Buyer guide · Greater Noida, India
IHGF Delhi Fair is India's largest sourcing exhibition for handicrafts, home décor, furniture, lighting, home textiles, fashion accessories and lifestyle products, organized by the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH). It is held twice each year at the India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida — Spring edition typically in April, Autumn edition typically in October — and hosts 3,000+ Indian manufacturers meeting buyers from more than 100 countries. This page is Asia Sourcing's independent buyer guide, not the official event site. For official registration, exhibitor listings and current-edition dates visit the EPCH-operated official site.
Location
India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida, India
Organizer
EPCH — Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (India)
Cadence
Twice a year — Spring (typically April) and Autumn (typically October)
Categories
Furniture · Home décor · Handicrafts · Lighting · Home textile · Fashion accessories · Lifestyle products
Official event information
Registration, verified dates and exhibitor listings are on the official event website.
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What is IHGF Delhi Fair?
IHGF Delhi Fair (Indian Handicrafts & Gifts Fair) is the flagship export exhibition organized by EPCH — the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts, a body established under the Indian Ministry of Textiles. The fair covers the full breadth of Indian handicraft-adjacent export categories: furniture (Jodhpur solid-wood, Saharanpur carved, Jaipur specialty), home décor (Moradabad brass, Firozabad hand-blown glass, Agra Pietra Dura marble, Jaipur block-print), lighting (Moradabad brass pendants, Firozabad glass shade), home textile (Panipat rugs, Karur bed-and-table linen, Bhadohi hand-knotted rugs, Varanasi silk), and lifestyle accessories.
The fair operates on a buyer-registration model — international sourcing teams, retail buyers, DTC brand founders, hospitality FF&E specifiers and importers register in advance and are given fair-week access to the 3,000+ exhibitor mart. IHGF is the single largest concentration of Indian export-ready manufacturers at any global sourcing event, and is a core annual calendar entry for buyers building or expanding an India sourcing programme.
IHGF Delhi Fair — dates and calendar
IHGF Delhi Fair runs on a twice-a-year cadence. The Spring edition is typically held in April and the Autumn edition typically in October. Specific edition dates vary year to year and are confirmed by EPCH 3-6 months ahead of each edition. For the current confirmed edition dates always refer to the official event website — we deliberately do not republish dates here to avoid drift.
Historical calendar reference: past editions have generally run 5 days from Monday-Friday of the applicable week, at the India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida. Trade visitors typically plan a 5-7 day visit around the fair, combining fair days with cluster-visits (Moradabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Saharanpur, Firozabad) either side.
IHGF venue and travel
IHGF Delhi Fair is held at the India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh — approximately 45 km east of central Delhi and approximately 55 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL). The venue is served by the Delhi Metro Blue Line extension (Botanical Garden station + fair-shuttle) and by the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway from central Delhi. Fair-week road transfers from central Delhi run 60-90 minutes depending on traffic.
Recommended accommodation for international buyers is either central Delhi (Aerocity, Connaught Place, South Delhi) with daily fair-shuttle transfers, or Greater Noida hotels (Radisson, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Greater Noida) within 10-15 minutes of the venue. Our team can arrange India travel logistics for buyers combining IHGF attendance with cluster visits — enquire in advance for coordinated hotel bookings, transfers and cluster-tour scheduling.
IHGF registration — how buyer registration works
IHGF Delhi Fair operates on a trade-visitor registration model. International buyers register online on the official event website in advance of each edition. The registration form typically requires: company details (company name, address, buyer category), buyer profile (retailer / DTC brand / importer / hospitality specifier), product categories of interest (furniture / lighting / home décor / textile / handicrafts / accessories / lifestyle), sourcing volume tier, and identity verification (business card, letterhead, company website).
Registration is free for verified international trade buyers. On approval, buyers receive a fair-week visitor badge and access to the exhibitor mart. For current edition registration always use the official EPCH-operated fair website — link at the top of this page. Note: Asia Sourcing does not process official IHGF registrations. We are an independent India sourcing house that meets buyers at IHGF, and this page is our independent buyer guide.
