The Hannover Messe is the world's biggest industrial fair. It is held on theHanover fairground in Hanover,Germany.The Hannover Messe started in 1947 in an undamaged factory building in Laatzen, south of Hanover, by an arrangement of the British military government in order to boost the economic advancement of post-war Germany. In the 1980s, the growing information and telecommunication industry forced the organizer Deutsche Messe AG to split the fair. TheCeBIT is a successful spin-off of the Hannover Messe.
