• Messe München International (MMI) founds a subsidiary in India: MMI India
• Manmeet Sabarwal named Managing Director 
• electronicIndia from 2 to 5 September 2008 in Bangalore will be the first trade fair held by MMI India

Munich, 16 July 2007. 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.

About electronicIndia
electronicIndia is the leading trade show for electronic components and assemblies as well as electronics production in India. It takes place each year at the BIEC Bangalore International Exhibition Centre in Bangalore, the heart of the Indian electronics industry.

Trade Fair Network for Electronics
Messe München International (MMI) is one of the globally leading organizers of electronics trade fairs. electronica has been the leading international trade fair for components, systems and applications for more than 40 years. Productronica, the leading international trade fair for electronic production, has been just as successful. In addition, MMI organizes four trade fairs worldwide in the regional growth markets of Asia and South America. A total of more than 8,000 exhibitors and more than 280,000 visitors take part in the events of the Munich trade fair network for electronics.


About Messe München International (MMI)
Messe München International (MMI) is one of the world’s leading trade-fair organizations with approximately 40 trade fairs for investment goods, consumer goods and new technologies. More than 30,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, and over two million visitors from more than 200 countries take part each year in the trade fairs in Munich. In addition, MMI organizes trade fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With four foreign affiliated companies in Europe and Asia as well as 66 foreign representatives covering 89 countries, MMI has a global network.


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