For buyers developing a home décor collection, expanding a furniture range or looking for distinctive gifts, meeting suppliers in person can answer questions that catalogues leave open. You can examine finishes, compare materials, discuss customisation and see whether a manufacturer understands your requirements.
The 62nd IHGF Delhi Fair Autumn 2026, scheduled for 13–17 October 2026, offers that opportunity at India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida, Delhi NCR. The organiser advertises more than 3,000 exhibitors across 16 product sectors, with over 2,000 product lines and more than 300 design developments. Visit the official fair website for the event overview.
For international buyers, the value of the visit depends on preparation and follow-through. This guide brings together the key fair details and a practical approach to finding suppliers, assessing products and moving promising discussions towards production.
IHGF Delhi Fair Autumn 2026 at a Glance
These are the organiser’s published details for the upcoming edition. Check the official fair website for updates before travelling.
What Is IHGF Delhi Fair, and Who Should Attend?
IHGF Delhi Fair is a business-to-business sourcing event organised in spring and autumn editions. EPCH, established in 1986–87, supports India’s handicrafts export sector and connects manufacturers and exporters with overseas buyers. Its work includes industry infrastructure, product development, training and initiatives such as VRIKSH, a timber legality assessment and verification scheme. Read more about IHGF and its organiser.
The fair’s visitor audience includes importers, retailers, buying agencies, sourcing consultants, e-commerce businesses, domestic volume buyers, hospitality buyers, architects and interior designers, as outlined in the official visitor FAQs.
It is particularly useful when you have a defined buying brief: a new category to explore, a collection to develop or an existing supplier base to broaden. A clear brief makes it easier to distinguish attractive products from commercially suitable ones.
What Can You Source? The 16 Product Sectors
The organiser’s product categories page covers:
- Home décor and accents
- Home furnishings, carpets and rugs
- Textiles
- Gifts and premiums
- Interiors
- Furniture
- Fashion jewellery
- Bags and accessories
- Lamps and lighting accessories
- Outdoor and garden products
- Aroma, spa and lifestyle products
- Christmas and festive décor
- Kitchen and dinnerware
- Bathroom accessories
- Cane, bamboo, paper and eco-friendly products
- Educational toys and game accessories
Use the official product categories page to identify relevant sectors before planning your meetings.
When comparing products, look beyond appearance. A dining accessory needs the right finish and packaging for its intended use. Furniture needs consistent dimensions and construction. Textiles need an agreed specification for composition, colour and care. The buying conversation should connect design with the conditions under which the product will be made, shipped and sold.
Use the Pre-Fair Directory to Build Your Shortlist
The IHGF pre-fair directory provides company listings and search options for product category, product, city, company and hall. It also includes permanent mart listings and a Vriksh Certified filter.
The organiser explicitly describes the participant list as provisional and incomplete. Final booth sizes and locations are subject to allotment, and additional participants may be added. Reconfirm your shortlisted exhibitors’ attendance and locations before the fair.
Turn your search results into a working buyer sheet. For each potential supplier, record the relevant products, contact person, questions to resolve and meeting priority. Add space for quotation details and next steps so the same sheet remains useful after your visit.
A directory listing is a starting point for research. Before proceeding with an order, assess whether the business has the capability, capacity and controls your product requires. Our guide to verifying an Indian supplier before placing an order provides a useful next step.
Registration, Accommodation and Transport
The visitor information page brings together registration, hotels, free shuttles, FAQs and fair facilities. Complete your registration early and keep the confirmation accessible during your trip.
The organiser’s FAQs direct buyers to online registration and also describe on-site registration at the ground-floor CFB registration area. EPCH lists visa recommendation-letter assistance, hotel booking support and arrival-transfer arrangements for pre-registered buyers. Confirm eligibility, availability and arrangements directly with the organiser using the registration and travel FAQs.
Choose accommodation around your working itinerary. Consider the journey to Greater Noida, your planned meeting hours and any factory visits before or after the fair. Ask for a current hotel quotation that clearly states inclusions and cancellation terms.
The official free shuttle schedule lists services from designated hotels. It also gives specific last-day instructions: some marked services will not run on 17 October, and evening departures will start one hour earlier than the printed schedule. Recheck your route before setting your final-day appointments.
Published fair facilities include an information counter, business centre, foreign exchange, taxi service, luggage storage and a medical desk.
Prepare a Buying Brief Before You Arrive
A concise buying brief helps suppliers respond with relevant options. Bring reference images and specifications that explain what matters most to your business.
