SCHILLINGER (BDU) received already more than 100 offers and requests for B2B contacts from all continents to be published during the trade show. SCHILLINGER (BDU) expects again in 2010 more than 500 brand-new offers and requests at the MEDICA Business Center from all over the world. This service is free of charge for exhibitors and visitors. Also the consulting services provided by experienced branch specialists of SCHILLINGER (BDU) to the visitors of the Business Center will again be a free service of SCHILLINGER (BDU).
Over and above, SCHILLINGER (BDU) presents a large number of its portfolio of business opportunities for merger & acquisition at the MEDICA Business Center. And the online database "Contacts for Contracts" with its more than 1,500 individual offers and requests for B2B will be available as well.
Visitors will also find the latest industry-specific information about the job market at the MEDICA Business Center, the SCHILLINGER Income Index Medical Device Technology, popular with employers as well as employees and of course the latest job offers in the branch. This year, the vacancies are mainly in technical service, sales & marketing and management including corporate positions. A novelty this year: SCHILLINGER (BDU) offer positions on an international scale for physicians and medical professionals, mainly in state-of-the-art hospitals and clinics in Saudi-Arabia.
The latest market analyses confirm that the business climate in medical device technology is considered consistently positive this year. After a minor decrease in turnovers last year, this year's growth is estimated at about 10 percent. This positive economic development is noticeable not only at home but also abroad: SCHILLINGER (BDU) noted a considerable increase of requests for suitable distribution partners in a variety of countries.
SCHILLINGER (BDU keeps up with this trend and markets the second edition of the "World Directory MEDICAL DISTIRBUTORS in May 2011. This new edition will be published and marketed in cooperation with the publishing house Sutter Fair Business GmbH in Essen/Germany, known to exhibitors and visitors of MEDICA as the publisher of the fair catalogue. With more than 5,000 addresses in more than 130 countries, the World Directory MEDICAL DISTRIBUTORS is the worldwide most comprehensive directory of trading and distributing companies in medical device technology and healthcare. All data and contact addresses are being controlled and verified by SCHILLINGER (BDU). In addition to the print version, the data, complemented by further information such as number of employees, annual turnover, customer structures etc., is available online at www.worlddirectory.de. As a special treat SCHILLINGER (BDU) offers for all subscribers of the second print edition during MEDICA a 5-months test account free of charge for the entire database.
Another novelty is the cooperation between SCHILLINGER (BDU) and Vivai Software AG in Dortmund/Germany. Among others, Vivai operates www.kliniken.de, a database with currently more than 4,400 addresses of clinics, hospitals and out-patient clinics as well as one of the largest national healthcare job platforms in the German-speaking area. For the coming-up year, the two companies plan to build up an international job platform for medical professionals.
As always, the MEDICA Business Center is located at the exposed Entrance North, booth no. EN02.