Hans Werner Reinhard

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.

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.

"Today’s appointment of Mr Reinhard marks an important step in our management rejuvenation process. Only with continuity and long-term outlook from the management team can Messe Düsseldorf continue to hold its own at the top of the global trade fair business," explains a delighted Lord Mayor Dirk Elbers, Supervisory Board Chairman at the trade fair company. "We have achieved what other trade fair companies have failed to do in recent times. We are in a position to fill management posts internally from our own staff. Mr Reinhard is young, knows the company and has proven his talent in the trade fair business as an authorised signatory over the past few years. This early personnel decision makes it possible to hand over business in the proper manner and provides continuity within the company. We thank Mr Niedergöker for his achievements. We shall give him a suitable send off in May 2010," Elbers continued.

Hans Werner Reinhard studied international business administration at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel spending terms abroad in Buenos Aires (RA) and Berkeley (USA). Already at that early stage he wrote his dissertations on trade fair-related topics. After completing his studies he began his professional career in 1997 at Messe Düsseldorf International in the project team responsible for running the German Pavilion at EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In October 1999 he moved with Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, to Leipziger Messe and worked there in various positions on the departmental and project management level. Since January 2004 Reinhard has been authorised signatory at the Düsseldorf trade fair company and is currently in charge of the department Domestic Trade Fairs 2.

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Contact:

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
Dr. Andrea Gränzdörffer
Phone: +49 (0)211 4560-555
Fax: +49 (0)211 4560-8548
E-Mail: graenzdoerffera@messe-duesseldorf.de

Düsseldorf, 27 November 2009

 
The Messe Düsseldorf Group

With turnover of Euro 496 m in 2008 the Messe Düsseldorf Group is the most successful German trade fair company and the most successful trade fair company with its own site worldwide. In this unusual year 32,488 exhibitors presented their products to almost two million visitors here. With 50 specialist fairs, 23 of which are leading fairs worldwide in the five fields of competence machinery, plant and equipment, trade, skilled trades and services, medicine and health, fashion and lifestyle in addition to leisure at the Düsseldorf location and at some 120 of its own events and participations abroad Messe Düsseldorf Gruppe is one of the leading export platforms worldwide. This means Messe Düsseldorf GmbH ranks as the No. 1 company in terms of internationality for investment goods fairs: just under 60% of exhibitors and over 50% of visitors come to Düsseldorf from abroad and customers from a total of 151 countries attend our trade fairs in Düsseldorf. Sales outposts in 117 countries (over 66 foreign representations) and competence centres in nine countries form the global network of the group of companies. The group employs an annual average of 1,503 people.

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