The trade-show exhibitors in our base — and how we turn a booth into a contact
In our priority-source piece we explained why trade-show exhibitors are the first place we look when matching suppliers for your request. This is the follow-up buyers actually ask for: which shows, how many exhibitors, and — the part that matters most — how a company that paid for a booth becomes a supplier you can actually reach by email.
Which shows we cover
Our exhibitor base is built from major, organizer-vetted trade shows — the kind where exhibiting means passing a real gate (business license, product category, often export history). The largest single block is the Messe Frankfurt series: eleven shows spanning consumer goods, automotive parts, sanitary, home textiles, lighting, technical textiles, e-bike, Christmas, creative, additive manufacturing, and laundry technology. We hold the 2026 edition of each.
Beyond Frankfurt, the base includes Canton Fair (both exhibitor and buyer directories, 137th–139th sessions), plus a long tail of sector shows: CES, CONEXPO, K Show (plastics), IFAT (water/environment), bauma and BAU (construction, Munich), MEDICA (medical), gitex (tech, Dubai), and more.
The email coverage from these shows varies a lot — and that gap is exactly what our verification step exists to close (more below).
How many exhibitors, and how reachable
Some real counts from the current base (2026 editions):
| Show | Exhibitors | With email |
|---|---|---|
| Ambiente (consumer goods) | 3,650 | 3,341 |
| Automechanika (auto parts) | 3,921 | 3,211 |
| ISH (sanitary/building) | 2,129 | 1,994 |
| Heimtextil (home textiles) | 2,199 | 1,922 |
| Light + Building (lighting) | 1,884 | 1,763 |
| Canton Fair (exhibitors) | 30,380 | varies |
| Canton Fair (buyer directory) | 107,338 | varies |
Figures are the 2026 editions currently in our base. Email coverage at intake ranges from ~90% (Frankfurt shows) down to single digits for some construction/industrial shows (bauma, BAU, productronica) — their directories ship with almost no public email, which is precisely the gap our verification step closes.
From "a booth" to "a contact you can email"
A show directory gives you a name and a product. It usually does not give you a working email. Here is the pipeline that turns a booth into a supplier you can reach:
Why this matters to you as a buyer
When you email us what you want to source, the suppliers we match are not anonymous web listings. They are companies that paid for a booth and passed a gate, then had their contact turned into something reachable. That is a very different starting point from "we found a website that might be a factory." It is also why trade-show exhibitors are our priority source — and why, when a show ships without emails, we verify before we ever put a supplier in front of you. (See how we verified UK suppliers)
Email us what you want to source and we'll match from this base — trade-show exhibitors first, then other verified B2B sources.
Frequently asked
How big is the supplier pool you match from?
We match from an existing base we build and continuously enrich — 1.71M+ in total, with 1.04M+ reachable via verified contact info, including 819K+ overseas reachable companies plus a China-based pool of 224K+ reachable suppliers. For buyers, what matters is the verified supplier side: Chinese trade-show exhibitors and other audited B2B sources we can match against your request and reach on your behalf. This is the existing base, not a fixed limit: if the market or category you need isn't in it yet, we collect and enrich it on demand.
Where does TokoAI(51Toko)'s supplier data come from?
From public business databases, Chinese trade-show exhibitor directories, and government procurement records, cross-checked into a reachable, high-quality pool of China-based suppliers that we build and maintain ourselves.
How do you verify a supplier's contact before reaching out?
We only use contact points collected from public sources — a company's own website, trade-show directory, or public business registry — never guessed or machine-constructed addresses. Each address is checked for a real, reachable path before we send on your behalf, and the source is recorded so it can be traced. When a supplier we found responds, it comes from a real, checkable source you can verify yourself.