Facts and figures ISM

Koelnmesse, Fair Grounds, Köln-Deutz

For exhibitors:
01.-03.02.2026 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
04.02.2026 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

For visitors:
01.-03.02.2026 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
04.02.2026 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Dayticket EUR 89.00
2 days ticket EUR 101.00
Seasonticket EUR 110.00

All ticket prices include VAT.

241.00 EUR/m²

276.00 EUR/m²

310.00 EUR/m²

20.00 EUR/m²

• Chocolate and chocolate products
• Sugar confectionery
• Biscuits
• Snack foods
• Trend Snacks
• Natural Sweets
• Breakfast Snacks
• Ice cream, deep-frozen confectionerys / raw pastes
• Trade magazines, associations

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. Heart and soul. In conjunction with ProSweets Cologne, the international supplier trade fair for the sweets and snacks industry, ISM represents the entire industrial value chain.
From 1-4 February 2026, the trade fair duo will once again turn the cathedral city into the hotspot of the industry.

Since December 2023

3.2, 4.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, CC East, Passage
3/11, 10/11 and Boulevard

Construction period
29.01.2026, 8:00 a.m. consistently to
31.01.2026, 8:00 p.m.

Dismantling period
04.02.2026, from 4:00 p.m. consistently to
05.02.2026, till midnight
06.02.2026, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

From 05.02.2026, midnight till 06.02.2026, 7:00 a.m. dismantling is not possible!

Trade visitors only

Manufacturers and Distributors of sweets and snacks ready packed for retail sale under the following headings:

• Chocolate and chocolate products
• Sugar confectionery
• Biscuits
• Snack foods
• Trend Snacks
• Natural Sweets
• Breakfast Snacks
• Ice cream, deep-frozen confectionery / raw pastes
• Trade magazines, associations

Buyers of the following retail and wholesale will be admitted:

• Confectionery, food and beverage wholesale, import and purchasing associations
• Trade chains and their regional branches
• Filling stations-chains - central/local administration
• Hypermarkets
• Suppliers for foodservice
• Retail confectionery trade
• Pastry shops, cafés, bakeries, confectioneries
• Cash & carry operations
• Bakery requirement wholesale
• Health food wholesalers
• Drugstore chains
• Department stores
• Online-food retailers
• Vending machine operators
• Nutrition scientists
• Food chemists
• Producers of sweets and snacks according to the list of products

1,513
100,000 m²
32,000

Sabine Schommer
e-mail: s.schommer@koelnmesse.de