Ralf-Michael Franke, CEO Siemens-Division Drive Technologies, Siemens AG, Nürnberg

"HANNOVER MESSE 2011 once again proved to be a key international meeting place for anyone with an interest in cutting-edge technologies and sustainable development. This was very apparent from the many serious inquiries that Siemens fielded at the show in Hannover. We are satisfied with the response we received and are pleased that Siemens was able to contribute to the success of the show with its automation and drive technologies under the motto ‘Create Sustainable Value’."

Martin Sträb, Chief Marketing Officer, KUKA AG, Augsburg

"We view the concentration of key technologies for industry at Hannover as the ideal platform for helping us to reach our ambitious growth targets. What persuaded us to come was not just the fact that many of the trade visitors are senior decision-makers, but also the fact that we could expect to meet large numbers of potential customers from all the industries that use our products."

Friedhelm Loh, CEO, Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, Herborn

"HANNOVER MESSE represents the most important event in our trade show calendar. We’ve been exhibiting here for 49 years now. Because this is the world’s most important industrial show, we see it as the perfect platform for meeting our customers from right across the industrial and geographical spectrum."

Thorsten Fincke, Project Manager for Trade Fairs, Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH, Berlin

"HANNOVER MESSE gives us a great platform for presenting and communicating the future of energy, and for profi ling our company and the innovative projects we are developing."

Burkhard Rarbach, Director of Marketing Services, MENNEKES Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Kirchhundem

"HANNOVER MESSE is an excellent platform for presenting our products and our brand to a broad professional public from Germany and many other countries. MobiliTec, with its focus on the theme of electromobility, was very popular with visitors, and the calibre of the trade audience was uniformly high. We were able to develop our existing contacts and at the same time generate many new contacts."

Florian Kampf, Team Leader for Marketing, Sonderhoff Chemicals, Cologne

"We have been coming to HANNOVER MESSE for many years now, and we’ve never been disappointed. The contacts we made at the 2011 show were well up to expectation again, in terms of both quantity and quality."

Dr. Jürgen M. Geissinger, CEO, Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach

"HANNOVER MESSE is the leading trade fair for industry, and consequently ranks very high on our list of business engagements for the year. The show is the ideal place to present our innovations and products to our customers and to a broader buying public."

Franziska Kowalewski, Dept. for Trade Fairs and Events, Fraunhofer Head Office, Munich

"As in previous years HANNOVER MESSE is an important meeting-place for all kinds of different industry sectors, and for us it represents an excellent opportunity to talk to our customers and renew existing contacts. This year’s fair serves is an impressive showcase for the technologies that are going to shape the future of our society in years to come."