Positive investment climate reported at drupa 2008

DUSSELDORF, Germany—At the recent staging of drupa 2008 print media trade fair, the 1,971 exhibitors from 52 countries unanimously reported an extremely high number of promising contacts and successful purchase deals.

Overall, drupa exhibitors announced deals concluded worth more than Euro 10 billion. Industry insiders suspect the actual investment sum to be considerably higher. Around 391,000 visitors from 138 countries and 3,000 journalists from 84 countries traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to gather information on innovations, developments and new fields of business. Accounting for 59 percent of the visitor total, international visitor participation increased by 4 percent compared to drupa 2004.