2. Welcometo the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre Pentti Kivinen Managing Director, The Finnish Fair Corporation

3. The Finnish Fair Corporation • Founded 1919, privately owned • Leading fair organiser in Finland • Personnel 260 • The first trade fair in Helsinki summer 1920 • New exhibition and convention centre 1975 • Visio to the year 2025

4. Organisation

5. Top 10 Exhibitions

6. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre • Finland’s biggest and best venue for exhibitions and congresses • Central location in Helsinki • Well-known location • Good public transport links • Functional, compact property • Adaptable facilities • High-quality conference facilities • Complemented by high-quality restaurant services and a hotel

7. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre 7 exhibition halls containing 58 000 m2 of exhibition space (August 2011)

8. HelsinKi Exhibition & Convention Centre 2025 Hotel extension Trade Mart More congress facilities Congress park Hall 7 Car park Investments 2010 - 2025

9. Hall 7 & more parking space • August 2011 • 14 700 m2 • 4 500–7 000 m2 net exhibition space • Multifuncional • Optimal energy consumption • No pillars • 29 M € investment • 4 600 parking places

10. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre 1 037 753

11. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre 9 300

12. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre 1 550

13. The Finnish Fair Corporation SVV ja Standiman part of the group since 1998, Helsingin Messut, Wanha Satama ja Expomark since 2005 M €

14. The Finnish Fair Corporation SVV ja Standiman part of the group since 1998, Helsingin Messut, Wanha Satama ja Expomark since 2005 M €

15. The Finnish Fair Corporation SVV ja Standiman part of the group since 1998, Helsingin Messut, Wanha Satama ja Expomark since 2005 M €

16. Marketing media’s share of advertising in 2009 (3,1 billion euros)

17. The Finnish Union of Trade Fair Organisers  The Finnish Fair Corporation Market share: • Visitors 55 % • Exhibition space 53 % • the Housing Fair Finland Oulu Vaasa Seinäjoki Jyväskylä Tampere Lahti Turku Helsinki

18. Foreign trade 2009

19. Exports and imports by industries 2009

20. Finnish Confidence Indicators

21. Production

22. Why Helsinki? • Trendy Helsinki • A city that works • Human scale • Safe • People – English is spoken everywhere • The exotic East meets Scandinavian simplicity

23. Helsinki - easy to reach

24. Metropolitan area of Helsinki • Helsinki Exhibition & Congress Centre is: • 4 km from the city centre  • 5 minutes by train or 15 minutes by trams • 16 km from the airport  • 20 minutes by taxi • In 2014 train connection from the airport

25. MATKA Nordic Travel Fair 21-23 January The biggest travel fair in the Northern Europe • Exhibitors 1 200 • Countries 74 • Exhibition-m2 15 490 • Visitors 82 000 • Halls 1, 2, 3,6 (Caravan halls 4 & 5)

26. Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre