Deutsche Messe AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | August 16, 1947 |
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Hanover , Germany
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| management | Jochen Köckler (CEO), Andreas Gruchow |
| Number of employees | 1227 |
| sales | 310 million euros |
| Branch | Trade shows |
| Website | www.messe.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The German Messe AG , based in Hanover is an organizer of capital goods fairs at home and abroad. With a turnover of 310 million euros in 2018, it is one of the five largest German trade fair companies. The event portfolio includes leading international trade fairs such as Didacta (education), Domotex (carpets and floor coverings), Hannover Messe (industrial technologies), Interschutz (fire brigade, rescue services, civil protection and security), Labvolution (laboratory technology) and Ligna (tools , Machines and systems for woodworking and processing). Deutsche Messe also organizes other trade fairs at other locations in Germany, such as Parts2clean ( parts cleaning) or SurfaceTechnology (surface technology). In addition, the exhibition grounds regularly host guest events, the leading trade fairs in their industries: Agritechnica (DLG; agricultural technology) and EuroTier (DLG; livestock farming), EMO (VDW; machine tools), EuroBlech (Mack Brooks; sheet metal processing) and IAA Commercial Vehicles (VDA; Transport, logistics, mobility). Deutsche Messe's portfolio also includes events in Australia, China, Indonesia, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and the USA. These include trade fairs from the automotive, ICT & digital business, manufacturing & processing industries, energy & logistics and metal processing sectors. With more than 1200 employees and 58 sales partners, Deutsche Messe is present in around 100 countries.
history
As early as the spring of 1947, the British occupation authorities announced in the bulletin of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the heading "Miscellaneous":
“Export Fair 1947 Hanover. From August 18 to September 7, 1947 the export fair for the western zones takes place in Hanover. In five exhibition halls with 30,000 m², the German industry shows exportf. Quality products. Stand registrations to: Deutsche Messe- und Exposition-AG, Hannover-Laatzen. "
Within 99 days, the partially destroyed or dismantled factory halls located on the premises of the Hannover Metal Works (MEHA) in Laatzen were prepared for the trade fair. In the last few days before the opening, 4,600 people worked on the site. For example, 250 tons of iron, 2,100 m³ of wood, 90,000 m² of hardboard, 300,000 bricks, 340 tons of cement, 1,000 m³ of gravel, 300 m³ of sand, 10,000 m² of glass and 2,400 m² of roofing felt were used.
On August 16, 1947, the German Exhibition and Exhibition Company Hannover-Laatzen was entered in the commercial register with a share capital of 1.2 million Reichsmarks. Two days later, on Monday, August 18, 1947, the 1947 Hanover Export Fair began . It lasted 21 days and was attended by 736,000 visitors. Orders were only allowed by the specialist audience and only for foreign accounts. 1,934 export contracts were concluded for a total of around 31.6 million US dollars. Foreign visitors came from a total of 53 nations, half of them from overseas.
In the following years, the site and infrastructure were expanded, as was the range of programs. Deutsche Messe experienced the biggest investment boost in its sixty-year history from extensive preparations for the Expo 2000 world exhibition . In the period from 1990 to 2000, more than 800 million euros were expended to expand the Hanover trade fair center in line with the world's fair and at the same time to keep it competitive.
Today, Deutsche Messe AG organizes various leading trade fairs: Domotex , Hannover Messe , IdeenExpo , Ligna + , Interschutz , EMO Hannover , IAA Commercial Vehicles , CeMAT , Biotechnica , EuroBLECH , Agritechnica and EuroTier .
Group structure
The trade fair company is a member of the Association of Large-Scale German Trade Fairs . V. and in 2018 ranked 6th in terms of sales behind Messe Frankfurt , Messe München , Messe Berlin , KölnMesse and Messe Nürnberg .
Shareholders
| shareholder | Share in the share capital |
| State of Lower Saxony | 49.9355% |
| State capital Hanover | 49.9355% |
| Hanover region | 0.129% |
22 representatives from the state, the state capital, the exhibiting companies and the employees sit on the supervisory board. The chairman of the supervisory board is Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony's Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport. In May 2010, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen sold its stake of 0.207% for a symbolic euro in equal parts to the state of Lower Saxony and the state capital Hanover.
Due to the ownership structure, Deutsche Messe AG is a public company. According to the so-called Transparency Directive of the EU (Directive 2000/52 / EC of the Commission of July 26, 2000), a public company is “any company to which the public sector is based on the basis of ownership, financial participation, statutes or other provisions that the Regulate the company's activities and exercise a controlling influence directly or indirectly. "
Numbers, dates and facts
| Area of the exhibition grounds: | 2,249,834 m² |
| Number of halls: | 24 |
| Total hall area: | 1,233,826 m² |
| Outdoor area: | around 58,000 m² |
| Exhibitor 2016: | 26,039 |
| - of which foreign exhibitors: | 10,676 |
| Visitors 2016: | 1,510,573 |
| - of which foreign visitors: | 270,870 |
| Parking spaces: | 39,000 cars (of which 8,790 in parking garages) |
| Train: | 2 stops of the Hannover Stadtbahn ( Messe / Ost , lines 6 and 16 and Messe / Nord , lines 8 and 18) |
| DB train station 340 m from the exhibition center | |
| Board: | Jochen Köckler (CEO), Andreas Gruchow |
literature
- Max Walter Clauss: Meeting Point Future. The economic development as reflected in the Hanover Fair. 1st edition, Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-430-11878-6
- Dieter Tasch : 50 years of the future. Trade fairs in Hanover 1947 - 1997 . Published by Deutsche Messe AG, Grütter, Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-9801063-9-X
- Klaus Mlynek : Deutsche Messe AG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 127f.
Web links
- messe.de - Official website of Deutsche Messe
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Management Board and Supervisory Board at messe.de, accessed on December 30, 2019
- ↑ a b Deutsche Messe AG - Annual Report 2018 (pdf) messe.de, accessed on December 30, 2019
- ↑ Key figures of the trade fair industry 2019 (AUMA, as of January 1, 2019) (PDF) accessed on January 10, 2020.
- ↑ Andreas Schinkel: Bremen gives up stake in Messe AG. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 11, 2010, p. 12
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 26 ″ N , 9 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ E