Pune
A city second in importance to only Mumbai , in the Western Hemisphere of India.With a teeming population of 4.5 million and 80% literacy rate, this city boasts some highly reputed universities and colleges, and has been nicknamed as 'Oxford of the East'.Escalating on the map of India's popular industrial hubs,Pune was recently ranked as the third prominent emerging city for business in the world ,by a recent article of Forbes News.Also nicknamed 'Detroit of the East',it is a hub of Automotive,Engineering and Logistics industires, and  now an acclaimed hub of the Information Technolgy Sector as well.Pune's growth as a giant industrial market is evident through its buoyant economy and an industrial sector with a buying capacity worth over 200,000 million Indian rupees per annum.It also has a vast consumer market and is ranked as the 7th metro city of India,with an annual growth rate of over 15%.Favourable climate,modern amenities,an increasingly cosmopolitian population,high competency of manpower and vicinity to Mumbai-the financial capital of the country,has put Pune on the global map as a popular commercial gateway to India.
                 
About Pune Expo
Initiated in the year 2002,this annual exposition is  organized by the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce ,Industires and  Agriculture(MCCIA) in the city of Pune and is regraded as one of the largest of  its kind in India.Owing to its integrated nature that is not  segment-specific,participant demography in the past has spanned sectors such as  automotive,engineering,IT,electronics and electricals,polymers  ,food-processing,agriculture and wine-making,as well as service sectors such as  insurance ,banking and finance,education and research,thus proving to be an  effectively platform for cross-sectoral interaction.