Messe Frankfurt
We make markets. Worldwide
With 406 million euros in sales, Messe Frankfurt is the world’s largest trade fair organiser with its own exhibition grounds. The Group boasts a global network of 15 subsidiaries, five branch offices and 48 foreign representative offices.
Messe Frankfurt has a presence in more than 150 countries for its customers, and events “made by Messe Frankfurt” take place at more than 30 locations around the world. In 2006, Messe Frankfurt organised a total of 110 trade fairs, of which 64 took place outside Germany.
The traditional heart of the company is and remains its home location in Frankfurt, which played host to more than 44,500 exhibitors and some 1.7 million visitors in 2006.
Frankfurt has been a renowned trade fair site for more than 800 years. In the past, traders and businesspeople met at the Römer town hall, while they later congregated at the new grounds by the Festhalle. Today, the Frankfurt exhibition grounds are the third largest in the world, with 578,000 square metres in total area, nine halls and an adjacent congress centre.
Messe Frankfurt is a publicly owned company. The City of Frankfurt owns 60 percent of the company, while the State of Hesse holds 40 percent. The company employs some 1,400 people around the globe.
Approx. 40 trade fairs and more than 200 events, congresses and conferences take place each year in Frankfurt, including leading international flagship fairs, such as Ambiente, Tendence Lifestyle, Beautyworld, Christmasworld and Paperworld for the consumer goods industry, Heimtextil, Techtextil and Texcare International which are part of the portfolio of textile fairs and Automechanika which represents the automotive industry. Other technical fields feature Light & Building, IFFA, Musikmesse and Prolight+Sound. Each one of these trade fairs reflects the international market for its industry.
In addition to its own events, Frankfurt also hosts world-renowned guest events. These include the International Motor Show (IAA), the Book Fair and Achema.
