Messe Karlsruhe: your strong partner

We are organizers and hosts in a strong region

Events are our passion. Not only because we offer the perfect setting for trade fairs, conventions and cultural events, but also because we contribute our extensive know-how, flexible service and strong personal dedication to every event, whether as its organizer or its host.

Our region’s Mediterranean climate and high concentration of researchers encounter our passion and enthusiasm for events at Messe Karlsruhe.

Welcome to Karlsruhe!

We are hosts

Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre dm-arena CDU party conference

Advise, accompany, implement: we make your event truly special. We offer you services that are and remain personal from start to finish. Regardless of whether you are looking for halls for a trade fair, rooms for a convention or a venue for an event, we will be pleased to advise you individually. Because we know that every event has its own unique character.

From our home base here in Karlsruhe, we cultivate diverse partnerships and a comprehensive network from which you can benefit. We want you to feel at home with us. And we hope you’ll choose to return.

We as hosts

We are organizers

LEARNTEC Hall 1 Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre

It has been our task and our pleasure to inspire generations of clients for almost seventy years. Year after year, we invite our guests to be surprised, fascinated, educated and moved by our trade fairs and events. We have something for everyone: art KARLSRUHE is a yearly meeting for art lovers from all over Germany, RendezVino offers numerous culinary delights for gourmets from the region, LEARNTEC is a “must” for people with an affinity for digital learning, and NUFAM annually rolls out the latest innovations for entrepreneurs in the commercial vehicles industry.

We bring new ideas and innovations to the region – and we bring the region to the world. As an organizer, we cultivate an extensive network which includes numerous companies and institutions in the Karlsruhe Technology Region. Visit us and let us inspire you.

We as organizers

We are in Karlsruhe

Turmberg Karlsruhe-Durlach

The sun shines on our fan-shaped city almost 140 days a year. The sunny weather doesn’t only tempt connoisseurs and pleasure seekers to settle here: Karlsruhe is also the city with Europe’s highest density of researchers. In addition to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and three Fraunhofer Institutes, the Max Rubner Institute (one of the four federal research institutes) is likewise based in Karlsruhe. And over 3,600 IT and technology companies make our region Europe’s third-largest IT cluster.

With the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), we have a unique cultural institution that was recently listed among the world’s five best museums.

The spacious Schlosspark, the Stadtgarten and many other green areas invite nature lovers to relax and enjoy life in Baden, where gourmets can choose among ten starred restaurants in the region.

Karlsruhe

The company Messe Karlsruhe in figures

Over 300 events annually attract up to 800,000 visitors to our two locations in the city centre and on our Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre. We offer local people and our guests a varied programme – from regional to international and from creative to innovative.

Facts und figures

  • More than 40 trade fairs each year with almost 8,000 exhibitors
  • 82,000 square meters of hall space in 9 halls distributed over two locations
  • Total sales valued at 38.7 million euros in 2019
  • 150 employees
  • Over 6,000 reports or mentions in the media
  • 1 million visits to the websites, of which almost 250,000 visits were from abroad
  • Over 101,507 followers on the social media channels (facebook, instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter)

Revenue development: 2009 - 2020

Revenue development: 2009 - 2020

The planning for 2021 envisaged total revenues of € 32.9 million. This was based on the assumption of year-round trade fair and event operations. A total of € 19.5 million was generated, which is a significant improvement on the previous year (+ € 2.1 million), which was also affected by the pandemic.

With the achievement of around 60 % of the total revenue originally budgeted for the year 2021, Messe Karlsruhe performed significantly better than the slump in the industry average of 70 %.

Operational development

Operational development

Contribution margin II is an indicator of the operational development of Messe Karlsruhe. The result here was € 3.1 million and thus € 2.6 million below the original planning. However, it was a significant improvement on the result from the previous year. This shows that the operative business has made a significant contribution to the annual result even under pandemic conditions.

Operating result

Operating result

As a result of the ongoing ban on trade fairs until September and the pandemic situation that came to a head again towards winter, trade fairs were allowed to take place on just 70 days in 2021, which is clearly reflected in the absolute figures. In the congress area, the use of the generous space available for events to maintain public life was even greater than in the previous year, with the application of tried and tested hygiene concepts. The decline in the number of cultural events resulted from very strict visitor restrictions and the associated cancellations by guest organisers due to economic unprofitability. In the area of other events, mainly the operation of vaccination centres leads to an increase compared to the previous year.

A selection of our own exhibitions

art KARLSRUHE

art KARLSRUHE

The art fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art

Ärzte-Seminare Karlsruhe

Ärzte-Seminare Karlsruhe

Compact and practical training in the fields of medicine

IT-TRANS

IT-TRANS

Trade fair about IT trends and innovations for public transport

Karlsruher Hochzeits- und Festtage

Karlsruher Hochzeits- und Festtage

Trade fair for the wedding season and festive season

LEARNTEC

LEARNTEC

International trade fair and convention for digital learning

New Housing

New Housing

The Tiny House Festival

NUFAM

NUFAM

The trade fair for commercial vehicles

offerta

offerta

The shopping and adventure fair for the whole family.

Platformers' Days

Platformers' Days

The lead trade fair for lifting and access equipment

RecyclingAKTIV

RecyclingAKTIV

Demonstration trade fair for waste removal and recycling

REHAB

REHAB

The trade fair for rehabilitation, therapy, care, and inclusion

SBM EXPO Karlsruhe

SBM EXPO Karlsruhe

Trade fair for sustainable construction materials and equipment

TiefbauLIVE

TiefbauLIVE

Demonstration trade fair for road construction and civil engineering

TIERisch gut

TIERisch gut

The trade fair for everything related to dogs, cats and aquariums

Logo RendezVino

RendezVino

The trade fair for wine, pleasure, tasting

Excerpt from our references

Karlsruhe Convention Centre

  • Bonnie Tyler
  • EnBW
  • Deutscher Heilpraktikerkongress
  • Forum Film Kino
  • Grenke Chess Open
  • Gospelkirchentag
  • Karlsruher Konferenz der Zahnärztlichen Akademie
  • Knock Out Festival
  • Luke Mockridge
  • Street Food Festival

Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre

  • art KARLSRUHE
  • CDU Bundesparteitag
  • Ehrlich Brothers
  • FDP Bundesparteitag
  • Grashüpfer Festival
  • Indoor Meeting
  • IT-TRANS
  • LEARNTEC
  • Nadelwelt
  • Ninja Warrior Germany
  • offerta Karlsruhe
  • PaintExpo
  • TIERisch gut

Find out more about the company Messe Karlsruhe