ITE Group plc is pleased to announce a partnership with Deutsche Messe Hannover to launch four new industrial tradeshows in Moscow in the autumn of 2010.

ITE Moscow's Director General, Alexander Shtalenkov said. "I am very pleased to be partnering Deutsche Messe in the organisation of the new Industrial Trade Fair Moscow. Our combined expertise and shared vision for the event gives me enormous confidence that it will be a great success".

Deutsche Messe Board Member, Dr. Andreas Gruchow said. "Despite the current global economic crisis, Russia is and will remain a key market for the global export sector. Our four new industrial tradeshows cover all the themes of core importance for the modernisation of Russia's industrial sector. We are confident that a recovery is just around the corner and that the Russian market will once again be in expansion mode. We have therefore made a carefully considered decision to invest now in what is a growth region of pivotal importance".

Russia remains fully committed to its program of industrial, public sector and infrastructure modernisation. It has a long and proud history in the machine-building and mechanical engineering sector but the country's need for modernisation is colossal, a fact that provides huge business opportunities for domestic and international industrial plant and machinery manufacturers.