On the last day of the German it-fair Cebit, the organization announced that more than 300,000 visitors have been. The number would be on the same level as the previous year, while the number of exhibitors even increased slightly.
“We have more than 300,000 visitors and remain therefore at the level of last year”, says Ernst Raue of the trade fair organizers Saturday against Heise. The outlook for the always busy Saturday, according to him, so good that the chances are that the number of last year, 339.000 visitors, again, will be achieved. The final figures makes the organization Saturday night known.
According to Raue, there were more than 4,200 exhibitors on the show floor, which allows the number of last year slightly exceeded. He speaks about a successful exhibition. Cebit has been struggling sufficient number of companies to be present at the fair, and this year was missing a lot of the big names. So it was Asus this year is absent and the stand of MSI very modest. Both companies were in 2011 is still present with large booths. Many large electronicaconcerns let Cebit longer linksliggen, which is partly the result of the strategy of Cebit to focus more on the business market. That strategy seems to be a downsizing now to a halt, brought to have.
The heyday of the Cebit layers around the year 2000, when approximately 800,000 visitors from around the world and 8,000 exhibitors at the Messe exhibition grounds in Hannover populated. After 2001, however, a sharp decline in. This year would be a public transport strike in Hanover, the number of visitors negatively impacted, claims the organization. Tweakers.net was this year again present at the fair.