News Release
For immediate releaseContacts: Francie Coulter
Mecklermedia Corporation
(203) 341-2972
fcoulter@mecklermedia.comBob Miko
Mecklermedia Corporation
(203) 341-2972
bmiko@mecklermedia.com
MECKLERMEDIA FALL INTERNET WORLD '96 SETS ATTENDANCE AND SALES RECORDS
December 17, 1996, Westport, CT--Mecklermedia Corporation (NASDAQ: MECK) today reported that its Fall Internet World Trade Show (December 11-13 at New York's Javits Center) with total attendance of 46,600 was the largest Internet event ever held (based on verified daily attendance). This figure is up 40% over the Fall 1995 show.
Fall Internet World with its 550 plus exhibiting companies and 240,000 paid square feet of exhibition space has firmly reinforced its position as the largest exhibition of its kind in the world. Another significant testimonial to the strength of this event is the fact that approximately 210,000 net square feet of space was purchased by this year's exhibitors in just three days for next year's show.
Mecklermedia also reported that contracted space for its upcoming Spring Internet World '97 scheduled for Los Angeles March 11-13 now stands at 260,000 contracted net square feet.
"The growth in attendance and exhibition space prove that Fall and Spring Internet World are clearly the Internet industry's leading trade shows," said Alan M. Meckler, chairman and CEO of Mecklermedia. "Our new trade show Internet World Summer at Chicago's McCormick Place, July 21-24, 1997, has already reached 55,000 net square feet of contracted exhibition space. In less than five weeks we've made Internet World Summer the third largest stand-alone Internet trade show in the world behind Spring and Fall Internet World."
Mecklermedia Corporation, based in Westport, Connecticut, is the leading provider of Internet information through its publications Internet World, Web Week, Web Developer, and Internet Shopper, its Internet World Trade Shows, Web Developer and Web Interactive Conferences, and iWORLD, its electronic daily newspaper for Internet information and resources, located at http://www.iworld.com. Mecklermedia's global presence includes Internet World trade shows and licensed publications throughout Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Australia.
