bauma 2016: Boosts sector's growth, displays innovation, attracts quality visitors, and signs record orders
bauma, a seven-day show of superlatives attracted around 580,000 visitors from 200 countries to Munich and reported a rise of over 9 percent. The top ten countries among the visitors after Germany were Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, UK, Sweden, the Russian Federation, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In terms of exhibitors, the 31st edition of bauma witnessed a record attendance of 3,423 exhibitors from 58 countries (wherein 1,263 were from Germany and rests 2,160 were from other other countries) who presented their products, developments and innovations on a record exhibit space of 605,000 square meters. Exhibitors from outside Germany accounted for 63% of the total—higher than ever before. Apart from these, bauma has also proved as the #1 platform for filling up the order books.