The Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona was founded in 1916 to foster commerce and industry, first within the free trade zone of Barcelona and after through real estate projects development for business use. The Executive Committee’s presidency falls at current on the Special Delegate of the State, Manuel Royes, appointed by the Council of Ministers.
In 1996, the Special Delegate of the State at El Consorci de la Zona Franca in those days, Enrique Lacalle, decided to create an “Exhibitions Department”. Its main activity focuses on promoting and boosting leading projects within the real estate and the logisitics sector, developing a ‘trade show know-how’.inside the Consorci. In there were created the exhibitions Barcelona Meeting Point in 1997 and the International Logistics Exhibition in 1998. Since then, the organizers have created other events in order to satisfy the needs of the different sectors at different times, and they have even exported some of those initiatives to other cities, both nationally and abroad: Marbella Meeting Point (Marbella, 2001), Americas Meeting Point (Buenos Aires, 2001), Portal Point (Barcelona, 2002), BCN Futur (Barcelona, 2004), Central Europe Meeting Point (Warsaw, 2006), International Air Meeting (Sabadell, 2007), Bucharest Meeting Point (Bucharest, 2008), Low Cost (Barcelona, 2009), Low Cost Madrid (Madrid, 2009) and Mini Expo Moscow (Moscow, 2011).
MINI EXPO MOSCOW
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Considering that 2011 is the "Year of Spain in Russia," we designed an exhibition named "Spain Today: Life and Innovation" to act as a liaison between the two countries and as a promotion of our products and services in Russia.
This Exhibition’s goal is to achieve a good position of the Spanish market in Russia! At a time when the country is becoming a new emerging nation, with more than 150 million people, we believed that we needed to perform an important event in order to draw Russia’s attention to all what we do in our different sectors, from tourism, real estate, high technology innovation, vine, cava to medicine, among others.
http://www.miniexpomoscu.com/home.htm
LOW COST

In 2009,, the Barcelona Meeting Point organizers created a new exhibition, LOW COST, a place where exhibitors may attend with or without their own brand, corporate name or infividually. With a clear objective: that “those who want to are able to sell and do sell, and those who need to buy, may do so as well. With a fundamental premise: “Everything at the best price”.
An exhibition that appears when both the industry and the individuals need it, with no ambiguities and with a clear message, with a concrete idea, with the aim that everybody wins and ends up satisfied. “Where sales and purchases are made”.
www.bmpsa.com/en/lowcost/
CENTRAL EUROPE MEETING POINT
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Central Europe Meeting Point, “Central & Eastern Europe’s Ultimate Real Estate Event” was created in 2006 to foster property businesses between Western companies and professionals and the main local players from the Central and Eastern European countries, especially Poland. The event consisted of a Symposium where the real estate markets by countries and by products were analyzed, an exhibition area next to the conferences where around 30 exhibiting companies displayed their products in 9 square meters modular stands, and on-site visits to the most prominent areas for redevelopment in the city of Warsaw.
http://www.centraleuropemeeting.com/
BUCHAREST MEETING POINT

In collaboraation of GP Holding and Markinvest, the first edition of Bucharest Meeting Point took place in 2008. The objective of this new event was to potentiate the real estate business networks among international developers and investors and the leaders of the industry in Romania, one of the hottest countries from the property perspective. With a format identical to Central Europe Meeting Point, BUMP offered a Symposium with formative sessions on legal, financing and planning issues related to real estate investments and developments in Romania.
http://www.bucharestmeeting.com/
INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS & MATERIAL HANDLING EXHIBITION (SIL)
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The International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition is the meeting point for all logistics activity in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, particularly the countries of the Magreb, Latin America and Southeast Asia. After 10 editions, SIL has become the Great Logistics and Transport event in Spain and is at second place in Europe’s exhibitions reference. SIL 2008 saw an important growth and spectacular development in the exhibition, consolidating itself in the international exhibition calendar as the logistics exhibitions of Southern Europe.
http://www.silbcn.com
MARBELLA MEETING POINT
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Marbella Meeting Point, International Tourism Real Estate Show, was born in 2001 due to an increasing demand from BMP’s exhibitors focused on this real estate segment. The market was asking for an exhibition entirely on residential tourism, and the BMP organizers created this new event that took place for five years in a row in Marbella. The best offer of tourism and leisure-related real estate projects and services from not only the Costa del Sol byt from all over the Mediterranean rim as well as from the Caribbean and the Latin American countries was displayed. And it was also open to the tourism-related “mountain” real estate projects like ski resorts. 10.000 square meters of exhibition space showcased golf resorts, marinas, residential projects, hotels, leisure parks, marketing and brokerage services, financial services, landscaping and architectural services, at the same time that attendees could visit on-site leading developments.
AMERICAS MEETING POINT
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Americas Meeting Point (AMP) was the outcome of the strategic alliance between Barcelona Meeting Point S.A. and the Pichón-Riviére Group, two companies sharing a common vocation to promote exhibitions as a development and progress tool, as a forum for the debate and the exchange of ideas and as a business catalyst. AMP was born to bechome the Largest Real Estate Event of the Americas and a meeting point for all those who operate, as sellers or buyers, in the international real estate market. The real estate market starts much before a sale is concluded and the building or property is actually sold. This market starts on the world of ideas and concepts. That is why a real estate meeting point must have both: a Symposium to debate the ideas and the concepts and an Exhibition, which is the showcase for the projects and the services available in the market.
PORTAL POINT
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PORTAL POINT, International Internet and e-Commerce Show, was created in 2002 to contribute to the promotion of one of the main tools for companies in the 21st century: Internet & New Technologies. The exhibition was addressed to a professional user, and it gathered both domestic and international exhibiting companies in an area of aproximately 3.000 square meters. The objective was that professional attendees could find useful digital applications that could improve the ordinary management of their companies.
BCNFUTUR
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An exciting new project started in 2004 together with Flaqué International. The aim was to turn Barcelona into the capital of the latest in several sectors. BCNFutur, the International Show of he Latest, was an innovative, and above all efficient, exhibition, that became the best ally for exhibiting companies in their Christmas campaign. This exhibition covered the needs regarding the increasing demand of products linked to design, to innovation. It gathered over 30 different sectors and combined creativity and commercial opportunity, becoming the “trade fair of the 21st century”.
INTERNATIONAL AIR MEETING
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The International Air Meeting (IAM) was born to increase the presence of the Aeronautics and Space industry in our territory, and to become the strategic point of these two sectors, clearly in expansion in Europe. IAM was the first Aeronautics Exhibition in Spain and spans recreational and executive aviation, including all industries and services that are developed around the aviation sector. Its main objectives were to create the ideal framework to strengthen and generate commercial agreements and contacts for companies and professionals form aeronautical sector, to strengthen the Aeronautics and Space sector, within a perfect geographical framework, to foster and consolidate the aeronautics scope by showing new challenges and opportunities and to share experiences between professionals and amateurs, to showcase the novelties of the sector and to offer a complete vision of the aviation sector in general, from leisure executive aviation, all the way to training and air works. |