Indirect profitability

Dr. Stephan Keller, Lord Mayor of the state capital of Düsseldorf: "Messe Düsseldorf is an important economic driver, location factor and employer in the state capital. Through their visitors and exhibitors, the trade show events in Düsseldorf not only generate considerable sales for the retail, hotel and catering sectors, but also generate municipal tax revenues. Through its international network, Messe Düsseldorf is bringing more and more foreign customers to Düsseldorf's world-leading trade fairs, thus - quite incidentally - generating positive publicity for Düsseldorf as a business location. In this way, it makes a decisive contribution to positioning Düsseldorf as an attractive, Rhenish-global metropolis."

Gregor Berghausen, Chairman of Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce: “Without its trade fairs, Düsseldorf would not be the leading economic hub it is today. The exhibition centre attracts to the city and the region a large number of exhibitors and visitors with great purchasing power from both within Germany and abroad. Without them, the hotel and catering trades, exhibition service providers, transport companies and retailers would generate substantially less turnover.”