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FRUCHTWELT BODENSEE 2026
350
exhibitors
from 19 countries
13.630
visitors
from 27 countries
More than
33.500 sqm
exhibition space
Various programm
with lectures and workshops
4 country region Lake Constance
with hotspot Messe Friedrichshafen
Good reasons to participate
✔️ Ideal Timing
The show takes place every two years in February. For three whole days, expert knowledge is exchanged in 4 halls and in the outdoor grounds. That allows you to plan your investment long-term and sustainably.
✔️Your target group is here
As an industry player, you will meet qualified trade visitors from around 30 countries – in other words, the key partners for your business.
✔️Numerous innovations
Naturally, a trade show presents trends and innovations. In Friedrichshafen, you have the added bonus of huge momentum with, for example, a special focus on start-ups and their innovations. You will also get to see new products and world innovations.
✔️Powerful media presence
As an exhibitor you benefit from comprehensive communication measures that cover both the national and international media. Whether it’s editorial reporting or advertising, online or offline – with this media presence the FRUCHTWELT BODENSEE – and you – will be on everybody’s lips.
✔️Comprehensive side programme
Numerous professional talks and a high-calibre side programme provide valuable knowledge from which you can benefit over the long term. It is not only the most topical issues that are discussed here: industry-relevant findings are also presented, and important networks created.
Exhibitor comments from 2026
Anja Renz, Managing Director of Obstregion Bodensee e.V.
“Fruit growers from all over Europe have gathered here over the past few days to exchange ideas and make valuable new contacts that can be used throughout the year. It is important for us to present ourselves. Our informative presentations were very well attended, which makes me very happy, because the trade fair is an important mouthpiece for the fruit growing industry.”
Dr. Manfred Büchele, Managing Director of the Competence Center for Fruit Cultivation Lake Constance (Kompetenzzentrum Obstbau Bodensee/KOB)
“My personal conversations with exhibitors indicate that agricultural businesses are still willing to invest, even in these challenging times, and that makes me very optimistic. Fruchtwelt Bodensee is a must-have in Germany. Practitioners from all over Europe come to the trade fair, where they can find what they need in the field of fruit growing and are actually willing to invest. The KOB presented practical interregional projects, focusing on irrigation, which were very well received."
Arne Wolters, Sales Consultant for Special Crops, Bayer CropScience Germany GmbH
"In our opinion, Fruchtwelt Bodensee is one of the two most important fruit tree trade fairs in Germany and definitely the most important in southern Germany. In my opinion, it is a very successful event and we have always had brisk demand. For us as a company, official advice, trade, and fruit growers themselves are important, and all three groups were represented here. We definitely reached our target audience in the area of special crops, especially for apple cultivation, which is our focus. In addition to presenting our company and providing advice on other products, our main goal was to promote our new organic plant protection approach, which we succeeded in doing. There was a great deal of interest in this, which was very productive and exciting."
Dr. Jascha Babette Bonmassar, Managing Director of Hermes Service & Sales GmbH
“We presented our new harvesting machine with an electric conveyor belt system here and hope that our appearance at the trade fair will enable us to enter the southern German market. We have been active in the harvesting sector in South Tyrol for 50 years with our conveyor machines. We were able to establish good contacts and will see in the post-trade fair business whether these will also bear fruit.”
Adam Babić, Managing Director of APITAL d.o.o.
“I like this trade fair because all the major competitors in our industry were represented here. We had many discussions with potential dealers, especially with potential buyers.”
Sebastian Wilomski, Head of Research and Development, NK Automatyka
“The Start-Up Area gave us the opportunity to connect with people who are interested in innovation. We decided to present our prototype at Fruchtwelt Bodensee because we focus on apple harvesting and can talk directly to experts in this region who specialize in dessert apples and manage their own orchards.”
Patrick Brühwiler, Managing Director of Qualifru AG
"We are the Swiss market leader and also active in the field of fruit growing. We come to Fruchtwelt Bodensee to present new products and maintain customer contacts. For us, it is the most important trade fair for fruit and berry growing, precisely because of its location on Lake Constance, close to Switzerland. Fruchtwelt Bodensee was once again very successful for us this year and we are very satisfied. We had lots of ideas, made many contacts, and there was a great deal of interest."
Robert Reck-Heinrich, Managing Director of Cargo Plast GmbH
“Our goal this year was to publicize our new cherry harvest crates so that we could then sell them throughout Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The trade fair provides us with the perfect platform for this, as it is here that we meet the people who make the decisions. I have been an exhibitor since this trade fair was first launched. Fruchtwelt Bodensee is the leading trade fair for this region and a top-class event.”
Stefaan Stas, Managing Director of STAS N.V. Fruitteeltmachines
"We have been coming to Fruchtwelt Bodensee with our machines for many years because we have many customers in Germany. Here, I can reach 80 to 90 percent of them in three days. We had good contacts, including from other European countries such as Slovenia and Austria. There were a little fewer people this year, but those who were there were interested and had questions. I am very satisfied, and I plan to come back in 2028."
Patrick Adelhelm, Junior Managing Director of Adelhelm Landtechnik Maschinenbau
"Fruchtwelt Bodensee is a very important trade fair for us, especially in the field of apple cultivation and fruit growing in general. This is my fifth time here, and I will be back again in two years. Our experiences have been good. We had many discussions with existing customers and also new customers. The situation in forestry and fruit growing is currently very tense, and this is of course also noticeable in the discussions. Since last year, we have expanded our product range to include hoeing technology, which we were able to present for the first time at Fruchtwelt Bodensee and for which we have already received very positive feedback."
Christian Kopp, Product Manager for Smart Farming and Special Crops Technology, ZG Raiffeisen Technik GmbH
"We sell other products besides fruit-growing technology, but when it comes to fruit growing, Fruchtwelt Bodensee is our leading trade fair. Our goal is a mix of existing customer care, new customer acquisition, and project generation. This year, we had a larger booth and significantly more exhibits. We had actually hoped for a slightly larger number of visitors, but the quality of the discussions and the visitors was very positive. We also received many inquiries from customers who came to the trade fair specifically to gather information."
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