“We closed the 2025 financial year with sales revenues of around EUR 766 million. Our international business model is robust and sustainable.”
“349 events and 4.8 million visitors worldwide form the basis of our success. This is where we create new business opportunities, partnerships and markets for our customers.”
“Messe Frankfurt is a job engine and economic driver throughout Germany, generating more than 30,000 jobs and €667 million in tax revenue.”
Messe Frankfurt: your partner for trade fairs, congresses and events
The Messe Frankfurt Group is the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organiser with its own exhibition grounds. For around 800 years, it has brought people together in Frankfurt and around the world – at trade fairs, congresses and events, and through digital and analogue services.
Around 2,700 employees work for the Messe Frankfurt Group at its Frankfurt am Main headquarters and at its 29 subsidiaries. In 2025, they organised a total of 349 events at around 60 locations worldwide. In the same year, around 4.8 million visitors and 93,500 exhibiting companies benefited from Messe Frankfurt’s international network, events and digital expertise. Through its event brands, Messe Frankfurt is present in around 180 countries.
Messe Frankfurt connects companies, visitors and institutions. It matches supply and demand, enabling collaboration, knowledge transfer and new business models.
Sustainability is a central pillar of Messe Frankfurt’s corporate strategy, combining ecological and economic action with social responsibility and diversity.
Messe Frankfurt: the partner of choice for successful events
Every year, our locations play host to around 250 events. Why not use our flexible, state-of-the-art locations and customised services for your event too?
Right at the heart of Germany and Europe and with enviable transport connections, the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds are the ideal venue for trade fairs, conferences, AGMs or product launches. Our congress and event locations offer you the right venue for congresses and conferences and for concerts, shows and other events – whether for 1,000 or 15,000 visitors.
As well as exhibition space, we offer a wide range of services, including logistics, stand construction, marketing, food services and catering, all of which help to bring out the best in your event. We are extending our range of analogue and digital services on an ongoing basis, investing wherever we see the best opportunity to create value for our customers.
Whether delivering your goods, storing material or renting out forklifts and cranes, Messe Frankfurt offers a wide range of logistics services on its exhibition grounds. Fast, reliable and perfectly coordinated.
Effective marketing is central to successful trade fair activities, as it helps you to raise your company’s profile. You can convey your messages directly to interested members of your target group at the Frankfurt exhibition grounds and via online media.
Leave it to the experts. After all, the Fairconstruction specialists will be designing and constructing your stand on their own home base: the Frankfurt exhibition grounds. For you, this means short, time-saving distances, superior quality and competitive conditions.
Messe Frankfurt: Where international markets, business and society meet
Messe Frankfurt develops and organises trade fairs, congresses and other events in Frankfurt and around the world, creating opportunities for exchange, business connections and personal encounters.
The events address topics that are shaping business and society: artificial intelligence, the energy transition, new mobility, future-oriented learning, intelligent textiles, personalisation and smart cities.
Messe Frankfurt’s international reach is also reflected in the Group’s own trade fairs in Frankfurt: in 2025, around 81% of exhibiting companies and around 57% of visitors came from outside Germany.
Messe Frankfurt works closely with companies, institutions and representatives from politics and society. Its events bring different perspectives together, creating opportunities for fresh ideas and new partnerships. Source figures: Annual report 2025
