It is the special encounters that make the trade fair business what it is, not just today but at the first Cologne trade fair of the modern era, in 1924. 2018 was a good year for Koelnmesse – one reason being that, once again, the right interlocutors found one another at an attractive trade fair venue in a fascinating metropolis: types and characters, decision-makers and doers, innovators and investors, visionaries and realists. That is because the success of our trade fairs lies in the quality of the encounter.