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| Hamburg Messe & Congress GmbH |
Hamburg Messe & Congress GmbH (HMC) posted
a successful business year 2011. As scheduled according to the
provisional estimate, the exhibition company and congress centre boosted
its revenues to EUR 58.5 million, an increase of 7.5 percent in
comparison to the reference year 2009 (EUR 54.4 million). For Hamburg
Messe & Congress this represents consistent continuation of the
growth path on which it embarked in 2005. For 2012 the company expects a
new earnings record.
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| Senator Frank Horch |
Senator Frank Horch, head of Hamburg’s economics, transport and
innovation department, is also satisfied: “As the competent senator, I
am particularly pleased that Hamburg Messe & Congress again
succeeded last year in realising its planned growth. This demonstrates
that HMC is on track. Its policy must now be continued and taken further
forward.”
“We have chosen the right course by focusing on top-level guest
events, continuing to build up our own strong events and further
developing highly specialised trade fairs,” Bernd Aufderheide, the
president and chief executive officer of Hamburg Messe & Congress
GmbH, commented. “We are delighted to have been able to continue our
successful progress in the ‘odd’ exhibition year 2011. The results show
us that our strategy is the right one.”
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| Congress Center Hamburg |
All in all in 2011, HMC rented out gross space of 812,351 square
metres at 44 trade fairs and exhibitions (one of which was in Neustadt
Harbour). The ten proprietary events and 34 guest events drew a total of
10,447 exhibitors and 670,667 visitors. 335,758 visitors to the CCH –
Congress Center Hamburg attended 270 national and international meetings
and congresses as well as cultural and gastro events.
HMC generated its best operating results – EUR 2.3 million – in a
cyclically weaker, odd exhibition year. However, as a result of
infrastructure investment in the exhibition site and the CCH conference
centre, 2011 closed with a scheduled deficit of EUR 27.5 million.
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