EUROCISEUROCIS Major firms and numerous new exhibitors MSS Communications Design has Bookings for EuroCIS 2007 exhibition space have already beat 2006 figures The portents are excellent for EuroCIS 2007: Interest in the International Trade Fair Communications, Information and Security Technology in Retail is great. EuroCIS opens its doors on 27 February 2007 and already more exhibition space has been booked than was occupied last year. So far, 125 exhibitors from 13 countries have registered stands with a total area of 4,196 square metres. This means the Halls 1 and 2 of the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre that are set aside for EuroCIS are almost completely booked up.

All areas of technology needed in retail will be represented: from scales to cash register systems, merchandise management and security technology through to digital POS media. The companies who have already registered include such well-known industry names as Wincor Nixdorf, Bizerba, TOMRA Systems, IBM, AWEK, Checkpoint Systems, EPSON, Pironet, Torex Retail Solutions, Toshiba, Wanzl Metallwaren, ADT Sensormatic, Symbol Technologies, Potrafke Kassentischsysteme, Hansa Harr, TeleCash, Ergonomic Solutions and Sanyo Video Vertrieb.

Voicing his satisfaction at the successful course embarked upon by EuroCIS Managing Director at Messe Düsseldorf Wilhelm Niedergöker said: “For the next EuroCIS we will have to provide a new constellation of exhibition halls with more space in order to cover the rising demand. After EuroShop 2008 nothing will then stand in the way of EuroCIS 2009 expanding still further.”

“ Whereas other IT fairs are focusing more and more on end users or are expanding their range with new exhibition areas, EuroCIS is concentrating on pure IT themes for visitors from the retail area, and with great success,” explains Michael Gerling, managing director of the EHI Retail Institute. This concept is popular with the industry, as demonstrated by the registration of 15 new exhibitors who initially got to know EuroCIS as visitors in past years.

They include, for example, MSS Communications Design GmbH and DVS Digitale Video Sicherheit GmbH. MSS Communications Design has focused for many years on digital signage and digital information systems for banks, retailers, industry, hotel and congress centres and on the e-kiosk market. According to Executive Creative Director Siegfried Nestle, MSS wants to “use EuroCIS to gain a foothold in the retail area as we have identified this as a fastmoving area. What’s more, MSS is focused on the European market and EuroCIS gives us exactly the target group we need.” DVS Digitale Video Sicherheit GmbH also wants to position itself as a supplier of retail solutions at the upcoming EuroCIS. At the beginning of this year, the digital video surveillance specialists began offering two additional modules for connecting cash registers and logistics systems which permit full analysis and processing of captured data. EuroCIS offers the opportunity to address retailers selectively and convince them of the benefits of our solutions which are ideally tailored to their needs, says managing director Klaus Bielig.