More than 73,000 trade visitors from 78 countries came to Munich. According to a survey by marketing-research institute TNS Infratest, visitors were extremely satisfied with the outcome of the fair: 96 percent gave the fair a rating of good to excellent.

Besides Germany, the countries with the largest contingents of visitors were Italy, Austria, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Switzerland, France, the Russian Federation and the USA, in that order. The number of visitors from Canada, the Russian Federation, Turkey, the USA, the Czech Republic, Austria and Asia saw a significance increase. Nicole Schmitt, Exhibition Group Director for electronica: "The large percentage of international guests proves once again that electronica is the world's leading trade fair for the electronics industry."

2,669 exhibitors from 49 countries presented their products and technologies. Besides Germany, the countries with the largest numbers of exhibitors were China, Taiwan, the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Hong Kong, France, Switzerland and Japan, in that order.


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