NATIONAL MADE IN ITALY DAY – 15 APRIL 2025: AEFI JOINS MINISTRY-LED CELEBRATIONS WITH TWO SOCIAL VIDEO CAMPAIGNS

A PREVIEW OF AEFI’S EXHIBITION “SHOWCASING INNOVATION: TRADE FAIRS AS HUBS OF MADE IN ITALY” FOR GLOBAL EXHIBITION DAY (ROME, 4 JUNE) Two original videos will highlight the inseparable bond between Made in Italy and the Italian trade fair system. This is the focus of Aefi’s (Italian Exhibition and Trade Fair Association) latest communication project, […]

AEFI: FIRST QUARTER 2025 TRAINING PROGRAMME NOW UNDER WAY

Aefi’s 2025 training programme is now under way. Pending the implementation of new service areas as outlined in the planning and development road map approved by the Board of Directors on 15th January, the Italian Exhibition and Trade Fair Association has launched a calendar of events dedicated to industry players, from exhibition districts to event […]

TRADE FAIRS: ATTENDANCE RISES TO ALMOST 18 MILLION OPERATORS (+6.1%), INCLUDING 1.3 MILLION FROM ABROAD (+4.2%)

DANESE (AEFI CHAIRMAN): PUSH FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO BOOST INTERNATIONALISATION The Italian exhibition industry concludes 2024 with further growth. According to Aefi (the Italian Exhibition and Trade Fair Association)’s preliminary survey released today in Milan at the 2nd National Conference on Export and Internationalisation of Businesses, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the 831 […]

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS: A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WAS SIGNED BETWEEN AEFI AND THE MINISTRY OF ENTERPRISE AND MADE IN ITALY – DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY – ITALIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Collaboration between AEFI and the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy is strengthened thanks to a new memorandum of understanding signed with the Directorate General for Industrial Property – Italian Patent and Trademark Office (DGPI-UIBM). According to the agreed text, which falls under the powers contemplated in Article 223 – paragraph IV – of […]

TRADE FAIRS: MAURIZIO DANESE UNANIMOUSLY CONFIRMED AS AEFI PRESIDENT

DANESE: WITH ORGANISERS JOINING UNITED SECTOR AND STRONG REPRESENTATION. WE ARE WORKING WITH THE GOVERNMENT TO INNOVATE THE EXHIBITION INDUSTRY URSO (MINISTER OF ENTERPRISES AND MADE IN ITALY (MIMIT)): IT IS NECESSARY TO GO ABROAD AS ONE WITH A UNITED EXHIBITION SYSTEM Maurizio Danese has been unanimously confirmed at the helm of Aefi, the leading […]

TRADE FAIRS: PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT SIGNED BY MINISTRY OF ENTERPRISE AND MADE IN ITALY (MIMIT) AND AEFI

URSO (MINISTER): THE “MADE IN ITALY” LABEL IS A BRAND THAT CERTIFIES ITALIAN KNOW-HOW. MIMIT WITH TRADE FAIRS TO ENHANCE OUR EXCELLENCE DANESE (PRESIDENT OF AEFI): TRADE FAIRS DRIVE THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS AND WORK WITH INSTITUTIONS TO PROMOTE THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM “Creating projects to enhance the excellence of the Italian trade fair […]

TRADE FAIRS: AEFI REMEMBERS LORENZO CAGNONI, THE DOYEN OF ITALIAN TRADE FAIRS

The AEFI Board of Directors, President Maurizio Danese and Secretary General Loredana Sarti remember Lorenzo Cagnoni – President of IEG – Italian Exhibition Group and Vice-President of AEFI, the Association of Italian Trade Fair Exhibitions, who passed away today in Rimini at the age of 84. In almost 30 years of activity in the trade […]

EXHIBITIONS, DANESE (AEFI): UNIFIED ACTION PLAN FOR THE MADE IN ITALY BRAND WORLDWIDE

A STRATEGY FOR GROWING ITALIAN EXHIBITIONS INTERNATIONALLY IN A REPORT FROM AEFI/ROLAND BERGER “The Italian exhibitions industry consists of 190 companies with an overall workforce of 3700, and has an annual turnover of 1.4 billion euro. It is an extraordinary vehicle for growing the Made in Italy brand, which however is still far from reaching […]

EXHIBITIONS, AEFI/PROMETEIA: EXHIBITIONS TOURISM GENERATES 10 BILLION EURO A YEAR, 4.8 BILLION IN ADDED VALUE AND 90,000 JOBS

DANESE (AEFI): GREAT POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH, THE PRIORITIES ARE SERVICES, TRANSPORT AND HOSPITALITY Exhibitions tourism in Italy generates over 10 billion euro a year, corresponding to an added value of 4.8 billion euro, and is estimated to account for 90,000 jobs. In other words, every euro spent by visitors to exhibitions generates 2.4 euro in […]

TRADE FAIRS: AEFI UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES THE NEW BY-LAWS AND OPENS UP TO EXHIBITION ORGANISERS

The Shareholders’ Meeting of AEFI, the Association of Italian Trade Fair Exhibitions, was held this morning in Bologna, at the headquarters of BolognaFiere, and the association’s new by-laws were unanimously approved. At the behest of the Italian Government and in agreement with CFI, the Industrial Trade Fair Committee, the association opened up membership to organisers […]