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$4.2bn Amount Disney paid in 2009 to acquire Marvel Entertainment, whose s.v.p. and general manager Peter Philips speaks at the StoryDrive conference on Friday
$125.1m Marvel’s publishing revenue in 2009
$1.5bn Amount in worldwide box office revenues generated by Marvel’s “Te Avengers” film in 2012
€45m 2011 consolidated profits for
Ausstellungs und Messe GmbH
7,384 Exhibitors at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair
280,194 Visitors at FBF 2011
43 Exhibitors at the FBF Gourment Gallery 2012
25.5% (£26.6m) Amount by which the print travel market has declined from 2004 to 2011 in the UK
43 Events at the Travel Gallery, FBF’s new travel publishing space in Hall 3.1
€467m 2011 revenue of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s parent group, Ausstellungs und Messe GmbH
$49.8m Worldwide box office revenues of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
€10,000 Prize money to be given to British
film director Stephen Daldry at the StoryDrive conference for the best film adaptation Hessisan Film Award for Jonathan Safar Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
$70m Total budget for “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Sources: Ausstellungs und Messe GmbH Annual Report; Frankfurt Book Fair; Nielsen BookScan; Marvel Entertainment Annual Report; Box Office Mojo.
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