FIBO 2007

Essen. With visitor numbers increased slightly by 1.8 percent compared to the previous year, FIBO finished on Sunday in Essen. After numbers had declined in the years before, the organisers, Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH, again registered growing interest among visitors with a total of 44,480 visitors (previous year 43,700). “It was a FIBO of a new dynamic, new attraction and an increasingly international character“, is how Hans-Joachim Erbel, Managing Director of Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH, sums up the four days of the fair. This was also the feeling among the 385 exhibitors from more than 35 nations (13 percent up from the previous year), who registered a marked pick-up in demand.  ...