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imm cologne presents the hit guide 2010 – including a wide range of innovative and new products presented in Cologne. Are you searching for spectacular products, a distinctive trend or a clever product idea at imm cologne? Then the hit guide 2010 is exactly what you are looking for.

Once again in 2010 the imm cologne will publish the “hit guide”, a special offer for the member of the international press. In its handy pocket size and with lots of color illustrations and short product descriptions, it provides an overview of all the big and small highlights at the fair.

The guide is compiled and selected by the “hit scouts” who based their selection on all the new products and innovations registered by the exhibitors in the run-up to the event.

For journalists: the hit guide will be available as print version.

hit guide 2010 – feel free to download it now!
You can download the latest hit guide here (pdf-file, 4 MB):
hit guide 2010, Part 1
hit guide 2010, Part 2

imm cologne is the central forum for the international furnishings industry, where exhibitors and decision-makers from all important markets meet.

Your individual business is the focus of our attention. We can support you in many ways: A new service is the Business Centre, which facilitates the work for visitors.

Fully equipped workstations put everything at your disposal to facilitate communication: free Internet access, telephone and fax. There is also an interpreter service available.

Lost your mobile phone? Forgotten your laptop? Need an interpreter? No problem. In the Business Centre located on the Boulevard between hall 6 and hall 9 you will find everything for your communication needs.

Buy your admission tickets in advance at a reduced price at your convenience in the Ticket Shop.

Everything you need to know about purchasing tickets in the Ticket Shop can be found at “Purchasing tickets – Here’s how“. What the e-ticket looks like.

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Online Matchmaking, a feature of imm cologne 2010, will give trade visitors like yourself the possibility of contacting imm exhibitors even before the trade fair begins. More service + more communication = more success.

What is Online Matchmaking?

Online Matchmaking is an Internet-based contact centre. Using this tool, you can address questions in a simple and anonymous manner to all exhibitors in the product group that interests you. It offers you the following advantage: You need to ask only one question, but you’ll simultaneously reach more than one exhibitor. Because the exhibitors will answer your question via e-mail, you’ll have the opportunity to arrange personal meetings before the trade fair begins with exactly the exhibitors you’re interested in. It’s the ideal way to organize an efficient trade fair visit.

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The subject of architecture has always played a leading role at imm cologne. The planning of buildings and the design of interior spaces show a considerable overlap, as evidenced by the ever-growing interest in the furniture fair. For those interested in the art of building and urban design, the Cologne Exhibition Centre will again be organising a number of exciting bilingual architecture tours in German and English.

Alongside bus tours of the highlights of Cologne’s 2000-year-old architectural history there will also be tours of the post-war reconstruction architecture of the 1950s, as well as tours covering architecture and lighting design. A walk through the newly designed Rheinauhafen will take in the most ambitious modern large-scale building project in Cologne.

An additional tour will also visit the spectacular, newly built Kolumba Art Museum as well as the monolithic chapel in the Eifel region, both important works of the Pritzker prizewinner Peter Zumthor. A tour of the galeries of this city of the arts, along with a gastronomic tour featuring some of the best of the local dishes and specialities, rounds off the program.

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The latest magazine visions will provide you with designing and interior innovations and introduces notable designers. The November 2009 issue features these imm cologne topics:

- The place for discovering innovations
- The market place for lucrative business
- All the novelties, all the trends, and all the events

Download – visions November 2009

No Adobe Reader at hand? Here, you can browse “visions” online:
imm cologne – visions November 2009

You can view the hall plans of imm cologne 2010 and choose your stand space online. It’s an event you can’t afford to miss. So take the opportunity to reserve one of the free stand spaces (red marked) for your perfect trade fair presentation! To get an overview, find here the hall plan.

There is not enough time to create your own booth design? Order here our All-inclusive-stand Package.

Your sector will be in the spotlight at imm cologne 2010 – so don’t miss out!

With the “Agents Directory” online tool, Koelnmesse and imm cologne 2010 are providing a service independent of trade fair times and in coordination with the furniture and furnishings industry. Trade representatives and exhibitors at imm cologne who are looking for sales partners are for the first time coming together also online to develop new markets.

Quick success: As a trade representative and agent, you can regsiter and set up your profile at http://agents.imm-cologne.com/administration. Important information to include is what products you market and in which countries and regions. Your details are then added to the Agents Directory. For you as a trade representative and agent, the procedure is free of charge.

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Five months before the next event all indications are pointing to a successful imm cologne 2010. The current registration status looks good despite the difficult situation in the industry. “We are currently assuming that we will again have around 1,000 exhibitors from over 45 countries. It’s time to think ahead, and for me that means stating my commitment to the leading trade fair. Germany needs a strong leading trade fair and that is imm cologne,” says Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse.

In the coming years imm cologne is set to be Europe’s most cutting-edge furnishings and interior design trade fair. By fulfilling all market-oriented criteria, it is offering optimum prerequisites for business and networking on the international scale. In the modern design area – halls 10, 11 and 3 – visitors will be presented with a show of ideas for global design developments in a compact form. Over 300 companies will have stands there, including such brands as COR, interlübke, Ligne Roset, Walter Knoll, Domaniecki, de Sede, Kettnaker, Fraubrunnen, girsberger, Team 7, Riva, and Gervasoni, all with strong emotional appeal. “We are firmly convinced that in the coming weeks additional registrations will come from renowned companies, particularly from Italy,” says Udo Traeger, Head of the Furniture, Interior Design and Textiles division at Koelnmesse.

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Plan your booth at imm cologne 2010 (19.-24.01.2010) quickly and easily online. Our online service makes it as comfortable as possible for you to take part in the fair. You can immediately plan and order your basic stand construction online.

The easy-to-use Online Booth Planner guides you through 6 clearly arranged steps. In the first step, you will also find all details you need to be informed about the various stand models.

You can also save your personal stand construction configuration without ordering. For this purpose, you will receive a user name and a password enabling you to fall back on the login area at any time.

You can get an idea of what a prefabricated trade fair stand can look like in the gallery. There, you will find photos of our stand models in the context of individual fairs. If you have any questions, please contact us: We are glad to help.

The imm cologne team will gladly answer your questions and assist you with your trade fair presentation any time.