Messe München International (MMI) has named Manmeet Sabarwal as Managing Director of its newly found subsidiary in India, MMI India. With him, the company has been able to sign one of the leading trade fair and media experts in India.

electronicIndia, the No. 1 fair for the electronics industry in India, for which Messe München will be solely responsible as organizer in the future, is the first trade fair that MMI India will hold. It will take place from 2 to 5 September 2008 at BIEC Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India.

Klaus Dittrich, Managing Director of MMI and responsible for technology trade fairs, explaines: "electronicIndia is going to expand its leading position further for the electronics industry in India. MMI has been successful on the Indian market since 2000, and we succeeded into shaping the predecessor event into a trade fair with real national and international significance. We now have an optimum strategic starting point with the founding of MMI India. Another advantage for us is the location of Bangalore with its new trade fair center in the heart of the Indian IT and electronics industry."

Manmeet Sabarwal, Managing Director of MMI India, underlines: "It is an honour to work for Messe München, the world’s No.1 organizer of electronics trade fairs. We will always strive to provide the highest professional services to all exhibitors, visitors, all stake holders and our growing family of participants at electronicIndia since the last one decade."

Together with MMI, Mr. Sabarwal succeeded in making the Componex-/electronicIndia into one of the leading events for the electronics industry in India within only a few years. In February 2007, more than 830 exhibitors took part in the trade fair, while there were fewer than 250 exhibitors at the start of their joint activities in 2000. Mr. Sabarwal has also recorded excellent successes as Executive Director and Managing Editor; the magazine "Electronics Today“ has achieved a ten-times larger circulation under his management within four years. And he was responsible for the success of one of the leading fairs in India, the SmartCards Expo / RFID India Expo in New Delhi.