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FOREWARD | GERALD BÖSE


WELCOME


A look back at LivingKitchen 2017 from Gerald Böse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Koelnmesse GmbH


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his year, imm cologne and LivingKitchen have achieved a record number of visitors. We met our target and have broken the 150,000-visitor mark; with roughly every second trade visitor coming from outside Germany, that shows we are right on track with our drive to internationalise the events.


Of the 104,000 trade visitors, around 56,000 came from Germany and approximately 48,000 from abroad (an increase of 4%). Within Europe, increases in visitor fi gures were recorded in particular from Spain (up 25%), Russia (up 26%), Italy (up 19%) and the UK (up 13%). Visitors from the Netherlands and Poland also increased. A rise was also recorded in visitor numbers from the Middle East (up 19%), with particularly strong growth from the UAE. With these excellent numbers of foreign visitors, the two trade fairs will boost exhibitors’ exports. No other event brings supply and demand together as effectively, in this quality, as imm cologne and LivingKitchen. Initial evaluations of the results showed that the trade visitors included large numbers of the global top 30 retail chains, such as John Lewis, Home Retail Group, Harveys Furniture − all from the UK − as well as Conforama from France and Nitori from Japan. The major industry players in online retail − including Amazon and the Otto Group − also used the event intensively for their businesses. With these results, imm cologne and LivingKitchen have confi rmed their importance for the interior design industry’s global commercial operations on a national and an international level. Looking at LivingKitchen in particular, for the seven days of the event,


200 exhibitors from 21 countries − including around 50 fi rst-time and returning exhibitors − showed how much innovation the industry has to offer and how high its standards of design and quality are. This year’s show not only followed on seamlessly from its success in 2015, but signifi cantly improved on the key fi gures in many areas. For us, LivingKitchen 2017 was a complete success. The world’s best-performing kitchen industry needs a leading international trade fair in Germany. Our industry presented an outstanding showcase, and we are convinced that the trade fair will signifi cantly boost demand for kitchens, nationally and internationally.


Gerald Böse


The world’s best-performing kitchen industry needs a leading international trade


fair in Germany. Gerald Böse , CEO, Koelnmesse


RIGHT | Koelnmesse’s Gerald Böse


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LIVINGKITCHENWORLD 2017


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