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Buy trade visitor tickets for the Anuga

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Tickets for Anuga 2025 will be available here in due time before the fair.


The easy admission process for Anuga in three steps

1. You buy a ticket or redeem your digital ticket code:

  • Please register in the ticket shop and create a Koelnmesse account or log in with your existing credentials. In the ticket shop, you can buy your ticket or redeem and personalize your digital ticket code.
  • Additionally, you need to verify your identity as a trade visitor .

Buy ticket Redeem ticket code

2. You will receive an email with the ticket PDF

  • We will send you an order confirmation with the tickets as a PDF attachment. The tickets will also be available for download in the wallet of your respective device.
  • You can access your trade fair tickets at any time through "My Orders" in the ticket shop. With your printed ticket or with the ticket as a PDF/in the wallet of your mobile device, you will gain access to the exhibition grounds.

... or convenient and paperless: Use the app

With the app , you can easily and quickly retrieve your tickets digitally. Additionally, you will have access to up-to-date information about the event program (including search functionality), the venue, and more. Even after the event, you will be provided with relevant content and networking opportunities.

Our tip: Schedule appointments with your industry network for the event at least 3 months in advance. This can be easily and quickly done using the integrated calendar feature. You can find more good reasons to use the app here .

Of course, the app is free for you and is available for download for iPhone/iPad and Android in German and English.

3. You visit the trade fair

With your printed ticket or with the ticket as PDF or in the app of your mobile device you get access to the fairground.

Further information

Payment methods

You can pay by PayPal or credit card (MasterCard, VISA, American Express) in the Ticket Shop.

Access authorization

Trade visitor

Anuga is a trade fair. It is open to decision-makers (management, purchasing/procurement, store management, sales and marketing) from the following sectors of the food and drink industry: food retail and wholesale trade, drinks retail and wholesale trade, trade co-operatives, drugstores and health food stores, food and drink trade representatives, food and drink importing and exporting, food skilled trades, food and drink manufacturing industry and suppliers to the food and drink industry.

Responsible employees from companies engaged in the food service and catering market such as the hotel and catering trade, system/brand-name catering, industrial, communal and institutional catering including contract catering are also eligible to attend.

The show is also open to those involved in the procurement and installation of technical facilities and equipment, the planning of large-scale catering establishments as well as the specialist trade for technology for large scale catering establishments.

Visitors must be able to provide proof of their trade visitor status when acquiring their entrance tickets.

  • Technical school classes
    Technical school classes of certain training courses are permitted. The specialist school cards can only be purchased at the Federation of German Food Trade (BVLH) - after explicit permission.
    Students of industry-relevant courses can purchase the regular ticket in advance with the appropriate proof after the industry relevance of the enrolment has been checked.

    Please contact:
    Bundesverband des Deutschen Lebensmittelhandels e.V. (BVLH)
    Am Weidendamm 1A
    10117 Berlin, Germany
    Tel. +49 30 726250-80
    Fax +49 30 726250-85
    e-mail
    www.bvlh.net (only German language)

Travel ticket

You will receive your free travel ticket in a separate e-mail. For use of the public transport system please print out the PDF file in size A4 or download the PDF file to your mobile device.

The free travel ticket (2nd class) is valid for public transport in the expanded network of the Rhein Sieg Transportoperated by the Rhein Sieg Transport Authority (VRS) .

Exempted are trains of the Deutsche Bahn AG subject to a surcharge, e.g. the IC/EC or ICE.

The public transport ticket only provides authorization for arrival and departure in the context of a visit to Koelnmesse GmbH within the indicated period of the trade fair. It is non-transferable and only valid in connection with a valid photo identification and an admission ticket of Koelnmesse GmbH.

Further travel information can be found under the rubric Travel and accommodation .

Admission restrictions

You want to bring children along?

Children over the age of 15 are admitted only when accompanied by adults and in possession of a valid admission ticket.

Children below the age of 15 are not admitted.

Infants up to the age of one year may be brought to the fair if they are carried. Baby carriages are not permitted for safety reasons (danger of tripping).

Please note our rules!

Suitcase regulation

Guests with trade visitor tickets are not allowed to bring suitcases, trolleys or backpacks onto the trade fair grounds. These have to be deposited at the cloak room for free. Large empty bags are to be left at the cloak room as well. Briefcases, handbags and pilot suitcases in standard carry-on sizes (approx. 55x40x20 cm) are permitted.

Carriage of dogs and other pets

It is prohibited to bring dogs and other pets to our fair grounds.


We are happy to help you:

  • Anuga Hotline for visitors

    Tel. +49 221 821-1919
    Fax +49 221 821-991010

    Write an e-mail

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