“Romexpo is my top priority. We’ve changed the management and appointed Catalin Trifu (at bthe end of May, replacing Mariana Suciu – e.n.)general manager. Romexpo will become an entity that will monopolize all fairs in Bucharest. I have told the new management that if any fairs are held in Bucharest in other places than Romexpo, someone at Romexpo must pay. There’s a fair at Romaero for EUR4 per square meter? We’ll offer EUR3. The city hall offers the Constitution Square for free, we can offer space for free. I will accept no arguments for fairs being held anywhere else in Bucharest. The only argument I can accept is that Romexpo is completely booked” CCIR president Mihai Daraban said Friday.
He said Romexpo currently makes a profit of EUR200,000-300,000 a year but has the potential to make at least EUR2 million a year, a level last reached before 2007.
In 2013, Romexpo hosted 40 fairs and exhibitions of its own, 18 fairs and events organized by its partners, 390 seminars, conferences, workshops and congresses, three open-air events, five concerts and one music festival. The center had a turnover of EUR11 million, from nearly EUR10 million the year before.