IHGF exhibitor categories and product mix
IHGF Delhi Fair spans nine broad product halls across the India Expo Centre & Mart footprint. Furniture — Jodhpur solid-wood dining and casegoods, Saharanpur carved and upholstered, Jaipur specialty, industrial-style metal-and-wood, garden and outdoor furniture. Home décor — Moradabad brass and mixed-metal, Firozabad hand-blown glass, Jaipur blue pottery and block-print, Agra Pietra Dura marble inlay, Saharanpur hand-carved wood décor, Delhi NCR mixed-décor volume programmes. Lighting — Moradabad decorative brass pendants and chandeliers, Firozabad glass shades, Aligarh lighting hardware, Delhi NCR fixture assembly.
Home textile — Panipat cotton rugs and throws, Karur bed and table linen, Bhadohi hand-knotted rugs and dhurries, Varanasi silk and brocade, Kashmir pashmina and paper mache. Fashion accessories — Kanpur and Chennai leather goods, Jaipur jewellery, Moradabad and Delhi metal accessories, Kolkata textile accessories. Lifestyle and gifting — mixed craft-décor, seasonal ranges, kitchen and tabletop accessories, home organisation. Christmas and seasonal — dedicated hall covering Christmas décor, wreaths, ornaments, seasonal textile.
Looking for furniture suppliers at IHGF?
IHGF is the single largest concentration of Indian furniture manufacturers at any sourcing event — Jodhpur solid-wood factories, Saharanpur carved-and-upholstered workshops, Jaipur specialty furniture makers, industrial-style metal-and-wood cluster, and hospitality FF&E-tier contract-furniture manufacturers all exhibit. Attending IHGF gives international furniture buyers direct-factory access at a scale no other event offers.
For buyers evaluating Indian furniture suppliers before, during and after IHGF, Asia Sourcing runs the full operational verification stack: supplier shortlisting matching your programme requirements, factory audit and social-compliance verification (BSCI / Sedex), pre-production sample development, production monitoring at agreed milestones, pre-shipment AQL inspection, container-loading supervision at Mundra or Nhava Sheva, and end-to-end programme management. Read the furniture sourcing playbook at /categories/furniture and our regional buyer pages at /regions/uk/furniture-sourcing, /regions/germany/furniture-sourcing, /regions/france/furniture-sourcing.
Looking for lighting suppliers at IHGF?
IHGF concentrates the full Indian decorative-lighting export ecosystem in a single venue — Moradabad brass pendants and chandeliers, Firozabad hand-blown glass shades, Aligarh lighting hardware, Delhi NCR fixture assembly. Buyers evaluating Indian lighting suppliers at IHGF encounter the design-and-price range from heritage-craft-brass through contemporary-Scandinavian pendant collections through hospitality-grade contract lighting.
For buyers evaluating Indian lighting suppliers, Asia Sourcing runs EN 60598 electrical-safety pre-testing coordination, CE + GS + NF certification (per destination market), Schuko / French Type-E / UK three-pin plug-and-cord fitting at factory, TÜV EMC compliance where required, and full pre-shipment 100% electrical-safety testing plus AQL 2.5 aesthetic inspection. Product categories: pendant lights, table lamps, floor lamps, wall lights, chandeliers, decorative lighting, brass lighting, metal lighting, hospitality lighting. Read the full playbook at /categories/lighting and destination-market pages at /regions/uk/lighting-sourcing, /regions/germany/lighting-sourcing, /regions/france/lighting-sourcing.
IHGF preparation — a buyer's practical checklist
Before the fair: define programme scope (categories, target retail-tier, target landed cost, MOQ range, first-container target-arrival date, destination-market compliance stack). Prepare technical spec-sheets or CAD files for any custom or private-label SKU you plan to discuss. Compile your compliance documentation requirements (destination-country plug fitting, fire-safety standards, sustainability certifications). Reach out to sourcing partners in advance to pre-book cluster visits either side of the fair — Moradabad and Jaipur are 3-4 hour drives from Delhi, Jodhpur is a domestic flight, Saharanpur is a 4-5 hour drive.
