ISM - The world’s largest trade fair for sweets and snacks

The world's leading trade fair for sweets and snacks bids you a warm welcome!

A successful combination between impulses and innovations, exciting networking, first-class exhibitors and competent visitors forms an offer that is unique around the globe. Here, you also find the world’s largest offer of private label in sweets & snacks.

Heart and soul: In conjunction with ProSweets Cologne, the international supplier trade fair for the sweets and snacks industry, ISM representeds the entire industrial value chain.

From 28.01.-31.01.2024, the trade fair duo will once again turn the cathedral city into the hotspot of the industry.

Learn more in the final report of ISM 2023

You can look forward to ISM!

Ideally you should note your next ISM date right now: 28.-31.01.2024.

Mark pink in the calendar now

Discover the segments of ISM

Hall and site plan (.pdf)

Be there for top events

Discover the event highlights of the ISM. Great surprises await you at ISM, the confectionery and snack trade fair. In the surroundings of the ISM and at the trade fair itself. It is best to make a note of it right away!

Discover now ISM events

Book your partner hotel

Book up to five rooms directly online in our hotel booking system.

Book your hotel

Of course, you will be online at ISM on the exhibition grounds

The free WiFi offer for the visitors is available via the SSID (name of the WiFi network) #hotspot.koelnmesse. After registration on the portal page of this network, you will have free access to the Internet.

ISM Cologne – intriguing facts that spark your curiosity

around 25,000

trade visitors from 135 countries

72 %

of the trade visitors are international

1,300

exhibitors from all 70 countries

88 %

of the exhibitors are international

Date and opening hours

Facts and figures

ISM newsletter

Travel and accomodation