International Precious Metals & Commodities Show

Gold cracks another round mark. The silver price ($40/oz) is also in the game, although it is still trading below its 1980 high after 45 years.

Gold knows no bounds, it just keeps rising and rising! For the first time ever, gold has broken through the $3,000 mark.

The second edition of “Forum ONE” once again took place with 400 paying investors and a hand-picked number of sponsors/exhibitors.

We look back on twenty years: “International Precious Metals & Commodities Show” and “Forum ONE” together, including the 20 issues of our accompanying brochure “Das Edelmetall & Rohstoffmagazin”.

The upward trend for the precious metal remains intact. Just one more doubling and it will have increased twentyfold (as it did between 1973 and 1980).

The first newly designed event took place in a 5-star hotel in Munich. 400 paying investors met with a hand-picked number of sponsors/exhibitors. Just like before, but in a smaller, more elegant setting: making new contacts, listening to expert talks and company presentations, and talking shop with speakers and like-minded people.

(Due to the situation, we continued on from „Goldseiten on Tour“ (2007).) 

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At the beginning of September it was still a rumor, but by mid-September 2022 it was a fact: the International Precious Metals and Commodities Show was also allowed to reopen its doors. 

This presented us with an unprecedented challenge: only two months to plan. Unlike many others, we did not suffer from a decline in exhibitors and/or visitors compared to our 2019 fair.

Pandemic, long COVID, and coronavirus are the new buzzwords. Fearmongering and bans are the result. We were forced to adapt our event and go online. A YouTube channel was set up specifically for this purpose. Three weeks after the first virtual trade fair, we have recorded almost 400,000 views and 4,000 new subscribers.

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Gold breaks through the $2,000 per ounce mark for the first time.

The “International Precious Metals & Commodities Show” took place at the Event Arena for 10 years and at the MVG Museum for 5 years.

Gold falls by half between September 2011 and December 2015, to just over $1,000. (The euro falls below this round mark.)

The search for a new venue is proving extremely difficult. We are too big for some locations and too small for others (such as the Munich Trade Fair in Riem). The compromise was the Munich Public Transport Museum.

The Munich City Council decides to demolish our event hall to make way for a new multifunctional hall (SAP Garden).

After 10 years in the Event Arena, the precious metals fair was held for the last time in Munich's Olympic Park.

Almost 200 exhibiting companies! Our event in the Event Arena is sold out to the last square millimeter.

The financial crash is still having an effect: Some mines no longer exist, the rest have only partially digested the 60% to 90% price crash. From now on, there is only the precious metals fair.

On September 15, 2008, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The crisis was rooted in the US real estate bubble. A tremor swept through the financial world, and the markets were shocked. We were too, as many exhibiting mining companies canceled or defaulted on their invoices.

(In the run-up to the crisis, commodity events mushroomed. In Germany alone, four such events took place from September to November 2008: three in Munich and one in Frankfurt am Main. Of the four, only one trade fair remained the following year.)

At the turn of the year 2007/08, gold scrapes its 1980 record high ( $850/oz), only to overcome it in January 2008.

The positive response from the previous year prompted us to explore further ideas and implement projects. These included a new logo and a redesigned website.

(Gold price: approximately USD 635/oz)

The “International Precious Metals & Commodities Show” opens its doors for the first time. The “Event Arena” (formerly the velodrome) in Munich's Olympic Park is now the annual hotspot for gold bugs.

(Gold price: approx. $450/oz)

Two months after the gold price low, Goldseiten.de goes online. The first German-language website on precious metals and commodities.

In 1971, the Bretton Woods system collapses due to the escalating US national debt. The result is a massive rise in the price of gold, from $42.50 to $850 per ounce - a twenty-fold increase in just under 10 years.

After reaching a high in January 1980, the precious metal fell for 20 years, reaching a low in August 1999.