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Clarion Events is the world's largest privately owned event and exhibition organiser, known for our innovative approach, market-leading super brands and digital products. Founded in 1947, we have expanded to become a truly international organisation with offices in 12 countries. With a portfolio of 125 events and media brands across various vertical markets, we employ around 2,000 people worldwide. At Clarion we aim to foster growth for both our clients and partners by delivering exceptional events and platforms while retaining talented employees and nurturing loyal partnerships. We focus on creating long-term value and sustaining leadership in all our sectors. It’s our true passion for customer satisfaction that sets us aside.

The Messe Frankfurt Group is one of the world’s leading trade fair, congress and event organisers with their own exhibition grounds. With a workforce of around 2,500 people at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and in 29 subsidiaries, it organises events around the world. Group sales in the financial year 2024 were around € 775 million. We serve our customers’ business interests efficiently within the framework of our Fairs & Events, Locations and Services business fields. Sustainable business practices are a central pillar in our corporate strategy and strike a healthy balance between ecological and economic interests, social responsibility and diversity. Another of our strengths is our powerful and closely knit global sales network, which covers around 180 countries in all regions of the world. Our comprehensive range of services – both onsite and online – ensures that customers worldwide enjoy consistently high quality and flexibility when planning, organising and running their events. We are using our digital expertise to develop new business models. The wide range of services includes renting exhibition grounds, trade fair construction and marketing, personnel and food services. With our headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, our company is owned by the City of Frankfurt (60 percent) and the State of Hesse (40 percent). For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com

The Cologne exhibition centre - whose 284,000 m² of exhibition space make it the third-largest in Germany and one of the Top Ten in the world – is just a stone’s throw away from the centre of Cologne and has excellent connections to the German and international transport networks. Koelnmesse’s key areas of expertise are “Global Competence in Food and FoodTec”, with trade fairs such as Anuga and ISM, “Global Competence in Furniture, Interiors and Design”, with imm cologne and ORGATEC, for example, and “Digital Media, Entertainment and Mobility”, which addresses important future-oriented themes at events such as gamescom and DMEXCO. Each year, Koelnmesse organises and manages about 80 trade fairs, exhibitions, guest events and corporate events in Cologne as well as in key markets around the world in physical, digital and hybrid formats. Around 3 million visitors from from more than 200 nations and more than 54,000 exhibiting companies from 122 countries regularly take part in the events. The company’s trade fairs are among the most internationally diverse in the world: On average, 72 percent of exhibitors and 45 percent of visitors coming from abroad. The great economic importance of the events for exhibitors and companies is expressed by the slogan “We energize your business”. That’s because Koelnmesse regards itself as a generator of valuable momentum for its customers and the sectors they represent — before, during and after each trade fair, in Cologne and in all of the relevant markets worldwide.