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Welcome to the Congress Center Basel

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The MCH Group is active in all the different segments of the event market, with a competence spectrum that covers the full range of process steps. It creates first-class marketing platforms at internationally and nationally leading exhibitions and offers its clients customised solutions for their successful exhibition

• presence. The MCH Group similarly provides a range of services

at a large number of corporate and public events all over the world.

MCH Group – Global Live Marketing

− A key exhibition location in Europe − Organiser of Baselworld and Art Basel, the globally leading watch and jewellery, and art and design shows − 100 MCH and third-party exhibitions − 20,000 exhibiting companies − 2.3 million visitors each year, from all over the world

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Divisions

Exhibitions

Exhibition portfolio with more than 100 national and international exhibitions 45 MCH exhibitions and joint ventures in Basel, Zurich, Lausanne and other locations 55 third-party exhibitions

Venues

Messe Basel Event Hall Basel Congress Center Basel Musical Theater Basel Messe Zürich Theater 11 Zürich Expo Beaulieu Lausanne Théâtre Beaulieu Lausanne

Event services

Strategy & conception Marketing consulting Event management Digital printing Exhibition & event construction Multi-media events

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MCH Group infrastructure

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Architectural highlight meets multifunctionality

The exhibition building designed by Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron was brought into operation in 2013 and combines functionality with aesthetics in a virtually perfect manner. With the completion of the new complex at Messe Basel, our infrastructure has been considerably expanded by the new multifunctional Event Hall, together with its generously- dimensioned foyer and gallery.

• 141,000 m2 divided up over 5 halls
• Comprehensive and convenient visitor guidance
• Central entrance via the City Lounge
• Congress Center linked directly to the Hall 1 by a

footbridge

• Maximum possible energy efficiency guaranteed by the

Minergie label

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Congress Center Basel Facts & Figures

Number of rooms 25 Room capacity (Pax) 20 – 10,000 Events per year 250 Parking spaces in the Messe Basel car park 1,200

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Place of Knowledge and Innovation

The Congress Center Basel offers scope for innovative ideas, sustainable relations and successful developments.

The Congress Center Basel ─ the biggest centre of its kind in Switzerland ─ forms part of the dynamic MCH Group: the company that operates three state-of-the art exhibition, congress and event infrastructures in Basel, Zurich and Lausanne. As a client of the Congress Center Basel, you benefit from our experience and our efficient networking at all the different levels.

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Reasons to opt for the Congress Center in Basel

− Unique location at the heart of Europe, where Switzerland, France and Germany all meet − Situated in the city centre, right next to Messe Basel − Switzerland's biggest conference centre in terms of area − Multifunctional, modular rooms − 9,000 hotel rooms, with 1,000 within walking distance − Dense public-transport network, free of charge for hotel guests − Headquarters of globally leading companies (Novartis, Hoffman La Roche, GABA International, Straumann, Actelion, etc.) − Europe's most important life science location − Switzerland's oldest university city and a leading European location for teaching and research − Cultural capital of Switzerland with more than 40 museums − Multi-faceted city with a historic old town

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WLAN throughout, clear visitor guidance and varied catering are provided as a matter of course. With our professional team, we ensure your congress participants benefit from everything expected of a modern congress. Our experienced specialists similarly take charge of the accompanying exhibition, leaving you free to concentrate on fostering relationships and on the contents of your congress.

Congresses with accompanying exhibitions

References Participants DGHO Three-country conference (Haematology & Oncology) 5,000 OSCE Ministerial Council 2,500 SETAC Europe 24th Annual Meeting (environmental toxicology) 2,000 SGIM Annual Meeting (general internal medicine) 2,000 IFA Congress International Fiscal Association 2,000 ECTMIH Tropical Medicine and Intern. Health 1,500 SGOT Congress (orthopaedics and traumatology) 1,500

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At meetings and seminars, the focus is on the exchange of

• knowledge. The surroundings should be both inspiring and
• motivating. With our modern premises and state-of-the-art

technical aids, we guarantee that your seminar or meeting will be a complete success. We offer you just the right setting – whether for 20 or 2,000 participants.

Meetings | Seminars

References Participants Sales meeting Zürich Insurance 1,300 SAP Forum 1,000 Coop management meeting 500 CDISC Europe Interchange 300 Subaru representatives meeting 450 DSM sales meeting 170

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Whether for a company anniversary, an award event or an employee party, the setting has to be just right: the stunning Herzog & de Meuron architecture is one key aspect and our state-of-the-art equipment another. We have the right room or hall for staging your event too – no matter whether 100 or 5,000 people will be coming. Because no event is too big for us!

Banquets | Gala Events

References Participants Endress + Hauser employee event 700 Baloise 150th anniversary 750 ISS Facility Service AG Christmas party 950 Best of Swiss Gastro 750 Trade association meeting “Gewerbeverband BS” 500

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Opt for reliable partners when staging your annual general

• meeting. In addition to a professional approach, many years'

experience and a high level of flexibility, it is trust that is the most important criterion. And we are able to offer you all of these.

Annual General Meetings

References Participants UBS Group AG 2,000

• F. Hoffmann La Roche

900 Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 400 BKB employee meeting 2,500 Lonza Group AG 200 Bell AG 1,500 Raiffeisenbank Arlesheim 600

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Bryan Adams, Leona Lewis and Kanye West are all celebrities who have featured on our stages already. Whether an international production in the Musical Theater Basel seating 1,500 or world-class step dance for 3,000 people in the Event Hall by Herzog & de Meuron: put the spotlight on your stars too.

Concerts | Musicals

References Baloise Session Bryan Adams The Blues Brothers Disney The Lion King in the Musical Theater “Drummeli” Basel pre-carnival event . . . plus many more!

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The MCH Group organises around 100 MCH and third-party exhibitions each year. And we will be pleased to make this know-how available to you as well – in our own infrastructure. Messe Basel offers you five modern and readily accessible exhibition halls with a surface area of 141,000 m2.

Trade fairs| Exhibitions

References Visitors Exhibition surface area Baselworld 150,000 141,000 m2 Art Basel 98,000 24,150 m2 Swissbau 104,156 140,000 m2 Muba 132,234 55,000 m2 Fantasy Basel 20,000 10,000 m2 Design Miami 28,200 12,475 m2 Body Worlds 30,000 4,800 m2

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Wassermann & Company manages the catering for all the events at Messe Basel and offers you and your guests customised concepts with authentic, honest cuisine. This incorporates as much local colour and down-to-earthness as possible and as much internationality and innovation as

• necessary. The food is prepared in the modern production

kitchen located directly on the exhibition ground.

Wassermann & Company – Top-quality, enthusiastic catering

− For meetings, conferences, exhibitions and banquets of practically any size − All budgets, all sizes, all themes

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"Service means looking at the entire event from the client's point of view." A motivated team is at your side, with our extensive range of services, to assist you in staging your event. Because your success is our success too.

Extensive range of services

− Consultancy – planning − Exhibition service − Inscription concept − Technical experts on-the-spot − On-site catering partner