Messe Düsseldorf restructures operations, makes management changes

From now on, Messe Düsseldorf’s leisure trade shows will be consolidated under the leadership of the operative management. To that end, the responsibility for boot, the world’s largest watersports show, will shift from President & CEO Wolfram N. Diener to Marius Berlemann. The new Managing Director for Operations will also be in charge of CARAVAN SALON Düsseldorf, the leading international trade show for mobile travel.

In turn, drupa, the global No. 1 trade show for printing technologies, will no longer be a part of operative management, instead moving to Wolfram N. Diener, who’s already in charge of many of Messe Düsseldorf’s industrial trade shows: the leading global trade shows for the wire and tube industries, wire und Tube; the international valve trade show, VALVE WORLD EXPO; the world’s largest packing trade show, interpack; the world’s leading trade shows for the metallurgy and foundry industries, GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST; and numerous other trade shows of the portfolios around the world. One recent addition is XPONENTIAL, the world’s leading trade show for uncrewed systems and robotics in the U.S., which in February 2025 will for the first time host a European spinoff event in Düsseldorf: XPONENTIAL Europe.