Exhibition centers – Stuttgart

Neue Messe Stuttgart (New Trade Fair Center)

Stuttgart's new trade fair centre proved to be an unparallelled success story within the first year of its opening.The prognoses for 2008 expect its turnover to rise by more than 50 per cent compared with the two previous years, reaching nearly 100 million euros. In this year alone the programme includes 17 new trade fairs. The centre with its 105 200 sq.m. of exhibition halls is more or less fully booked and has from the start shown an equally high utilisation rate as the former site on the Killesberg, which had only just over half its capacity.

The biggest event in the second half of 2008, with some 1200 exhibitors, is the AMB – the international trade fair for metal-working – which occupies the whole site, as will the R+T international trade fair for roller blinds and gates in February 2009.

In 2008 the Neue Messe Stuttgart expects to reach a record total of 17 000 exhibitors and some 1.5 million visitors at 47 trade fairs of its own and 22 with guest organisers. Particularly gratifying is the internationalisation of Stuttgart as a trade fair venue, where in the previous year the percentage of foreign exhibitors rose from 20 to 25 per cent. A further rise is expected for the current and following years.

The ICS (International Congress Center Stuttgart) has also developed satisfactorily. In the current year its programme contains some 40 events, and in the years 2009 and 2010 it has already been booked for major technology or medical congresses, including the biennial convention of the German Diabetes Society with some 7000 participants.

Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Messepiazza 1, 70629 Stuttgart
Tel. +49 (0)711/1 85 60-0
Fax +49 (0)711/1 85 60-2440
info@messe-stuttgart.de
www.messe-stuttgart.de