Tigy’s Blog

Well I’ve been pretty slack lately, so much going on haven’t had time to catch up on it all!

Works been pretty insane with some M&A stuff going on and in the middle of it all I spent a week in Germany for a trade show.

What a trade show it was. CeBit is the biggest trade show in the world, it mainly covers consumer electronics but also has a host of business to business stuff there to. Its in Hanover, which sort of seems to be a bit of a hole, except for its show grounds. I mean over half a million square meters of show grounds, 27 halls, 35 function rooms, resteraunts, shops even a beer hall to seat a few thousand people. There are buses and taxis ferrying people around, it took me over 15 minutes to walk from where we were based to where most of our customers were towards the other end of the grounds. Amazing stuff. They reckon they get about 500,000 visitors through, which is pretty impressive for a town with a population of about 500,000! Only in Germany could they pull this off. I mean the whole city gets together to get people too and from the showgrounds, even the motorways turn into one way systems to get people in, with public transport running every few minutes. We never had to wait more than a few minutes for a bus, train or taxi. Bloody amazing stuff.

Anyways I’ll post again soon on some of the other stuff we’re up to.