At Expo Real 2008 a total of 1,856 companies from 45 countries participated. 487 came from abroad – 62 of them from Russia. The exhibition space was 74,000 square meters over a total of seven halls. This was a growth-rate of 17 percent compared with last year.

There was also an increase of visitors by 7.7 percent. They came from 77 countries – top of them Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, CZ, Poland, USA, France and Spain. Beside the exhibition about 100 workshops with 500 experts attracted the visitors – one of them was the Retail Special organized by Prof. Dr. Bernd Hallier. The next Expo Real will be on October 5-7th 2009 ( more ).