Background information on Messe Frankfurt
The Messe Frankfurt Group is the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organiser with its own exhibition grounds. With a workforce of some 2,300 people at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and in 28 subsidiaries, it organises events around the world. Group sales in financial year 2023 were around € 609 million. We serve our customers’ business interests efficiently within the framework of our Fairs & Events, Locations and Services business fields. One of Messe Frankfurt’s key strengths is its powerful and closely knit global sales network, which covers around 180 countries in all regions of the world. Our comprehensive range of services – both onsite and online – ensures that customers worldwide enjoy consistently high quality and flexibility when planning, organising and running their events. We are using our digital expertise to develop new business models. The wide range of services includes renting exhibition grounds, trade fair construction and marketing, personnel and food services.
Sustainability is a central pillar of our corporate strategy. Here, we strike a healthy balance between ecological and economic interests, social responsibility and diversity.
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With its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, the company is owned by the City of Frankfurt (60 percent) and the State of Hesse (40 percent).
For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com
Sustainability at Messe Frankfurt
The Group’s strategic orientation is determined by its sustainable business practices. The Sustainability Board drives forward the transformation to a sustainable trade fair sector with input from different disciplines. Both long-term goals and short- and medium-term milestones are set out in a sustainability target architecture. Messe Frankfurt decided of its own accord to introduce environmental management system EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) in 2023. The EMAS validation also meets the requirements of environmental management norm ISO 14001. Together with its new partner First Climate, Messe Frankfurt will report its greenhouse gas emissions in future and develop a far-reaching climate strategy. In recognition of our efforts to create a sustainable event business, we received the AEO Excellence Award 2023 in the Best Sustainability Initiative category, having already obtained an ESG rating (Environmental, Social, Governance) in 2022 and 2023. Since 2010, Messe Frankfurt has geared its sustainable business practices towards the ten principles of the UN Global Compact and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The company has also committed itself to the Charter of Diversity and the fairpflichtet sustainability code. Messe Frankfurt supports the sustainability initiatives of industry associations AUMA and UFI and of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC) in their efforts to organise climate-neutral events.
For more information, please visit our website at www.messefrankfurt.com/sustainability