The Main Fair Venues : Germany

Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Dussel-dorf, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart are the main German fair venues. The world’s two largest fairs are held in Hanover. The Hanover Fair, founded in 1947, showcases the global spectrum of products for numerous branches of the capital goods industry. In 7 about 7,100 exhibitors displayed their goods on an area of approximately 280,000 square meters. Hanover is also the venue of “CeBIT", a fair devoted to office, information and telecommunications technologies which emerged from the Hanover Fair in 1986.

In 1997 CeBIT attracted roughly 6,800 exhibitors who presented their products on an area of about 350,000 square meters. 1996 marked the inauguration of “CeBIT Home", a specialized fair for home and consumer electronics which will be held every two years in the future. Other important fairs held in Hanover are “EMO” (The World of Machine Tools), the International Motor Show (IAA) - Commercial Vehicles, and “LIGNA” (World Fair for Machinery and Equipment for the Wood and Forestry Industries).