News Archive 2008
23.12.2008Euro Fair Statistics 2007 available
Every year auditing organizations active in 20 countries publish trade fair and exhibition statistics of the European market. This year’s publication contains audited exhibitor, visitor and rented space figures for 1,899 trade fairs and exhibitions held throughout Europe in 2007.
17.12.2008Interaction: 5th Korea Exhibition Forum
Around 150 exhibition professionals gathered at the KINTEX venue in Seoul / South Korea at the beginning of December 2008 for the 5th edition of the Korea Exhibition Forum.
15.12.2008German Foreign Trade Fair Program 2009
The German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) each year runs a foreign trade fair program, which provides both financial and organisational support for selected exhibitions outside of Germany.
15.12.2008German Trade Fair Quality Abroad 2009
Organizing know how acquired in the world's leading trade fair market is exported all around the globe. The Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) gives brand approval to trade fairs meeting German quality standards in organizing.
12.12.2008Congress City Berlin number two worldwide
Congress City Berlin ranks number two in the world. The running year is the most successful for the congress division of Messe Berlin, yet.
08.12.2008Korean Exhibition Academy
More than 20 participants successfully took part in the third edition of the Korean Exhibition Academy, a three day course held by KME Consulting Group in Seoul from 1 - 3 December 2008.
05.12.2008Losberger trusted Partner for Mega-Event in Beijing 2008
This years Olympic Games had been planned by the Chinese government as nothing less than a monumental event to display the grandeur of a nation on its way to becoming another global super power on site and in the media.
01.12.2008“Hot Spot“ Event Kazakhstan: Boom country asserting itself during crisis
On Wednesday 26 November at the Berlin Capital Club the economic champion of Central Asia was the focus of the information and matchmaking event organized by KME Consulting Group, making this Hot Spot the most successful of its kind yet.
28.10.2008Exhibition Industry: Perspectives 2009
Does the credit crunch effect the exhibition industry? Crisis management is complex and often short-winded. No one can tell, when and how the financial and economic turmoil is going to end.
27.10.2008Hot Spot Kazakhstan
KME’s next Hot Spot Event on 26 November 2008 presents booming Kazakhstan’s economy and the country’s exhibition industry.
20.10.2008Kazakh Economy on its Way to Diversification
Rich in raw materials, Kazakhstan the 9th biggest country in the world with its only 15.5 mill inhabitants, is well-equipped in a world hungry for resourses.
15.10.2008Frankfurt’s intersec for the first time in Almaty in May 2009
For the first time ever the Messe Frankfurt in cooperation with ITECA Central Asia will itself organize a trade fair in the Atakent Exhibition Center in Almaty. The topic will be security, the name of the fair is ‘intersec Central Asia’ and it will take place in May 2009 (27. - 29.05.2009).
29.07.2008Exhibition turnovers worldwide
Five exhibition groups worldwide have had a turnover of more than 300 mill Euro in the past year 2007.
21.07.2008RENEXPO Eastern Europe in November 2009 in Kyiv
KME acts as advisor for renewable energy exhibition in Ukraine
The first international trade fair covering the topic of renewable energy in Ukraine will be held from 3 - 5 November 2009 at the KyivExpoPlaza venue in the Ukrainian capital.
24.06.2008Trade Fair Markets in South Eastern Europe
Greece is by far the strongest market in South Eastern Europe when it comes to the economic power of its inhabitants measured in GDP per capita (around 21,000 €), whereas Romania is the no. 1 country concerning the population figure (over 21 mill inhabitants).
27.05.2008Average trade show budget of German companies
German companies have realised 10 trade show participations in their home country and abroad in the years 2006 - 2007. They are actually planning to spend on average about 400,000 € for the two year period 2008 - 2009 on exhibitions.
23.05.2008The KME view: German exports - getting along with the weak Dollar?
The vulnerability of the German exporting industry caused by currency exchange rates, especially the Dollar to Euro rate, has decreased during the last years. Meanwhile around 80 per cent of German exports are accounted for in Euro and only some 13 per cent in Dollar.
24.04.2008Economic growth in Asia goes slightly down
The pace of economic growth will diminish in the running year in the majority of the Asian countries. This was lately reported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
09.04.2008Turkey: Overview on exhibition venues
In the running year 2008 more than 420 exhibitions are held in Turkey, organised by around 160 exhibition organisers. In the coming year 2009 13 trade shows, held by German exhibition organisers only, demonstrate that the Turkish market has a growing importance in the international exhibition scene.
10.03.2008Developing Ukraine as an international exhibition platform
‘Hot Spot Ukraine’ with over 70 decision makers in Berlin
The number of trade fairs in Ukraine, finding international attention, is constantly increasing. In summer 2008 Ukraine will become a new member of the World Trade Organization and plans an immediate creation of a free trade zone with the European Union. The UEFA EURO 2012 provides already now additional economic impulses. These are reasons enough to know better about the Ukrainian market, not at least about its fairs and exhibitions as trade platforms.
13.02.2008KME presents the „Hot Spot Ukraine“
Business dialogue and international reception in Berlin on 28 February
Ukraine is the second most important trade partner of Germany among the CIS states. In 2007 its GDP showed an increase of 7.3 per cent and the way for Ukraine’s membership in the WTO has just been paved by the General Council of the World Trade Organization.
21.01.2008Exhibition Future 2020
Marketing Analysis predicts split-up of world leading fairs into continental events
The future scenario of the global exhibition scene is the topic of a survey done by the chair in marketing management at the HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
