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Atlanta, GA -- The 2007 International Poultry Expo brought together nearly 20,000 attendees from 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 90 countries.

Co-located with the International Feed Expo for the first time, the IPE is the world’s largest trade show for the poultry and egg industry. This year’s attendance was the largest in five years.

“Feedback from our attendees and exhibitors has been excellent,” said Don Dalton, president of the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, the event sponsor.

“The International Poultry Expo was part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Buyer Program," he added. "Through that program we were able to work with U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to recruit international buyer delegations."

"Egypt, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela were some of the countries that brought sizable delegations to the show and conducted several significant business transactions with our exhibitors," Dalton said.

There were 15,668 domestic attendees and 3,977 international guests. In descending order, Georgia, Illinois, Alabama, North Carolina, and Texas were the states with the largest contingents.

Four states sent more than 100 attendees than they did the previous year: Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Texas.

In descending order, the largest international groups came from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. The countries represented this year that were not present at the previous show were Algeria, Bangladesh, Curacao, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela each registered more than 100 delegates than they did in 2006.

The 2008 International Poultry Expo and International Feed Expo is scheduled Jan. 23-25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Preregistration will open July 1.

For more information, go to www.ipe08.org or contact the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association at 1530 Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga. 30084-7303; or call 770-493-9401.

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