For 90 years the events of Koelnmesse bring markets and people together. The trade fairs are important business and communication platforms for different sectors and give new impulses to the business ...
For 90 years the events of Koelnmesse bring markets and people together. The trade fairs are important business and communication platforms for different sectors and give new impulses to the business of the participating companies. Koelnmesse is the number one exhibition centre for about 25 sectors, for which the company organizes the world's leading trade fairs. The most well-known of these events include Anuga in the food sector; imm cologne, the International Furnishing Show; gamescom, the trade fair for computer and video games; and photokina, the world's leading trade fair for the photographic and imaging sector. Every year, Koelnmesse organises and conducts more than 80 trade fairs, exhibitions, guest events, and special events in Cologne and in the world's most important markets. 2.7 million visitors from 211 countries and around 49,000 exhibitors from 117 countries regularly take part in the events. In addition, Koelnmesse's expertise and infrastructure are used every year for numerous guest events and special events, and for about 2,000 congress and conference events. The Cologne exhibition centre – with its 284,000 m² of exhibition space the fifth largest facility of its kind in the world – is just a stone's throw away from the centre of Cologne and has excellent connections to the German and international transport networks. The company's trade fairs are among the most internationally diverse in the world, with an average of over 70 per cent of exhibitors and more than a third of visitors coming from outside of Germany.