World's Largest Mobility Trade Fair Closes, Recording Huge Rise in Visitors - 354 World Premieres is a New Record

World's Largest Mobility Trade Fair Closes, Recording Huge Rise in Visitors - 354 World Premieres is a New Record PR Newswire BERLIN and HANOVER, Germany, September 28, 2012 BERLIN and HANOVER, Germany, September 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wissmann: The 64th IAA Commercial Vehicles is a resounding success! Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you most cordially to our final press conference at the 64th IAA Commercial Vehicles. Please allow me to start with my conclusion: never before has an IAA been as exciting as this one! Never before have we had so many new commercial vehicles - vans, heavy trucks, buses - on show as at this exhibition. "Commercial Vehicles - Driving the Future" is the slogan of this IAA. And it has lived up to this aim in full - to showcase the drive for innovation in the entire industry - as the world's largest trade show for mobility, transport and logistics. The 354 world premieres - more than two thirds of them from suppliers - set a new record. The number of exhibitors - 1,904 exhibitors from 46 countries - is nine per cent higher than in 2010, and the exhibition space is up by 11 per cent to 260,000 square metres. This IAA Commercial Vehicles has the second largest number of participants and the second largest exhibition area since the IAA was divided into the IAA Cars and the IAA Commercial Vehicles, that is, for 20 years. We are especially delighted that the number of visitors to the IAA showed a sharp increase.