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Köln - interzum 2009 and 2011

In 2009, interzum clearly confirmed its position as the world's leading trade fair for suppliers for furniture production and interiors. Exhibitors presented the enthusiastic visitors with the world premieres of new products and future-oriented materials for well-known and new types of applications.

interzum 2011: the sector presents its innovative fireworks in the halls of Koelnmesse

Approx. 53,000 visitors from 147 countries

1,434 suppliers from 61 countries

8 percent more occupied exhibition space

24 percent more visitors from abroad

"Sensational. It was our best interzum ever," was the general consensus amongst exhibitors at the end of this year's interzum. With 52,400 trade visitors from 147 countries, the leading international trade fair for the furniture supplier industry was able to announce growth of 13 percent as compared to the previous event in 2009. The internationality of the

visitor structure, traditionally always high anyway, increased significantly this year with a plus of 24 percent. "I'm absolutely thrilled. What's been happening here over the last few days is incredible. For four days, the exhibitors have been showing what I can only describe as a firework display. The industry has been celebrating itself - with good reason," concludes Frank Haubold, product manager of interzum and director of

the imm cologne. "With this interzum, Koelnmesse has definitely underlined its position as a beacon for the furniture industry. I don't believe there is any other trade fair venue in the world where three absolute leading events for the respective sectors take place so successfully, in such concentrated form and in such a brief space of time. We are creating precedents for an extremely promising future," says a visibly satisfied Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse.