With more than 800 years of history, the Leipzig Trade Fair is one of the oldest in the world. Today it devotes particular attention to the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Authors and readers meet here for Germany’s second-largest book fair, the literature festival “Leipzig Reads”, and in the project “Art at the Trade Fair” the exhibition grounds become a space for art works. The Leipzig Trade Fair successfully unites past tradition and the present. The world’s oldest trade fair venue, it is also one of the most modern. It was only in 1996 that the impressive new complex was opened, its futuristic glass and steel architecture symbolising transparency and cosmopolitan thinking. As a modern provider of services with long years of trade fair experience Leipziger Messe is able to offer customers and partners the full spectrum of its expertise. This is where custom trade fair concepts are developed to satisfy the needs of exhibitors and visitors alike.

The most spectacular aspect to the Leipzig Trade Fair is undoubtedly its laminated glass hall, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects of London. The glass hall represents a late 20th century equivalent of London’s Crystal Palace – a totally glazed enclosure using laminated glass in all 28,000m2 of its overhead glazing. It is the principal building through which all visitors to the Trade Fair enter and provides a surface area of 242m x 79m for reception, information and meetings. It is linked directly to the Trade Fair’s exhibition halls through a series of tubular, laminated glass bridges.
Now it seems all has been forgiven because the site is back in Google’s index, including Germany’s version. From a webmaster’s perspective, it must be nice to see Google respond so quickly once the necessary corrections are made. Golem’s article hit the web on Saturday (10-21), which indicates the guys at Leipziq Trade Fair were informed of Google’s decision sometime before that. This, in turn, points to the changes being done, the resubmission request being made and acted upon by Google before this past weekend was over.

First documented in 1015, and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165, the city of Leipzig has fundamentally shaped the history of Saxony and of Germany. Leipzig has always been known as a place of commerce. The Leipzig Trade Fair, which began in the middle ages, became an event of international importance; especially as a point of contact to the East-European economic bloc (Comecon) of which East Germany was a member.
Once again in 2008, the period from 26-29 February will be an important trade show of the year for the machinery, plant and machine-tool construction industry as well as the automotive sector. Exhibitors will be covering the whole range of manufacturing technology and the production of machine tools and special-purpose machinery in the Leipzig Trade Fair’s modern, well structured exhibition halls.