The partnership agreement signed between the Italian project Final Furlong (Verona, Italy) and the Hipposphere International Equestrian Exhibition (EXPOFORUM International, St. Petersburg, Russia) was developed further: in the course of negotiations the parties made a decision to create a joint Russian-Italian alliance to open up significant commercial and economic possibilities.

Sergey Voronkov, the President of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (RUEF) and CEO of ExpoForum International, was appointed chairman of the Commission on Exhibition Activities of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE).

Expoforum became a laureate of Brand`s rating.

Saint Petersburg Convention Bureau turns 5 years old. Ambassadors of the city, dozens of the largest congress and exhibition international events, subsidies for organizers and hundreds of thousands of business tourists ‒ so SPB state budgetary institution "Congress and exhibition bureau" celebrates its fifth anniversary.

Alexander Beglov, Provisional Governor of St. Petersburg, congratulated ExpoForum-International for two memorable dates: first pavilions of Lenexpo Exhibition Complex were opened half a century ago, and in 2008, stakeholders of the company started putting the project of the most modern convention and exhibition center into life – Expoforum.

A team of EXPOFORUM International designers won the 22nd International Fair Poster Competition organized by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) in cooperation with the International Fair Plovdiv (Bulgaria).

On November 13, Peterfood 2018 opened in ExpoForum with more than 200 supplying companies and 100 representatives of purchasing departments of retail chains from 10 Russian cities taking part.