Join SPIEL '15, the leading Games Fair open to the public
Meet your partners in business, licence, authors and 158,000 gamers from all over the world
The International Games Event SPIEL in Essen can look back on an impressive history. Over the last 32 years it has continuously grown, setting new standards. Visitors, media and retailers of SPIEL highly appreciate the chance to get a complete overview over the game industry and to receive immediate feedback from the consumers' side at the same time. Exhibitors consider SPIEL to be the highlight of the year and a perfect occasion for introducing new products to the market. For your information we have compiled all relevant SPIEL data.
Facts and figures:
With 158,000 visitors, hundreds of press, radio and TV journalists and 832 exhibitors from 41 nations, showing their products on a 58,000 square meters exhibition space, last year's SPIEL with COMIC ACTION has confirmed once more its uniqueness among the game exhibition scene.
SPlEL's high publicity level:
All exhibitors benefit by the wide publicity that SPIEL provides. They have realized that this International Games Event represents an ideal platform for public relations. Compared to other events all exhibitors agree that one of the special things about the Essen SPIEL is the overwhelming coverage in domestic and foreign media. During the four days of the International Games Event hundreds of journalists, along with their teams, reported on nearly everything that came their way in Essen.
News Show for the media and retailers - a cost-free service:
An increasing number of publishers gain profile by introducing their new products on the occasion of Essen SPIEL. The Friedhelm Merz Verlag has created a cost-free "News Show" where journalists and retailers get first hand information on the latest games innovations.
Enormous appeal to visitors:
The International Games Event SPIEL, a must for all gamers, welcomed 158,000 visitors from all over the world. It has consolidated its reputation as an internationally unique phenomenon. The exhibitors' booths were teeming with gamers; courses and competitions were enthusiastically accepted. Retailers, teachers, representatives of public institutions and the whole game community collected information on the novelties of the year. For many exhibitors the Essen SPIEL not only paid in terms of public relations but also in hard currency. Many games had soon been out of stock and new merchandise was quickly called in.
SPIEL '14 also resounded positively from the booths of foreign companies. Exhibitors from abroad spoke of an ever increasing licence business.
The whole range of the game industry displayed at SPIEL:
All kinds of products are presented at Essen: from family, adult, children and parlour games to strategy, mail, adventure, fantasy and science fiction games. An increasing number of electronic games adds to the range of classic board games; but also books dealing with games and toys.
The idea of the SPIEL games event in Essen:
The secret of this fair's success remains the basic idea that goes back to 1983: the idea of inviting the consumer and gamer, to play new games and toys and make up his own mind about the quality of the individual game. Thus, the direct impact of a new product can easily be perceived and represents a perfect means of measuring its general appeal. As there are also many retailers and key accounts, the obvious interest in new releases also has a direct impact on the decisions this group of people has to make, as to which new game should better be put on the retailers' order list.
Program:
The International Games Event SPIEL provides an extensive list of fringe events. Almost all exhibitors would hold bigger or smaller competitions which attract players as well as the attention of journalists. There are, e.g., V.I.P. tables where famous game inventors sign their games, live role games, championships and tournaments. Numerous associations inform on classics such as Chess, Go etc.
Prices:
Thanks to the option of booking inexpensive "10 sqm-mini-booths", from 582,-- EUR + VAT up, the Essen SPIEL also enjoys the presence of inventor booths, small publishers and toy manufacturers. All exhibitors are free to sell their products on the fair. Thus the Essen SPIEL offers a big chance of introducing small, risky productions to the market and helps to get a few steps further towards - at least - break even point; either by selling the product directly to the consumer, or by licensing the product over to other, maybe bigger manufacturers. Apart from the special "10 sqm-mini-booth" prices the basic price per square meter for booths bigger than 10 sqm is 94,-- EUR + VAT.
Application:
The forthcoming SPIEL '15 is obviously bound to become another big success, as already at this time of the year many bookings have been made for autumn, i.e. for October 8th to 11th, 2015. To make your reservation, please contact Mrs. Dominique Metzler or Verena Elsen, Friedhelm Merz Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Bismarckallee 8 or P.O. Box 210250, D-53157 Bonn, by phone: +49/228/342273, fax +49/228/856312 or send us your full company name, address and contact details to info@merz-verlag.com.
