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Issue 19, May 14, 2008
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Dear Sir, Dear Madam,
Investment abroad can bring many benefits for companies: a higher awareness level, international training on the job
for employees, and new business openings.
Exhibition companies - including venues - are changing hands. It will be very interesting to see how globalisation
internationalisation strategies are implemented - they do, after all, call for lots of inter-cultural finesse.
Your m+a | UFI Exhibition Newsletter Team
Top news of this week
Adnec: Significant investments in Europe and Abu Dhabi
ITE acquires Siberian Fair
Ho Chi Minh's new SECC exerts a pull
Ifema prepares expansion
Düsseldorf doing well
Messe Düsseldorf: Two Chinese spin-offs a year
Textile marketing - a fast-growing segment
Combined in Poznan: Glass and stone
Fastener Fair Budapest new to Hungary
APLF to launch new footwear-related event in India
International Summer University 2008: ISU registration now open
Exhibition News Flashes
People in the News
Good to know
Association News
Industry Shows
Adnec: Significant investments in Europe and Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (Adnec), which operates one of the
world's most modern exhibition and convention centres in the United Arab
Emirates, has acquired control of Excel London, the UK capital's leading exhibition
and conference venue, through a UK subsidiary. The acquisition, valued at more
than € 400 million, is part of Adnec's strategy of developing a global network of
venues to serve the international exhibitions industry. Excel London will act as a
cornerstone for the development of a blue-chip brand utilizing the existing
expertise and reputation of both Excel and Adnec. The proposed plans for the
UAE's capital's Al Ain Convention Centre, a new € 615 million development
projected by Adnec, were also released. The new centre covers an area of
275,000 m² with a total of 220,000 m² available to investors. It will feature three
main oasis public plazas surrounded by a community of ten clusters, a cultural
centre and conference centre (5,000 m² total conference space and a 2,250 m²
grand hall that can be divided into 4 subsections). A 16,500 m² 4-star hotel with
225 rooms will be linked to the conference centre. (se) www.adnec.ae
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ITE acquires Siberian Fair
ITE Group, London, announced the acquisition of 100 % of the issued share
capital of Siberian Fair, an exhibitions business based in Siberia, for a total cash
consideration of US$ 12.1 m. At home in Novosibirsk, Siberian Fair owns a
comprehensive portfolio of 30 exhibitions servicing business requirements in the
Novosibirsk region. The largest exhibitions are in construction, furniture & interiors,
motor, food products & packaging and agriculture. In 2007 the business, which
has around 160 employees, generated revenue of approximately US$ 10 m and
profit before tax of approximately US$ 3.5 m. The business will be managed by
ITE's Moscow office, with operational continuity provided by 42 year-old Sergey
Vladimirovich Tsoy, the chief executive of Siberian Fair since 2003, who will
remain with the firm. The acquisition further strengthens ITE's core activities in the
growing markets of Russia and the CIS and is complementary to the sector profile
of the Group's exhibition portfolio. (se) www.ite-exhibitions.com
People in the News
Expomedia Group appointed Matthew
Benyon to the position of Managing
Director EME UK, with effect from May
19, 2008. Benyon's remit is to develop
the Group's existing portfolio of UK
exhibitions through organic growth
and acquisition. He will also assume
responsibility for the matrix role across
Expomedia Events as head of
exhibitions for the Group. In this
position he will work closely with the
country heads in each market to
develop the Group's overall exhibition
portfolio. For the past ten years
Benyon has run the sales and
marketing agency division (OTSA) of
Montgomery, developing the business
from the traditional markets of the UK
and Ireland to incorporate Germanspeaking
Europe and later, India. He
also launched Montgomery
International in 2002.
Patrick Hof (31) took over on April 1,
2008 as head of the press office at
GHM, Munich, which organises crafts
fairs. He is also the company's press
spokesman. Hof succeeded Ulrich
Probst (60), who left the company at
the end of last year. Having studied
history and media law in Munich and
Italy, Hof was assigned the press
duties in July 2007 for the crafts
exhibition organiser's trade fair
themes.
The board of the DLG German
Agricultural Society has appointed
Jochen Köckler (38) as one of DLG
chief general manager Reinhard
Grandke's deputies. With the DLG
since May 1999, Köckler, is general
manager of the exhibitions division.
