27.02.2013
Children’s books with light switches, wafer-thin luminous tiles and handbags with inbuilt mobile phone chargers – when printing meets electronics, many wishes may come true. The new methods promise diverse potential applications, inexpensive production and mass market appeal. Once confined to the laboratory, Printed Electronics has now become an industrialised field with huge market potential in a wide range of sectors. Messe Düsseldorf is responding to this trend and organising the special show PEPSO – Printed Electronics Products and Solutions at seven relevant trade fairs at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre.
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16.01.2013
Consolidated sales increased to EUR 380 million +++ Sales of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH approx. 6 % above budget +++ Extended portfolio of international events +++ Complete refurbishing of halls at the Düsseldorf site until 2024
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16.01.2013
Financial year 2012: 23 own events and 14 partnered events +++ drupa 2012 was one of the major revenue drivers +++ Resounding success for new event formats +++ 2013 with new events and “K” as its highlight
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16.01.2013
Focus on new growth markets +++ Strong demand for capital goods trade fairs +++ Position has been confirmed as a leading international event organiser
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16.01.2013
Future Technologies to be given a More Prominent Position +++ Recruiting Service makes Trade Fair a Platform for New Talent
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Bernhard Stempfle
28.06.2010
At its meeting on 23 June 2010 the supervisory board of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH chaired by Lord Mayor Dirk Elbers, has appointed Bernhard Johannes Stempfle (45) as the new Chief Financial Officer. In this position he succeeds Herbert Vogt (63), who will be retiring from the company on 31 August 2010.
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06.07.2012
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH has recently renewed its partnership with the German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund - DOSB) and its collaboration with the National Paralympic Committee Germany (Deutscher Behindertensportverband - DBS). The expert for trade fair and event management will organise the German Houses as meeting points for athletes, economic partners, politicians and media at the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic games in Sochi and in 2016 in Rio De Janeiro for DOSB and DBS. This agreement was reached between Messe Düsseldorf and the German Sports Marketing Company (DSM), acting as official marketing agency of the DOSB and the DBS. The renewal of the cooperation was announced during media talks regarding the German House London in Düsseldorf on 6 July.
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23.05.2012
Group sales revenues increased to €373 million +++
Group reports results of €39 million +++
Results of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH almost €14 million +++
Group equity ratio improved to around 50 percent +++
Degree of internationalisation unchanged at high level
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Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
24.01.2012
Group sales increased to 360 million euros +++ International share of Group sales high at 29 percent +++ Messe Düsseldorf GmbH expecting result of more than 15 million euros after tax
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01.06.2011
One of the most important masterminds of the German and international trade fair business, Kurt Schoop, celebrates his 90th birthday on 1 June 2011.
From 1967 to 1984 Schoop was Chairman of the Management Board of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH. He was instrumental in promoting the building of the new Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre opening in 1971 with great international acclaim.
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01.06.2011
As from 1 June 2011 Clemens Hauser (49) will be the Technical Director of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH and will have full statutory power. He is taking over the responsibilities of Managing Director Wilfried Moog, who is retiring on 31 May.
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20.05.2011
Turnover increased to € 335 million +++ International quota of the group turnover stabilised at 32 percent +++ Accumulated profits of € 161 million posted +++ Equity ratio increased to 45.9 percent
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Werner M. Dornscheidt
09.06.2010
Messe Düsseldorf Group's 2009 balance sheet reflects the effects of trade fair rhythms and economic crisis. Russia, the Czech Republic and China remain strong foreign markets +++ Messe Düsseldorf GmbH closed the year 2009 higher than planned in spite of the expected low sales volume. Company-organised events were stronger than the national average +++ Werner M. Dornscheidt: "We were able to compensate for crisis-related drops in company business through disciplined cost control within the GmbH. We expect a black zero for 2010."
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17.03.2010
Yesterday, Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO & President of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, was delighted to congratulate Martin Braxentaler on his Gold Medal at the “Deutsches Haus” in Vancouver. This is the eighth Paralympic Gold Medal Braxenthaler has won for Germany and the second Gold Medal for the German team at the 10th Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.
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19.02.2010
The state capital Düsseldorf will be participating with its own pavilion entitled "Business meets Lifestyle - Liveable City and Sustainable Development in Duesseldorf" at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China. The subcontractor for the entire presentation of the state capital is the trade fair company, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH.
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Werner M. Dornscheidt
19.02.2010
Despite economic crisis and a cyclically weak exhibition year: stable development of events in Düsseldorf and expansion of the international exhibition programme
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14.01.2010
The Seminar-Allianz (Seminar Alliance) of German-speaking trade fair organisers will be offering event managers and key officers a significantly extended range of seminars from 2010. In response to great demand in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, some sixty events will address subjects such as “Trade Fairs as Marketing Tools”, “Professional Trade Fair Planning”, “Success Control Trade Fair”, “Stand Construction and Design Crash Course”, “The Professional Trade Fair Conversation” as well as “Press Liaison and Media Work for Trade Fairs”.
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12.01.2010
The time has come: the new Messe Düsseldorf GmbH Internet service is now available – the successful relaunch of a powerful, clearly structured and comprehensively informative Internet platform, which displays the international range offered by the Messe Düsseldorf Group in world trade fair business at one click.
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Hans Werner Reinhard
27.11.2009
Presided by its Chairman, Lord Mayor Dirk Elbers, the supervisory board at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH in today’s meeting laid the foundations for the generation change in company management on the horizon in the next two years. Hans Werner Reinhard (39) was unanimously appointed Deputy Member of the Board of Management. He follows Wilhelm Niedergöker, Managing Director of the company since 2002 whose contract ends on 31 May 2010.
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09.06.2009
2008 was a successful year, and 2009 is on track to be even better – this is the positive review and outlook that DüsseldorfCongress Veranstaltungs-GmbH is able to deliver after the first half of this business year.
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08.05.2009
Best trade fair year of any trade fair company with its own site.
Düsseldorf events business stable: Strong economic impetus for city and region.
CEO Werner M. Dornscheidt: “Sustainable business cushions impact of recession and makes us fit for the future.”
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