Here below the official press release of Cosmofarma 2020 postponement:

The event will take place from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th of April 2021

June 08, 2020 - BOS srl, the organizing company of Cosmofarma Exhibition, announces that the 24th edition is postponed to 2021: the event, scheduled from 17th to 19th of April 2020, will take place from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 April 2021, at the Bologna Fiere exhibition center.

"As the emergency goes on it is necessary to suspend the 2020 edition of Cosmofarma and rescheduling it in 2021 - declares Gianfranco Ferilli, CEO at BOS srl - We prefer not to accept the forced displacements of 2020 from April to May and then to October, but we renew our original plan of the Bologna Health week and its two fairs, Cosmofarma and Exposanità, at the same time in April 2021. We are confident that next year will be an even more important and sensitive appointment of the Italian public health world."

"Even if our country hopes to have overcome the worst moment of this pandemic, also thanks to the efforts of all Italian pharmacists, the time has not yet come to relax security measures that have allowed us to reach this more favorable phase - declares Andrea Mandelli, President at FOFI - For this reason we have responsibly decided to postpone the exhibition next spring. The entire Italian pharmaceutical sector is highly committed in responding to the country's needs and I am sure that from this crisis it will emerge even stronger. The 2021 Cosmofarma edition will be an opportunity to prove it."

"The coronavirus emergency unfortunately requires a further postponement of Cosmofarma, where the pharmacy will arrive stronger after monthes of working in the front line to ensure citizens' health - declares Marco Cossolo, President at Federfarma - The pandemic has accelerated the evolution of the pharmacy with positive practices for the future, like the expansion of the distribution of many medicines that were previously distributed through public facilities. Training, as the main theme of the next Cosmofarma edition confirms a key role for the future of the pharmacy as a NHS pillar, aiming to be increasingly professional to promptly face the population's health needs ".