Sabrina van der Ley has been
replaced as art director of the Art
Forum Berlin, the contemporary art
exhibition that she had managed since
2000, by a management duo imported
from Switzerland: Eva-Maria Häusler
(43) and Peter Vetsch (55). Häusler
was previously manager of Art Basel
and Art Basel Miami Beach, and
Vetsch was responsible for
communications there.

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Ho Chi Minh's new SECC exerts a pull
The premier industrial exhibition in Vietnam has a new home. EPM Vietnam
makes its eleventh appearance at the new Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center
(SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, combining for the second time three trade fairs under
one roof. Between October 30 and November 2, 2008 EPM Energy Electricity &
Environmental Protection, EPM Machine Tool Saigon and H20 Vietnam
(organised by Planetfair, Hamburg, Germany) will draw visitors to Vietnam from
Asia and many other countries throughout the world. The show is now also being
staged annually. For 2008 well over 200 exhibitors are expected, displaying their
programmes on a total area covering more than 8,500 m². In close cooperation
with co-organisers Chan Chao International, Taipei, Taiwan, Hannover Messe
International has brought the three tradeshows together. The SECC will ultimately
comprise four indoor exhibition halls totalling 40,000 m², additional outdoor
exhibition space of between 15,000 and 20,000 m², a 2,000-seat convention
centre, a high-rise office tower, and two international standard hotels. Occupying
117,886 m², it is owned by the Saigontourist Holding Company (60 %) and the
Phu My Hung Corporation (40%). (se) www.secc.com.vn and www.epmmachinetool-saigon.com
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Ifema prepares expansion
The structural works for the Ifema-Valdebebas connecting tunnel have been
concluded, which means that future expansions at Feria de Madrid can be
planned. The tunnel will link the current fairground at Feria de Madrid with the
roughly 500,000 m² plot that Ifema has set aside in Valdebebas. Ifema will be able
to expand on 250,000 m², using this area to cater for its future growth needs.
Construction costs will entail investment by Ifema amounting to € 3 million. The
tunnel, which is 144.90 m long and features a minimum free height of 5 m and free
width of 25 m, is expected be ready in August 2008. Inside the tunnel there will be
two pedestrian pavements, each 3 m wide, a four-lane road and a platform for light
transport. (se) www.ifema.es
TOP
Düsseldorf doing well
An economic tailwind and strong international business drove up group revenues
for Messe Düsseldorf in 2007 by almost 14 % to roughly € 354 m - a nice 60th
anniversary performance in a year that does not feature among the company's top
sellers. The bulk of the growth in turnover stemmed from Düsseldorf-based Messe
Düsseldorf, which slated revenues of almost € 259 m, up from the previous year's
€ 212 m. 38 % of group revenues (40 % in the previous year) were generated
abroad, the majority in the Czech Republic, Russia and China. Group profit after
tax climbed to more than € 33 m, following a negative result of € 7.4 m in 2006.
And what is in store for 2008? The exhibition company's CEO provided the answer
personally: "Success!" After all, Euroshop, Interpack and Drupa all take place this
year. (ch) www.messe-duesseldorf.de
TOP
Messe Düsseldorf: Two Chinese spin-offs a year
Messe Düsseldorf will continue to invest in China, so Joachim Erwin, chairman of
the exhibition company's supervisory board, announced early in May at the results
press conference. "Given sustained market momentum, in the coming years we
plan to place an average of two new events a year on the Chinese exhibition
market. We have plenty of irons in the fire, a number of further spin-offs from fairs
in Düsseldorf are currently being discussed," Erwin said, although he did not
elaborate any further. In 2007 Messe Düsseldorf China (MDC), set up in 1999,
organised six exhibitions, this year nine shows are on the agenda. The company
produced profits running well into the hundreds of thousands, but most of this is
being ploughed back into further development of the product range, Erwin
announced. (ch) www.messe-duesseldorf.de
TOP
Textile marketing - a fast-growing segment
From April 21 to 24, 2009 Poznan is devoting a new trade fair entitled Tekspro to
the subject of textile marketing. The new event will deliver a broad range of
information on textile finishing, textile screen printing, digital textile printing, textile
embroidery, textiles and printing materials, textile transfer, textile flocking and
services. Collocated with Tekspro at Poznan International Fair will be Poligrafia,
the international specialist trade fair for printing machines, materials and services,
and Euro-Reklama Outdoor Expo, the international specialist trade fair for
advertising media and services. In 2007 these two events welcomed more than
14,000 professional visitors from the printing and advertising industry. The
premiere of Tekspro is organised by H & K Messe, Stuttgart, Germany and
Poznan International Fair, Poland. (se) www.hundkmesse.de
TOP
Mike Closier, 61, Group Chief
Executive of Scottish Exhibition +
Conference Centre SECC since 1992,
has been appointed Executive Deputy
Chairman of the company with the
brief of delivering Scotland's National
Arena Project, which includes not only
the arena but the redevelopment of
the East and West sectors of the site.
