{"id":10319,"date":"2013-02-20T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swisswatch\/lausannetec-annule-le-marche-a-finalement-choisi\/"},"modified":"2021-04-10T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:49:22","slug":"2013-mchs-flop-lausannetec-cancelled-the-market-has-finally-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/2013-mchs-flop-lausannetec-cancelled-the-market-has-finally-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"2013, MCH&#8217;s flop. Lausannetec cancelled! The market has (finally) chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5269\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5269 \" src=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2018-0805_rene-kamm-copie-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"486\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ren\u00e9 Kamm, CEO de MCH et Baselworld, pr\u00e9voyait &#8220;doubler&#8221; l&#8217;EPHJ avec la lancement \u00e0 Beaulieu d&#8217;un salon concurrent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of Lausannetec is purely and simply cancelled. The bloghorloger, alerted by some exhibitors, announced a postponement in October. The latest information indicates a pure and simple cancellation. &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s no use putting companies in a situation where they can&#8217;t be successful<\/em>,&#8221; confirms Ren\u00e9 Z\u00fcrcher of MCH in Lausanne. To quote MCH Group CEO Ren\u00e9 Kamm at the grand launch of Lausannetec, &#8220;<em>The market has chosen<\/em>&#8220;. In 2012, this market clearly opted for EPHJ-EPMT-SMT, which saw its number of exhibitors explode to 664 for 14,430 professional visitors, leaving Lausannetec far behind. For several weeks now, the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT (June 11 to 14, 2013), has been announcing on its official website &#8220;<em>more than 650 confirmed exhibitors<\/em>&#8220;. This suggests that the 700 exhibitor threshold will be easily crossed. The exhibitors have chosen! Mass is said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of Lausannetec is purely and simply cancelled. 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Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Ga\u00efa, aka the \"Nobel of watchmaking\" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Mus\u00e9e International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds","sameAs":["https:\/\/grandjean.watch","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joel.grandjean","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/grandjean.grammson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joel-a-grandjean-\u270d-5524357\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/tagpress","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@joela.grandjeanprowatchpre906"],"url":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/author\/joel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}