12.05.2011 Ina Stoltze is the new Head of Brand Management for IFFA and Texcare

Ina Stoltze has been appointed Head of Brand Management of Messe Frankfurt with effect from May 2011. In addition to the
Frankfurt-based trade fairs, IFFA, Texcare International and Texcare Forum, her responsibilities include the systematic expansion of these trade-fair brands worldwide, including the existing events, Tecno Fidta powered by IFFA, Texcare Asia und Texcare Russia.

The IFFA and Texcare Brand Management Department has been newly founded and belongs to the Technology & Production Division, in which the investment-goods fairs organised by Messe Frankfurt are concentrated. The restructuring and expansion of the division in terms of personnel is part of Messe Frankfurt’s strategy of significantly increasing its level of investment in growth regions of the world where export-oriented German plant and machinery manufacturers hold a strong position and lead the market.

Austrian-born Ina Stoltze has been with Messe Frankfurt since 1999. Initially, she worked as press officer for the company’s technological fairs before being appointed Head of Marketing Communication, PR / Internet, for the consumer-goods fairs. Thus, she has many years of professional and managerial experience and has multifarious contacts throughout the fair and exhibition business. She is married and has one son.

Texcare International is the world’s biggest investment-goods fair for the textile-care sector and will next be held in Frankfurt am Main from 5 to 9 May 2012. Previously, the event was the responsibility of Dirk John. IFFA is the leading international trade fair for the meat-processing industry and is held in Frankfurt am Main every three years. To date, it has been managed by Maria Hasselman. The next IFFA will be held from 4 to 9 May 2013.

Texcare Forum, Forum for Modern Textile Care, focuses on subjects of future-oriented interest to the textile-care sector and will next be held in November 2014.

The dates of other fairs outside Germany are, in chronological order:

• Texcare Russia, Moscow:
  20 to 22 September 2011
• Texcare Asia, Beijing:
  17 to 19 November 2011
  
• Tecno Fidta powered by IFFA, Buenos Aires:
  18 to 21 September 2012.