The BEC generates in 2012 an economic impact of more than 72 million euros

The result of the economic impact generated by BEC comes caused by the external activities that generate in the hospitality industry, transport, trade, and recreational and cultural activities that have supposed 65,7%, as by the own activity ferial developed in BEC that has concretised in 34,3% remaining. It stands out in this section that two thirds of the economic impact produce in external activities and revierten directly in sectors and activities no ‘feriales'.

Along 2012, Bilbao Exhibition Centre received to a total of 2.284 display units and to 1.026.820 of visitors.

The final demand generated by BEC desglosa also between the different activities developed in the units of business of the institution ferial. In concrete, regarding contests has supposed 78%, BEC Conventions in 16,8%, Biscay Sand, 3,4% and another income (advertising income, commercial representations, etc.), 1,5%.

The result of the economic impact is the sum of the direct effects, indirect and induced generated by the activity of BEC, measured in terms of GDP, employment or income for Inland revenue. To these figures and milestones has to add the one who is main object of the activity of BEC, as they are the transactions and contacts, that is to say, the commercial activity in general, developed by and between his customers and visitors.

This analysis has realised with a methodology contrasted, objective, homogénea and external, based in the Methodological Frame Input-Output.

Bilbao Exhibition Centre has celebrated in 2012 a veintena of contests. In this year it shined, especially, the celebration of the Biennial of the Machine-Tool (BIEMH), with the participation of more than 1.000 signatures expositoras of 25 countries and the assistance of more than 34.000 professionals, as well as other contests like Foccus Bilbao, Fair of the gastronomy and the feeding that was headquarters of the international contest of the olive oil; Egurtek, Simposium International of architecture Construction in Wood in which professionals of the sector and political representatives issued a same message of positivism to the use and future of the wood in the construction.

One of the fundamental challenges of BEC during the past course and previous, went the one of the extension of his calendar of contests. During the past year have incorporated new evento like the International Congress of Tourism Enogastronómico, ‘Travel, Eat & Drink' that under the title ‘In search of the happiness through the tourism enogastronómico' and ‘The innovation in the tourism enogastronómico' developed a technological scientific program tackled by stood out international speakers. The organisation ran to charge of the University of Deusto and BEC. This congress llevar in parallel to the celebration of the 3º edition of Foccus Bilbao, Professional Fair of gastronomy and Feeding.

Likewise celebrated ‘Biospain', the 6º International Meeting of Biotechnology, a biennial evento organised by the Spanish Association of Bioempresas (Asebio) and the Society for the Competitive Transformation (SPRI). In this celebrated edition in BEC for the first time beat the record figures of the last celebrated edition in Pamplona in 2010 regarding the international presence, number of stands, meetings and visitors.

Also llevar , by third time in the installations of BEC, the XI Business Global Conference contest of itinerant character. It is the congress of reference on innovation, technology and knowledge of the Basque Country and, already in his eleventh edition, one of the most consolidated of the State.

The fair ‘Euro Espace Colour Bilbao', organised by the greater European group of shopping of independent distributors of painting and decoration. It was the first fair organised by this group to European level, with the aim to gather in a same space to all his providers and customers, and offer them a global vision of the entity and the integrated cheese cheese professionals in her. The group is integrated cheese cheese by Espace Revêtements (France), Eurocolor (Spain) and Copagro (Belgium and Holland) and account in the actuality with more than 300 establishments in these four markets.

Mention also, the peculiar ‘Fair of the Pintxo' that from his second edition, raisin to celebrate in BEC with the end to use the capacities and comforts that offers this enclosure.

On the other hand, Bilbao Exhibition Centre was the stage chosen to celebrate evento of diverse índole like the XV National Congress of the Volunteering; the 50 Anniversary of Gorabide; and the IV Congress of Excellence in the Gestión of local Administrations. Also it was headquarters of announcements of examinations of private and public entities like the British Institute, IVAP, UOC, IMF, and multitudinous like the llevar by the Basque Service of Health (Osakidetza).

Bilbao Exhibition Centre, besides collaborated with other organisations feriales, leaders in the world like Reed Exhibitions and DMG, to llevar a series of commercial representations of contests that celebrate abroad; and participated in the organisation and manufacturing of institutional commercial travel and of promotion of the fairs of BEC.

2012 was a year in which in Biscay Sand have celebrated the concerts of Serrat&Sabina, the group Extremoduro, and the first experience of a concert of rock euskaldun that under the denomination BECATU gathered to five groups: Berri Txarrak, Esne Beltza, Willis Drummond, Zea Mays and Zuloak. Also it explained , in Navidad, with the performance of the clowns Pirritx, Porrotx eta Marimotots.

In 2013, Bilbao Exhibition Centre goes to confront to the organisation and celebration of 29 contests two of them, Fair of the Stock and Desembalaje, with double edition.

This year goes to be the one of the celebration of the 20ª edition of Ferroforma/ Bricoforma that will celebrate of the 12 to 15 March. To commemorate this ephemeris are llevar a series of performances that go from proposing preferential prices to the companies that have been expositoras in the two last celebrated editions, financials to 0%', maintenance of the prices of the previous edition, discount by prompt registration, ‘packs' of stands key in hand and ‘packs' that engloban accommodation, parking, food and entrances, etc., organisation of days, workshops and exhibitions of product, etc. Likewise, and with the intention to give information of ‘first hand' to the professionals of the sector in Spain, Ferroforma-Bricoforma has realised a series of presentations of the contest in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Galicia, Seville and Portugal.

Imaginenano, that celebrates his II Exhibition/ Congress of Nanotechnologies and Nanociencias. This evento is the place of meeting of the global community of the nanotechnology, including scientific, companies, legislators and investors, immersed all in the avant-garde of the innovation, and is an evento of reference in Europe of face to the next years. Imaginenano Covers big part of the areas of the Nanociencia and the Nanotechnology: Power, Nanomaterials, Grafeno, Biology-Medicine, Photonic/Optical, etc. beside the last tendencies of the sector.

Besides, go to llevar contests of big importance for each one of the sectors that represents like Bilbao Marine Power Week organised by Tecnalia, EVE and BEC. Five days in which the sea, the power, the last technological advances and the most advanced projects will centre the debate of international experts in wind marine and the aprovechamiento energetic of the waves.

Another of the novelties will be Biocultura, Fair of ecological products and responsible consumption that will combine the area expositiva commercial with complementary activities. BioCultura Will offer to professionals and general public a wide variety of products, proposals and information that will invite to exert a responsible election in the habits of consumption.

After reaching an agreement with the Association Clúster of aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing and Space Hegan, Bilbao Exhibition Centre will organise the next edition of this meeting of international character very skilled and strategic, that engloba like strong point, a convention of interviews of businesses for contractors and providers, in addition to conferences around the tendencies of the sector. The evento will take place in the frame of the Industrial and Technological Summit, that will celebrate between the days 1 and 4 October 2013 and that as active stood out will have to Germany like ‘Country invited of honour'.

Besides, Bilbao Exhibition Centre has posed other challenges as it is to form part of a project of investigation applied by the European Community inside the 7º Program Marco, EPIC-HUB, in which they participate 10 companies, pertinent of Spain, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia and Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to develop an innovative system of integrated cheese cheese energetic gestión, applicable to surroundings with big infrastructures and active populational cores, to boost his interrelationship. BEC Will act like infrastructure in which test and implement an innovative system of gestión of integrated cheese cheese power in the surroundings.

Other challenges centre in the development of new mobile applications that, although already they have used in other fairs like the BIEMH, pretend to create channels of communication to the participation of the users (display units and visitors) of BEC.