The international horticultural industry meets at IPM ESSEN to present its innovations and new products to the trade public.
The world's leading trade fair is also the platform for numerous award ceremonies:
IPM ESSEN is the host sponsor for the AIPH International Grower of the Year (IGOTY) Awards in 2025.
The IGOTY Awards have been organized by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) and founding partner FloraCulture International (FCI) since 2019 and recognize the best of the best in ornamental plant production. The awards cover four categories: finished plants and trees, young plants, cut flowers and bulbs, and sustainability.
The IGOTY 2025 reception and awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, January 28rd, 2025, in the Ruhr Hall. In addition to the ceremony, the AIPH will host an industry conference and panel with inspiring speakers and previous IGOTY winners.
To secure your place, visit the AIPH Website
Since 2008, the latest plant innovations have been exhibited and honoured in the IPM Novelties Show at IPM ESSEN. All the plant exhibitors at IPM ESSEN will have the possibility of presenting their innovations in Hall 4.
"Innovations" in the terms of the exhibition regulations will include new breeds and new wild and growth forms which have not been known until now and have not been exhibited at any other German fair.
Register and secure the title "Plant Novelty of IPM 2025". Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
At IPM ESSEN 2025, the Show Your Colours Award will be presented in Hall 8 for the seventh time. The award is organised by Messe Essen in cooperation with BIZZ Communications.
Show Your Colours 2024 is about the added value of the plant expressed through the story behind the plant, i.e. storytelling. Both plants and plant concepts can be submitted. Often it is not enough to simply put a plant on the shelf to encourage the consumer to buy it. A garden plant alone may look beautiful, but that is not always the case. With added value in the form of a label, a beautiful pot, a clever concept or simply by giving information about the plant, it can attract more attention. Nowadays, companies are well prepared for this and give their plants that little bit extra. To encourage trade fair participants* to put their products in the right light with that certain something extra, the Show Your Colours Award IPM was created.
The application for 2025 is to follow.
A celebration of creativity, craftsmanship and lots of design fun awaits visitors and participants at the IPM Messe Cup at IPM ESSEN 2025. As an important industry competition, the IPM Messe Cup promises exciting floristic and horticultural creations.
Under the motto “Boundless blooming community”, the competition participants will once again present their skills and workpieces in the categories “Bouquet”, “Green Hero in a Pot” and “Container Planting” to the trade public - for the first time in Hall 5 in 2025.
The IPM Trade Fair Cup focuses on the range of floristry and horticultural services - coupled with a large portion of creativity. The aim is to showcase new floral trends, innovative flower arrangements, many stories about potted plants and a floral connection with the IPM. Prizes will be awarded to the workpieces that best realize the theme in a free design. The IPM Trade Fair Cup is hosted and organized by the Fachverband Deutscher Floristen Landesverband NRW e.V., the Landesverband Gartenbau NRW e.V. and Messe Essen.
The registration deadline is January 10, 2025.
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