Include:
- Product scope: Categories, intended use, dimensions, materials and finishes.
- Commercial targets: Expected order quantities and target purchase prices.
- Collection requirements: Colours, sizes, variants and branding.
- Packaging: Retail presentation, protective packing and carton requirements.
- Timing: Sample approval, production and required delivery milestones.
- Quality expectations: Acceptable variation, inspection points and documentation needs.
Separate essential requirements from preferences. A supplier may be able to offer a different material or construction that meets your intended use, but that change should be discussed and documented before a quotation is treated as comparable.
For example, “a decorative storage basket” leaves many decisions open. Specifying its dimensions, material, handle construction, intended load and packing method gives suppliers a clearer basis for pricing.
Questions to Ask Suppliers at the Fair
Use meetings to understand how the supplier would deliver your order. Record answers against specific products so that discussions remain useful when you return home.
Ask permission before photographing products. Label approved photographs with the supplier name and product reference immediately; a folder of unidentified images is difficult to turn into a buying decision.
Avoid treating the first quoted unit price as the full comparison. Sample revisions, packing requirements, order quantities and transport volume can change the commercial picture.
Look Closely at Quality and Sustainability Claims
An attractive display sample tells you what a supplier can present. Your next task is to establish what it can reproduce consistently at your order quantity.
For shortlisted products, agree measurable acceptance criteria. These might include dimensions, finish consistency, assembly requirements, stitching, colour variation or packaging performance. Ask how the supplier records and checks these requirements during production.
Where a product is promoted using environmental claims, ask what specifically supports the claim. Clarify the material, production process and scope of any certificate presented. Keep that evidence connected to the actual product and supplier under consideration.
Our factory audit checklist for Indian manufacturers can help structure the next stage of supplier assessment.
Plan Your Time Around Buying Decisions
With several days available, it helps to give each stage of the visit a purpose. The following is a suggested working plan, not an official programme:
Leave room for unexpected finds, but protect enough time for second conversations. Many useful details emerge after you have compared alternatives and know which questions matter.
At the end of each day, sort suppliers into three groups: proceed to sampling, request more information, or keep on file. This keeps follow-up focused and prevents every business card from receiving the same priority.
After the Fair: Move from Interest to a Controlled Order
The next stage should turn discussions into an agreed specification, an approved sample and a realistic production plan.
- Send a written meeting recap. List product references, requested changes, quantities and outstanding questions.
- Compare equivalent quotations. Align specifications, packaging and delivery terms before selecting on price.
- Complete supplier checks. Resolve questions about manufacturing capability and production arrangements.
- Develop and approve samples. Document revisions and identify the sample that will serve as the production reference.
- Agree order milestones. Establish approval deadlines, production updates and inspection points.
- Prepare shipping arrangements. Confirm packing details and coordinate shipment planning against the agreed readiness date.
For a first order, keep the range manageable enough to learn how the supplier performs. The most useful outcome from a fair visit is a set of qualified next steps that your team can track through to completion.
Official Resources and Useful Contacts
The marketing collateral downloads page links to brochures, web banners, email marketing material, press releases, QR codes and flyers. Its media coverage section was marked as forthcoming when checked. Use the latest edition-specific material when preparing your team’s visit information.
For organiser assistance, the official contact page lists:
- Overseas buyers: visitors@ihgfdelhifair.in — +91 9818008078 / +91 9818725553
- Buying and sourcing consultants: buyingagents@ihgfdelhifair.in — +91 9350202196
- Domestic volume buyers: epchdomestic@ihgfdelhifair.in — +91 9711364656 / +91 8800722199
- Exhibitor enquiries: mukesh.sharma@epch.com — +91 9958882464
- Hotel bookings: hotels@epch.com — +91 9871121212
The fair venue is at Plot Nos. 23–25 and 27–29, Knowledge Park II, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201306. EPCH’s organising office is in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi; use the venue address when planning your journey to the exhibition.
How Premier India Sourcing Can Support Your Buying Process
At Premier India Sourcing, we help international businesses develop their sourcing operations in India through supplier shortlisting, factory audits, sampling and product development, quality control and logistics coordination.
If you are preparing for IHGF Delhi Fair Autumn 2026, share your product categories, target quantities, reference designs and delivery objectives with us. We can discuss the sourcing support appropriate to your requirements, from evaluating potential suppliers to managing the steps that follow product selection.
Contact Premier India Sourcing to discuss your India sourcing brief.
Event information reflects the organiser’s public pages checked on 24 September 2026. Reconfirm registration, exhibitor locations and travel arrangements before your visit.
