On its 40th anniversary, Security Essen presented itself on its best form: 1,045 exhibitors from around 40 nations were at Messe Essen at the end of September – including such conglomerates as Bosch, Panasonic, Sony and Siemens.
Essen offered more than 40 market segments: from mechanical and digital security via fire protection and video to IT security and counter-terrorism. The event attracted about 40,000 trade visitors from more than 110 countries.
Oliver P Kuhrt, CEO of Messe Essen, said: “With these very good figures, Security Essen has impressively highlighted that it is the worldwide number one in the sector. Together with the global security industry, we are pleased about the unsurpassed quality of the range on offer, internationality and participation.”
In Germany alone, the security industry had a turnover of nearly 12 billion euros in the past year – worldwide, the market volume of the sector is estimated at 120 billion euros. As for the prospects: almost 96 percent of the trade visitors to Messe Essen are expecting the favourable development of the security market to continue. One in three of the visitors indicated that their companies want to invest high six-figure amounts in security technology next year – above all, in access control, video surveillance and fire protection.
In 2014, some 39 percent of the trade visitors travelled from abroad – a plus of nearly ten percentage points. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy used the fair in Essen as the platform to continue bilateral dialogue with China about collaboration in disaster risk management. On the first day of the fair, high-ranking representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic arrived for the conference “Perspectives of German-Chinese Technological Cooperation in Disaster Risk Management”.
One in three of the visitors stayed at the fair for two days or longer this year. With a view to 2016, 92 percent of the visitors and 86 percent of the exhibitors indicated that they would be involved in the 22nd Security Essen on September 27 to 30, 2016.
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Exhibitor opinion
From Britain, Peter Nicholls, Overseas Exhibition Co-ordinator at the BSIA, said: “The British Security Industry Association has been represented at every Security Essen since 1992. And on the basis of this long experience, I can say: The premier global fair has become even more international this year. We are primarily interested in the markets in the Middle East and Asia and have reached our customers in Essen very well. The 20 companies on the British cooperative booth are all very satisfied with the number and quality of the visitors. Immediately after the end of the fair, we will make the booking for 2016 once again.”
