GIFTEX Tokyo 2026: What We Bring to Lifestyle Week and Why It Matters for Buyers

Every autumn, a small team from QONE packs foam samples into suitcases and flies to Tokyo. This year the destination is GIFTEX TOKYO, the Gifts & Interior Expo running alongside Lifestyle Week at Tokyo Big Sight from 7 to 9 October 2026. For a Korean manufacturer that spends most of the year inside a factory in Yeoju, three days on a trade show floor is where the next twelve months of orders usually start.

Why a factory bothers with a trade show at all

A specification sheet can describe thickness, weight and colour options reasonably well. What it cannot do is let a buyer press a corner of a 3D foam wall panel to feel how light it really is, or peel back a sample of self-adhesive insulation wallpaper to see the four-layer structure underneath. That tactile moment is the entire reason we still travel to shows instead of relying only on email and PDFs. Buyers who handle the product before they ask about price tend to ask better questions, and they tend to order sooner.

What we bring to the floor

Our stand focuses on four product families that already move through Japanese retail and beyond:

• Peel-and-stick 3D foam wall panels in brick, stone and marble patterns, designed to install without contractors, glue or tools.
• Self-adhesive insulation wallpaper built for cold walls and condensation, a category that sells every autumn as temperatures drop.
• Folding play mats and compact camping mats, made from polyethylene foam rather than PVC, which keeps them lighter and free of plasticisers.
• Private-label packaging built specifically for Japanese retail shelf conventions, from home centres to variety and 100-yen chains.

Who we want to meet

We are especially looking to talk with buyers for home centres, variety and 100-yen chains, interior and gift shops, and importers visiting Tokyo Big Sight from outside Japan. If any of that describes you, the best move is to message us a time that works and we will keep it open, rather than hoping to catch each other walking the aisles.

The part a show floor can't show

What visitors to our stand will not see directly, but which sits behind everything on the table, is our own factory in Yeoju, South Korea. We extrude, laminate, print, cut and pack our polyethylene foam under one roof, which is also why we have been able to say yes to non-standard thickness, width and construction requests that other suppliers turn down. It is the same factory that has supplied Costco Japan since 2017, that sits on shelves at Daiso Japan and Ace Hardware, and that has shipped to more than 25 countries. Every product passed the required safety testing for its category before it reached those shelves.

OEM and private label, from a small starting order

For buyers exploring a new product line, our minimum order quantity is 200 pieces per item, with FOB Busan pricing starting from USD 3.00 depending on specification. Colour, film design and packaging can all be adapted to a specific market, and we offer both adhesive and non-adhesive constructions depending on the installation method a retailer prefers.

See the samples in person, or start the conversation now

If you plan to be at Tokyo Big Sight on 7–9 October, message us for the booth location and we will have samples ready for you to handle. If Tokyo isn't on your calendar this time, the same conversation can start by email just as easily.

Chang-Hoon Lee, Director of Marketing, QONE Corporation
Email: chl@qone.kr | Web: qone.kr