Intergeo 2012, the world's largest trade show event and information platform for geodesy, geoinfomation and land management of the year, was just completed during Oct 9 to 11 in Hannover, Germany. As usual, a number of top manufacturers and suppliers for surveying equipments as well as reputed GIS solution providers joined the show and this time, around 16,000 visitors were attracted to the event.

Definitely, SOUTH was part of the show and prioritized as the biggest exhibitor among all Chinese players, with an exhibiting stand area of nearly 100 square meters. And it was of great significance in the export business history because SOUTH has been keeping a straight 10-year appearance in Intergeo exposition since 2003 at Hamburg. Such 10-year participation experience also witnessed the rapid progress of its development in the past decade, which honors SOUTH as a renowned brand in the global stage. In the show, SOUTH presented a full line of total station models, handheld GPS series, RTK GNSS family, and laser instruments as well.

During the stand party on Oct 10, the second day evening of the event, Mr. Ma Chao, President of the SOUTH Group, delivered a short but powerful speech there. By reviewing the past and introducing the latest products and technologies, Mr. Ma was trying to encourage all distributor friends to withstand the current bad economic situation and outline a bright future with the upcoming higher cost-performance but quality instruments from the SOUTH Group. Engr. Liviu Ilinca, General Manager of SOUTH Europe Marketing & Service Center, remarked at the meeting as well, converting the great gratitude for the sincerity, loyalty and support from European distributors.

10 is a good number according to Chinese culture, referring to being perfect in a sense. However, SOUTH will be inspired by this special 10 and keeps on for more and more enhancements and developments to make a full 10 goal.