Koelnmesse is the number one exhibition centre for about 25 sectors, for which the company organises the world’s leading trade fairs. Koelnmesse’s key areas of expertise are “Global Competence in Food and FoodTec”, with trade fairs such as Anuga and ISM, “Global Competence in Furniture, Interiors and Design”, with imm cologne and ORGATEC, for example, and “Digital Media, Entertainment and Mobility”, which addresses important future-oriented themes at events such as gamescom, photokina and dmexco.
Every year, Koelnmesse organises and manages around 80 trade fairs, exhibitions, guest events and special events in Cologne and in the most important markets worldwide. Approximately 3 million visitors from 221 countries and more than 53,500 exhibiting companies from 122 countries regularly take part in the events.
The Cologne exhibition centre - whose 284,000 m² of exhibition space make it the third-largest in Germany and one of the Top Ten 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: On average, 70 percent of exhibitors and more than 40 percent of visitors coming from abroad.