At the fair: ask suppliers for MOQ, per-SKU FOB pricing at your target volume, sample turnaround and sample fee, capacity utilization for your target production window, existing export references to your destination market, existing compliance certification (BSCI / Sedex / FSC / GOTS / GRS / OEKO-TEX / GS-mark / UKCA / NF), and factory-audit availability. After the fair: shortlist 3-5 suppliers per SKU-family, commission independent factory audits before committing production PO, run a supervised sample round, and lock production capacity for your programme calendar.
Meet the Asia Sourcing team at IHGF
Our India-based team attends IHGF Delhi Fair every edition. Buyers planning to attend can share their sourcing requirements in advance and schedule a fair-week meeting to discuss programme scope, cluster-match and India-side operational discipline. We are an independent buyer-side sourcing house — our fee comes from you (transparent commission on FOB or fixed retainer), never from the factory. Meetings can be scheduled at the venue, at our Delhi office, or combined with a cluster-visit itinerary immediately after the fair.
Attending IHGF? Share your requirements before the fair and arrange a meeting with our team — the earlier the coordination, the better the cluster-visit itinerary we can build around your fair attendance.
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IHGF Delhi Fair · Frequently asked questions
What is IHGF Delhi Fair?
IHGF Delhi Fair (Indian Handicrafts & Gifts Fair) is India's largest handicrafts and home-lifestyle sourcing exhibition, organized by EPCH — the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (Indian Ministry of Textiles). It runs twice a year at the India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida, and hosts 3,000+ Indian manufacturers across furniture, home décor, lighting, home textile, fashion accessories, and lifestyle products meeting international trade buyers.
When is IHGF Delhi Fair held?
IHGF Delhi Fair runs twice a year — Spring edition typically in April and Autumn edition typically in October. Specific edition dates vary year to year and are confirmed by EPCH 3-6 months ahead of each edition. Always refer to the official EPCH event website for the current confirmed dates.
Where is IHGF Delhi Fair held?
IHGF Delhi Fair is held at the India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh — approximately 45 km east of central Delhi and 55 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL).
How do I register for IHGF Delhi Fair?
International buyers register online on the official EPCH event website in advance of each edition. Registration is free for verified international trade buyers. The form typically requires company details, buyer profile, product categories of interest, and identity verification. Asia Sourcing does not process official IHGF registrations — we are an independent India sourcing house that meets buyers at the fair.
Who can attend IHGF as a visitor?
IHGF is open to international trade buyers only — retail buying offices, DTC brand founders, importers, hospitality FF&E specifiers and design-firm principals. Trade credentials (business card, letterhead, company website) are required for registration approval.
What products can buyers source at IHGF?
IHGF spans nine broad product halls: furniture (Jodhpur solid-wood, Saharanpur carved), home décor (Moradabad brass, Firozabad glass, Jaipur block-print, Agra marble inlay), lighting (Moradabad brass and mixed-metal, Firozabad glass shades), home textile (Panipat rugs, Karur linen, Bhadohi rugs, Varanasi silk), fashion accessories, and lifestyle/gifting/Christmas categories.
Can I meet the Asia Sourcing team at IHGF?
Yes. Our India-based team attends every IHGF edition. Share your sourcing requirements in advance through /contact or /start-a-project and we will schedule a fair-week meeting — either at the venue, at our Delhi office, or combined with a cluster-visit itinerary.
Can Asia Sourcing help source furniture and lighting from India after IHGF?
Yes — this is the core of what we do. We run the full India sourcing operational stack: supplier verification, factory audit, sample development, production monitoring, pre-shipment inspection, container-loading supervision, and end-to-end programme management for furniture and lighting sourcing from India to buyers in the UK, EU, USA, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
Share your India sourcing requirements in advance and we will schedule a fair-week meeting or a follow-up India cluster visit.