Rimini - Italian Exhibition Group

Covid-19: FAIRS IN ABSOLUTE SAFETY, HERE IS THE #SAFEBUSINESS PROJECT OF ITALIAN EXHIBITION GROUP. SEROLOGICAL SCREENING ALSO ON ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE GROUP

Rimini, 13 May 2020 - Trade fairs and participate in trade fairs in Italy in complete safety, in full compliance with health rules and protocols, protecting the health of companies and visitors.

The project launched by IEG Italian Exhibition Group is the #SAFEBUSINESS by IEG the exhibition and congress organizer based in Rimini and operating in Vicenza, Milan, Brescia, Rome, Arezzo and Naples, as well as in China, the United States and Dubai with companies connected.

Listed on the stock exchange, IEG designed this plan thanks to a work table with its exhibition and catering companies, technicians and international operators.

The project (at this link the complete document and the downloadable, publishable, royalty-free infographics www.iegexpo.it/en/safebusiness) focuses on each phase of the fair or congress experience.

“We have worked on this plan - says the CEO of IEG, Corrado Peraboni - with the desire to give a complete and reliable answer to the customers and the public who, today more than yesterday, ask us to be able to count on fairs and conferences to start again. We did it in line with the health rules against covid-19 and the documents drawn up by AEFI, FEDERCONGRESSI, UFI and EMECA which I thank for the constant presence on the topic ".

Over fifty indications are traced in the project downstream of a rigorous regulatory and organizational protocol.

Among others: sanitized shuttles between the airport, hotel and fair, equipped with disinfectants, with the obligation of masks on board and the programmed number of travelers; agreements with bike sharing companies and scooters, in agreement with hotels and local areas; ticket offices and online payments only, admissions programmed according to the capacity of the pavilions and opening hours of the extended fairs, mask distribution desk (mandatory to wear them and for the disabled, specific aids, such as transparent masks for IEG staff to facilitate the relationship with the deaf.), multiple entrances, safety corridors and distance signs, dematerialized access tickets, public controls with thermoscanner and sanitization path, cloakroom with automatic cycle and disposable covers.

The entire production chain designed and managed in safety, the flows of visitors monitored with centralized digital detection and the on-site supervision of remote-controlled stewards. Continuous cycle sanitation for all areas, rooms and services, sanitation for the filters of the air conditioning channels. Digitized information material, multimedia production and live streaming to support events, conferences, media.

For catering: temperature control of workers, gloves, masks, disposable gowns, payments with skip-the-line app, lunch box and single-portion coffee box, delivery to the stands with a coded process.

A strict crisis management protocol has been established which defines behavior on the spot in the presence of suspicious cases. IEG employees and event staff will be trained to guarantee and guarantee the safe performance of tasks, the use of PPE, compliance with strict procedures for personal hygiene and disinfection, and spacing.

And on the subject of employees, the president of the Italian Exhibition Group, Lorenzo Cagnoni announces that the company has decided on mass serological screening, on a voluntary basis: “We adopt it to protect our collaborators, the employees of the subsidiaries and all our relational system. Operating on different regions, we will do it according to the protocols issued and issued and a suitable application has already been submitted to the Emilia Romagna Region ".

FOCUS ON ITALIAN EXHIBITION GROUP

Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), listed on the Mercato Telematico Azionario organized and managed by Borsa Italiana SpA, is a leader in Italy in the organization of trade fair events and among the main operators in the trade fair and congress sector at European level, with the structures of Rimini and Vicenza, as well as in its further offices in Milan and Arezzo. The IEG Group stands out in the organization of events in five categories: Food & Beverage; Jewelery & Fashion; Tourism, Hospitality and Lifestyle; Wellness, Sport and Leisure; Green & Technology. In recent years, IEG has launched an important expansion path abroad, also through the conclusion of joint ventures with local operators (for example in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and China). IEG closed the 2019 financial statements with total consolidated revenues of 178.6 million euros, an EBITDA of 41.9 million and a consolidated net profit of 12.6 million. In 2019 IEG had 48 organized or hosted fairs and 190 conference events. www.iegexpo.it

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