PRESS RELEASE
Moscow International Automobile Salon 2014
(МIAS’14)
Crocus Expo IEC, Moscow
Pavilion 2 (halls 5, 6, 7 and 8), Pavilion 3 (halls 12, 13, 14 and 15), outdoor area
August 27 – September 7, 2014
August 27-28 (from 07:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m.): Press Day (admittance only for media members).
August 28 (from 12:00 p.m. to 08:00 p.m.): Business Day (admittance for media members and Business Day invitation holders).
August 28 (02:00 p.m.): Gala Opening Ceremony devoted to the opening of Autosalon and InterAuto 2014 exhibition.
General public days: August 29 – September 6 (from 10:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m.),
September 7 (from 10:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m.).
Moscow International Automobile Salon, the leading automotive event of the year, will open its doors in Crocus Expo IEC for general public starting from August 29.
The organizers of MIAS 2014 are traditionally the Association of Russian Carmakers NP and the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Centre. The event is supported by the Association of European Businesses in Russia (AEB).
Many leading car makers declared increase in their exhibition space during the preparatory period of the Moscow Autosalon and thus the organizers added to the exposition one more hall. 8 halls of two exhibition pavilions will host for the first time the event which is held under the aegis of the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles (OICA). And large-scale Land Rover, Jeep, HAVAL and AVTOVAZ test drives will be accommodated at the outdoor area of Crocus Expo IEC.
The overall exhibit space of MIAS 2014 will exceed 120 000 sq m, and the quantity of presented brands (practically all existing in the world today!) will exceed fifty. The following brands will be exhibited in the fairgrounds: Acura, Alfa Romeo, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Brabus, Brilliance, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chery, Chrysler, Citroen, Ducati, FAW, Fiat, Ford, Geely, Great Wall, Haima, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Jeep, Kia, LADA, Land Rover, Lexus, Lifan, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, SEAT, Skoda, smart, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Volkswagen. Such brands as PGO Automobiles, HAVAL, DFM, Changan, Datsun and HTM (Hawtai Motor) will participate in the motor show for the first time. Bridgestone Corporation, the tire industry market leader and a sponsor of the project, will be accommodated in the same hall with car makers.
Moscow International Automobile Salon will become again the main platform of the country from which to demonstrate the latest novelties of national and global automotive industries. The organizers expect 1 000 000 plus in public attendance according to preliminary estimation.
The coming Autosalon will break records in terms of unveiled premieres. Aiming to intrigue the visitors car makers do not announce their debuts before the first day of the show. But we can reveal already today 9 world premieres (Audi, Datsun, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Renault, Toyota), 9 European premieres (Acura, Chevrolet, Lexus, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Volkswagen), 43 Russian premieres (Audi, Bentley, Cadillac, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, HAVAL, Infiniti, Jeep, Kia, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen) and 16 futuristic-looking concept cars (Acura, Chevrolet, Citroen, Hyundai, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Opel, Peugeot, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota).
The visitors will have an opportunity to see a track for electromobiles especially organized by Kommersant FM radio station and stands of companies presenting car design and tuning, car audio, motorcycles, tires and disks, car electronics and many other things in Hall 12 of the third pavilion. Such key market players as ABIX Technology, Avtohimiya-Invest, Pandora Trade, BOOM-TRIKES RUS, Eberspӓcher Climate Control Systems, Federal Corporation, Hankook Tire Rus, LARTE Design, LUKOIL, Mega-F, Firma MMS, NPP ITELMA, SPA StarLine, Twinmax Oy/Apollo Vredestein B.V., Vossen Wheels, YOKOHAMA RUS and others will display their novelties in the same hall.
As its popularity and success rate has grown over the last years MIAS’2014 has developed to incorporate more than just an exhibition. These special events serve to attract leading exhibitors and visitors and allows all participants the chance to broaden their knowledge and of course their sales potential. August 28 Business Day features a dense and topical calendar of events. The International Assembly of Automotive Industry (MAA-2014), incorporating the 2nd International Forum of Local Suppliers of Automotive Components and the program for auto dealers Autosphere: Sales, Service, Innovation forum, will be held within the frames of the calendar of events.
Moscow Autosalon will also pay attention to such an important component of the automotive world as traffic safety. August 28 an expert center Road Safety Russia will attract for participation in the thematic round table talks representatives of car brands, state departments and structures, experts and public figures to discuss issues related to traffic safety in Russia, to build dialogue between business and state bodies and to call car makers to social responsibility.
Awarding Ceremony of the 10th anniversary national prize Sportcar of the Year 2014 organized by Avtomobili magazine will be held within the frames of the show. A distinguished panel of judges drawn from the same pool of international professionals will select the winners.
A contest where prominent journalists will estimate participants of the show in five nominations will be held August 27 within the frames of Autosalon. Among the nominations of the contest are Original Presentation, Best Stand Design, Unexpected Premieres, Corporate Style and Best Speaker. Alexander Pikulenko, Alexander Dobin, Alexey Grammatchikov, Alexey Slashchev, Evgeny Shipilov, Igor Morzharetto, Nikolay Svistun, Pavel Fedorov, Sergey Aslanyan and Yury Geyko have already confirmed their participation in the panel of judges.
The exposition of unique samples of civil and military equipment of the last century from Motors of War museum and Motomir of Vyacheslav Sheyanov devoted to the forthcoming celebration of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War promises to become a genuine sensation. The organizers assure that the visitors will have an opportunity “to experience esthetics and spirit of the great twentieth century against brilliant perfection of cars of the present because technical genius of mankind in its brightest demonstrations is reflected in each of selected for MIAS 2014 rarities”.
Education Day will be held September 5. The event will be supported by the Association of Russian Automakers NP and the leading higher education institutions of the country. Russian car makers and importers of foreign brands will tell school children and students about companies’ activity, about products, about sector-specific training and employment opportunities, about working conditions and prospects of professional development. BMW Russland Trading, Hyundai Motor CIS, Renault Russia, Ford Sollers Holding, Mercedes Benz RUS, KAMAZ, Avtotor Holding, Volvo East, NAMI Russian Federation Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Nissan Motor RUS, VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus and others supported this socially important idea. Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, specially underlined the significance of the event in his address to the organizers of the show.
The Gala Official Opening Ceremony of Autosalon is scheduled for August 28 at 02:00 p.m. The 10th anniversary exhibition of automotive industry InterAuto, which is held within the frames of MIAS 2014, will be also opened at the ceremony.
Involvement of volunteers for coordination of separate parts of the working process ensuring observance of established rules and regulations and rendering full assistance to visitors will become a distinctive feature of MIAS 2014.
Moscow International Automobile Salon will become the next indicative event for the development of the automotive industry in our country and will serve as additional incentive for filling of the Russian market with modern and high-quality cars.
Crocus Expo IEC and the Association of Russian Automakers NP(OAR) would like to express their special gratitude to the General Sponsor – AVITO Avto, Russia’s largest online automotive classified site, Sponsor – Bridgestone Corporation, General Information Partners – AvtoRadio station and Avtomir. Test Drive magazine, General TV Partner – Auto Plus TV channel, Press Centre Partner – Rostelecom OAO, Business Day Partners – The Moscow Times and RBK holding and also Business Day Intellectual Partner – Harvard Business Review magazine.
Press Service Crocus Expo IEC
Exhibition: MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE SALON 2014
