HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOTECHNICA — the flagship trade fair for the European biotech industry — continues to consolidate its position as a leader, and the outstanding quality of exhibitors and trade visitors at this year’s event surpassed all expectations. The show was even more successful than the prior event, attracting a total of approx. 13,000 trade visitors (up from 12,043 in 2005). “These results reveal that the realigned BIOTECHNICA is on the right track. All three indicators — exhibitors, display space and attendance — were up over the previous event”, stated Stephan Ph. Kühne, Member of the Deutsche Messe Managing Board. And Kühne is quite clear about the major strategic achievement of the event: “BIOTECHNICA 2007 has successfully laid the foundations for making this trade fair an annual event from now on. This is an essential step on the road to BIOTECHNICA assuming a seminal function for the European biotech industry.”