John Sharkey, 42, currently Finance
Director at SECC, becomes Group
Chief Executive, assuming full
responsibility for the entire business
operation of the SECC group.
Agrokomplex-Vystavnictvo Nitra in the
Slovak Republic has announced
Miloslav Pisár as its new general
director.
Guy Bolly has been named secretary
general of Brussels Fairs &
Exhibitions.
Premier Kids is introducing Lara
Anderson as its new Event Manager,
as Saba Buckley has opted to
become a full-time mother. Anderson
joins the show from another division of
Emap, where she spent three years as
ad director. The next edition of
Premier Kids organised by Emap
takes place July 6 to 8, 2008 at the
NEC in Birmingham.
Good to know
The World Ophthalmology Congress
(WOC) 2008 will be held June 28 to
July 2 in Hong Kong. The WOC is a
world-leading biennial ophthalmology
event to help facilitate improved
treatments that will benefit millions of
sufferers from eye diseases. More
than 1,000 faculty members and
10,000 delegates from over 110
countries are expected to participate
in the 2008 convention.
Alibaba.com has announced its firstquarter
2008 results. The B2B ecommerce
company's total revenue
soared to € 62.8 million, an increase
of 53.2 % year-on-year and 7.2 %
quarter-on-quarter. Operating profit
was € 28.8 million, an increase of
81.0 % year-on-year and 67.1 %
quarter-on-quarter.
After twelve years, one of the leading
boat shows in Asia - the China
International Boat Show at the
Shanghai Exhibition Centre - is being
audited for the first time in its history
by BPA Worldwide. The show is
organised by CMP Sinoexpo in
association with the China Boat
Industry and Trade Association
(CBITA).
Association News
The Events Industry Alliance (EIA)
has secured formal partnerships with
three representative international
events industry bodies: the
Exhibition & Event Association of
Australasia (EEAA)
(www.eeaa.com.au), the Irish
Exhibition Organisers Association
(IEOA) (www.ieoa.ie) and
International Exhibition Logistics

Combined in Poznan: Glass and stone
A new entry, to be held November 15 to 18, 2008, has appeared in the Poznan
International Fair event calendar. With recent years seeing continuous
development of the stone and glass sectors, Poznan International Fair has
decided to organise the first-ever fair in Poznan focused exclusively on these two
industries. Glass & Stone 2008 provides an opportunity to showcase products and
technologies used in glass and stone processing. The thematic spectrum will
encompass raw materials, machines and devices for the glass and ceramics
industry, chemicals used in glass and ceramics production, tools and power tools,
cutting and abrasive materials, modern technical and IT systems for the glass and
stone sectors, and more besides. (se) www.glasstone.pl
TOP
Fastener Fair Budapest new to Hungary
Fastener and fixing specialists from eastern Europe will be brought together with
sales companies, importers and exporters on September 22 and 23, 2008 at the
maiden Fastener Fair Budapest in the Hungarian capital's Syma Event Center.
