French export-support agency UBIFRANCE has said it will be presenting 25 French companies at this year’s GITEX event at the Dubai World Trade Centre between the 14th – 18th of October.
The companies will be hoping to use the opportunity to showcase a number of innovative products on the French pavilion.
The agency claims that a wide range of products will be exhibited, including those relating to business IT, business communications and networks, ICT infrastructure, IT and telecoms accessories, future internet, consumables, open source, cards technologies, electrical protection systems, consulting, mobile content, HR IT solutions, electronic devices for taxi drivers, and more.
“According to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO), worldwide IT expenditure is experiencing substantial growth rates in emerging countries and should have risen by 4.3% in 2011, reaching €963.4 billion. In Europe, France enjoyed a 3.4% increase in expenditure,” UBIFRANCE said.
The EITO highlights the substantial upsurge — by 4.2% — in the French infrastructure software segment in 2011. This trend is expected to continue in 2012, with a forecasted 4.8% rise. The growth in this segment is primarily the result of rising sales in storage- and security-applications solutions, boosted by the proliferation of cloud computing offers.
Also according to the EITO, the worldwide IT market in 2012 will grow by 5.4%, exceeding €1,000 billion in sales for the first time.
