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Outdoor: new partnership
Outdoor is consolidating its position in Friedrichshafen. A new contract with the sector association European Outdoor Group (EOG) will ensure that the city will remain the annual meeting place of the global outdoor sector even beyond 2013. The largest European outdoor fair has taken place in Friedrichshafen since 1994. The new partnership was signed and sealed in the run-up to the 19th edition of the fair, which this year takes place from July 12 to 15.
Back to the Libyan market
Organiser Montgomery has been the first to succeed in bringing overseas companies back to the Libyan market after the revolution. The fourth editions of two of its major international exhibitions addressing the country’s infrastructure and oil and gas sectors, Infrastructure Libya 2012 and Oil & Gas Libya 2012, attracted 4,687 registered attendees during the four days of the event, which Read now
Bauma 2013: new partner country
At Conbuild Mining Indonesia, Jakarta, the Republic of Indonesia, Messe München, and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) signed a memorandum of understanding, making Indonesia the official partner country of Bauma 2013 from April 15 to 21 in Munich. It is an opportunity for the country to make new contacts to expand the infrastructure at Bauma, the world’s largest platform. In 2011, the building industry of the country was able to grow 7%. It is the most dynamic sector of Indonesian industry.Investing more in fairs
Hans Joachim Boekstegers is confident: “The German trade fair industry has made a full recovery.” This is reflected in the expectations of the sector for the coming year. For 2012, he forecasts a slight increase in exhibitor and visitor figures in the range of 2%. “But stand floor areas will hardly grow”, the chairman of the German Trade Fair Industry (Auma) is convinced. Although domestic participation is likely to fall, foreign exhibitors are still very much interested in the German market, and by extension in German fairs, due to the relatively healthy state of the German economy, he forecasts, drawing on the results of the Auma Trade Fair Trends, a representative survey of German companies by TNS Emnid.According to that survey, which the association presented in December 2011, a large number of German companies plan to increase their trade fair budgets for 2012/2013 despite growing uncertainty about how the economy will develop. Statistics show that 30% of exhibiting companies aim to spend more on exhibitions, 55% just as much, while 15% intend to reduce their budget...read more!
New fair in 2013
British organiser Mack Brooks Exhibitions, St. Albans, is launching CCE International, Corrugated & Carton Exhibition. Taking place from March 19 to 21, 2013 at Munich trade fair centre, the show will cover the sectors raw materials, corrugated machinery and systems, converting equipment, materials handling, waste extracting and baling. It is scheduled to take place every two years.
Kap Europa
The name of the future convention centre that Messe Frankfurt will operate was unveiled on April 12, 2012. Kap Europa, as it will be called, will be erected in the immediate vicinity of the trade fair. The new destination will be constructed simultaneously with the neighbouring shopping centre by the end of 2013 / beginning of 2014. As a complement to the already existing Congress Center, the new building on four levels will offer a hall for 1,000 people, a divisible hall for 600 people and a further 12 conference rooms.
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