Jerry Ramsdale, organiser of the Fastener Fair Budapest: "For many years global
manufacturing and production firms headed for China and the Far East." But now
he sees eastern Europe's chances growing, a trend he puts down to cost
increases for raw materials and the rising cost of shipping from the Far East to
Europe, alongside escalating labour costs. Ramsdale organises another Fastener
Fair in Stuttgart and publishes the Fastener & Fixing Magazine. (se)
www.fastenerfair.com
TOP
APLF to launch new footwear-related event in India
A new trade fair initiative in India is being launched by APLF. Footwear, Materials,
Manufacturing & Technology (FMM&T) will take place in the spring of 2009 in
Delhi. It will be organised in association with the Indian Footwear Components
Manufacturers Association (IFCOMA), one of the leading trade associations
servicing the US$ 5 billion Indian footwear industry, with the support of other
relevant trade associations. Every year in Hong Kong since 1984, APLF, a joint
venture between CMP Asia and SIC, Paris, has organised one of the most
important leather-related trade fairs in the world, APLF - Material, Manufacturing
and Technology (MM&T), and the biannual fashion accessories event Fashion
Access. The largest of its kind in Asia, this highlights footwear, handbags,
travelware and a wide range of fashion accessories sourced from all over the
world. (se) www.aplf.com and www.ifcoma.org
TOP
International Summer University 2008: ISU registration now open
The Institute of Trade Fair Management, in cooperation with UFI, the Global
Association of the Exhibition Industry, is organising the 3rd International Summer
University for Trade Fair Management from August 25 to 29, 2008 in Cologne,
Germany. Held in English, the one-week seminar targets present and future trade
fair and exhibition company executives. This year's ISU theme is The Global
Trade Fair Industry - Challenges Now and Beyond. (se) www.messe.uni-koeln.de
and www.ufi.org
TOP
Exhibition News Flashes
More than 200 companies from throughout Poland and its neighbouring countries
are reported by organisers DLG Agro Food, Poznan, Poland ahead of the
agricultural exhibition Opolagra 2008. That is roughly 10 % more than a year ago.
On the grounds of Opole Aeroclub in Polska Nowa Wies in Komprachcice near
Opole (south-west Poland) a comprehensive range of technology will be on show
June 6 to 8, 2008 for modern plant production and professional animal husbandry.
After 29 editions in Deauville, Top Resa, the key meeting place for tourism and
travel professionals organised by Reed Expositions France, is moving to the
French capital. Renamed Top Resa, Paris International Travel Market, the show
takes place September 16 to 19 at Porte de Versailles.
The 11th China International Ice Cream Industry Exhibition organised by Tianjin
Qilong Exhibition Service will be held October 21 to 24, 2008 in Tianjin
International Exhibition Center. Icecream China is well known among
manufacturers and suppliers of equipment and raw materials in the frozen food
industry. In 2007, the fair attracted 312 companies and more than 27,762 visitors
worldwide with a total exhibition area of 20,000 m².
TATEF - International Metalworking Technologies Exhibition, Istanbul,
Turkey has a new date, November 25 to 30, 2008. Its organiser ITF - Istanbul
Trade Fairs, a subsidiary of CNR and Gima, Hamburg, had originally planned the
show October 14 to 19, 2008.
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Associates (IELA) (www.iela.org).
EIA group chief executive, Trevor
Foley comments: "Three new
partnerships stand testament to what
EIA is all about. The collective official
support from EEAA, IEOA and IELA,
not to mention their highly
constructive financial investment in
our 'promotional pot', will greatly
assist EIA to further strengthen its
already influential voice".
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May 21 to 22 / Sydney - Australia
AEE - Australian Events Expo
Jun 2 to 4 / Batalha - Portugal
Exposhow - Products and Services
for Exhibitions and Events
Jun 6 / Stuttgart - Germany STB -
Kontakte.Ideen.Erlebnisse - Exhibition
for the Seminar and Convention
Industry
Jun 10 to 12 / Sandton - South Africa
Markex & World of Events -
Marketing, Promotions and Special
Events Exhibition
Jun 11 / Cologne - Germany MITM
euromed - Meeting and Incentive
Trade Market
Jun 11 to 12 / San Jose - USA
Hsmai’s Affordable Meetings West
Exposition and Conference
Jun 16 to 18 / Moscow - Russia
5pEXPO - International Forum for the
Exhibition Industry
Jun 18 to 20 / Madrid - Spain Event -
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Jun 25 to 26 / London - United
Kingdom Exhibiting Show - 100's of
Ideas for Your Next Exhibition
Jun 25 to 26 / London - United
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LIVE - London Venue Expo
Jul 4 to 6 / Kiev - Ukraine Expo
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