EXPO magazine now ranks ISE as the 3rd fastest-growing trade show in the world (up from 9th position last year).
The annual ISE Press Event (held this week) always offers a statistical re-cap: after 2012, ISE shows a track record that most athletic departments would blame on steroids.
Attendance (up 17.2% in 2012 to 40,869) is outpacing the growth in exhibition space (825 exhibitors occupied 11 halls).
Now ISE 2013 will expand its exhibition space to take up the last remaining Hall at the RAI, adding Hall 8 (oddly enough the first hall ISE ever used at the RAI.)
On the eve of the 10th event, Mike Blackman, MD, Integrated Systems Events, says “We knew from our very first show that we had a winner but no one imagined the rate of success.”
UK and Germany each brought more than 5000 attendees to ISE 2012. Almost every European country (and UAE) sent more attendees to 2012 (except Portugal and Greece who are getting so much bad economic press we probably shouldn’t add any more.)