and see how the show has progressed over the years, and in the post COVID-19 world.

Held at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, a venue which was past its best even on my first visit, the show was certainly busy. Organisers Hyve stated a total of 27,786 attendees, of which 21,659 were unique visitors.

The crowds outside were such that we couldn’t get our badges because they had to stagger the admissions – obviously a good sign, but being stuck out in the Mumbai heat probably didn’t please everyone. On top of this, the floor space had grown from my last visit and it now took up three halls – Pro Audio in 1, Pro AV in 2, and Lighting in 3.

Hall 1 was the largest and had most of the big Indian distributors in situ showing just about every major audio brand available, as well as international lighting brands they carried.

Indian loudspeakers companies were also present in abundance as the size of, and price sensitivity of the Indian market, does allow for domestic manufacturing to flourish, but strangely similar to Brazilian manufacturers, these products don’t seem to travel beyond the domestic market. Hall 3 mainly consisted of lighting distributors, and if you ever needed free laser

1 Aditya Deokar and Mawesh Deokar of Pinto Electronics.

2 The Adamson team on its stand.

3 Alex Bryan from Fenix Stage.

4 James Baker and Ian Staddon of Digico.

5 Pankil Ahuja and colleague of Claypaky.

6 Ashish Menta of Star Dimensions.

7 Davinder Wadhwa, his son, Menze van de Sluis of Sixty82, and Sofia of Antari.

8 The Meyer Sound team on the Sun Group stand.

9 Rasesh Parekh and the IES team on their stand.

10 Aarambh Dewaskar and colleague of Ansata.