Yours sincerely
Friedhelm Merz Verlag
Meet your partners in business, licence, authors and 158,000 gamers from all over the world
The International Games Event SPIEL in Essen can look back on an impressive history. Over the last 32 years it has continuously grown, setting new standards. Visitors, media and retailers of SPIEL highly appreciate the chance to get a complete overview over the game industry and to receive immediate feedback from the consumers' side at the same time. Exhibitors consider SPIEL to be the highlight of the year and a perfect occasion for introducing new products to the market. For your information we have compiled all relevant SPIEL data.
Facts and figures:
With 158,000 visitors, hundreds of press, radio and TV journalists and 832 exhibitors from 41 nations, showing their products on a 58,000 square meters exhibition space, last year's SPIEL with COMIC ACTION has confirmed once more its uniqueness among the game exhibition scene.
SPlEL's high publicity level:
All exhibitors benefit by the wide publicity that SPIEL provides. They have realized that this International Games Event represents an ideal platform for public relations. Compared to other events all exhibitors agree that one of the special things about the Essen SPIEL is the overwhelming coverage in domestic and foreign media. During the four days of the International Games Event hundreds of journalists, along with their teams, reported on nearly everything that came their way in Essen.
News Show for the media and retailers - a cost-free service:
An increasing number of publishers gain profile by introducing their new products on the occasion of Essen SPIEL. The Friedhelm Merz Verlag has created a cost-free "News Show" where journalists and retailers get first hand information on the latest games innovations.
Enormous appeal to visitors:
The International Games Event SPIEL, a must for all gamers, welcomed 158,000 visitors from all over the world. It has consolidated its reputation as an internationally unique phenomenon. The exhibitors' booths were teeming with gamers; courses and competitions were enthusiastically accepted. Retailers, teachers, representatives of public institutions and the whole game community collected information on the novelties of the year. For many exhibitors the Essen SPIEL not only paid in terms of public relations but also in hard currency. Many games had soon been out of stock and new merchandise was quickly called in.
SPIEL '14 also resounded positively from the booths of foreign companies. Exhibitors from abroad spoke of an ever increasing licence business.
The whole range of the game industry displayed at SPIEL:
All kinds of products are presented at Essen: from family, adult, children and parlour games to strategy, mail, adventure, fantasy and science fiction games. An increasing number of electronic games adds to the range of classic board games; but also books dealing with games and toys.
The idea of the SPIEL games event in Essen:
The secret of this fair's success remains the basic idea that goes back to 1983: the idea of inviting the consumer and gamer, to play new games and toys and make up his own mind about the quality of the individual game. Thus, the direct impact of a new product can easily be perceived and represents a perfect means of measuring its general appeal. As there are also many retailers and key accounts, the obvious interest in new releases also has a direct impact on the decisions this group of people has to make, as to which new game should better be put on the retailers' order list.
Program:
The International Games Event SPIEL provides an extensive list of fringe events. Almost all exhibitors would hold bigger or smaller competitions which attract players as well as the attention of journalists. There are, e.g., V.I.P. tables where famous game inventors sign their games, live role games, championships and tournaments. Numerous associations inform on classics such as Chess, Go etc.
Prices:
Thanks to the option of booking inexpensive "10 sqm-mini-booths", from 582,-- EUR + VAT up, the Essen SPIEL also enjoys the presence of inventor booths, small publishers and toy manufacturers. All exhibitors are free to sell their products on the fair. Thus the Essen SPIEL offers a big chance of introducing small, risky productions to the market and helps to get a few steps further towards - at least - break even point; either by selling the product directly to the consumer, or by licensing the product over to other, maybe bigger manufacturers. Apart from the special "10 sqm-mini-booth" prices the basic price per square meter for booths bigger than 10 sqm is 94,-- EUR + VAT.
Application:
The forthcoming SPIEL '15 is obviously bound to become another big success, as already at this time of the year many bookings have been made for autumn, i.e. for October 8th to 11th, 2015. To make your reservation, please contact Mrs. Dominique Metzler or Verena Elsen, Friedhelm Merz Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Bismarckallee 8 or P.O. Box 210250, D-53157 Bonn, by phone: +49/228/342273, fax +49/228/856312 or send us your full company name, address and contact details to info@merz-verlag.com.
Yours sincerely
Friedhelm Merz Verlag
