Materials at WSA - Fashion Company Profile
Materials at WSA was a footwear materials sourcing expo held within The WSA Show in Las Vegas - a marketplace for leather, textiles, synthetics and components alongside the finished footwear on the main show floor, documented in 2008 and 2009.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- No current edition could be verified - Materials at WSA is documented as a footwear materials sourcing expo held within The WSA Show in Las Vegas in 2008-2009, and no current official website or forthcoming edition was found for this update
- Type
- Trade show - a sourcing expo and conference presented within The WSA Show, the World Shoe Association's footwear trade show
- Headquarters
- Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (the show's venue, the Las Vegas Convention Center)
- Documented
- Presented in 2008-2009 alongside The WSA Show and The Collections at WSA; the February 2009 shows drew 24,270 participants
Company Profile
No shop box appears here: Materials at WSA was a trade show, not a product company. Its current status could not be verified for this update, and this snapshot says so plainly rather than presenting the older record as current: event notices document Materials at WSA in July 2008 and the combined WSA shows in February 2009, trade coverage that August described The WSA Show as sharply contracted, and no current official website or forthcoming edition was found. The fuller record - what the expo covered, its educational workshops and its trend forecast arena - is kept in full on the history page, with its image.
The visitor description in the filing is correspondingly upstream. Materials at WSA attracted leading product development, design and sourcing executives and their teams, who came to discover new suppliers, preview upcoming trends in the arena, explore new chemical processes and technologies, and learn about new developments in international manufacturing capabilities. Every verb in that list belongs to the beginning of product creation rather than its end: discovering suppliers, previewing trends, exploring processes, studying manufacturing abroad. Suppliers, in turn, received what the source calls the strongest possible platform to launch new materials, techniques and applications for footwear, handbag and accessory brands within the United States.
Materials at WSA History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Materials at WSA History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What was Materials at WSA?
A sourcing expo and conference held within The WSA Show in Las Vegas, covering raw materials such as leather, textiles, synthetics and components for footwear, handbags and accessories, with educational workshops and a trend forecast arena.
Is Materials at WSA still held?
No current edition could be verified for this update. The event is documented in 2008-2009; The WSA Show itself was reported sharply contracted in 2009, and no current official site or forthcoming edition was found.
Who attended Materials at WSA?
Product development, design and sourcing executives and their teams, meeting suppliers of materials, chemical processes and manufacturing technology for the footwear industry.
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