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.

On October 4-5 employees of EXPOFORUM International visited New Delhi as part of the business mission of Russian companies to India. The business mission took place in the framework of India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission.

The session of the Interdepartmental Commission for Exhibition and Trade Fair Activities took place in the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Moscow. Representatives of federal bodies of executive power and organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Trades, EXPOFORUM international, Roscongress Foundation, the Russian Convention Bureau Association and others, took part.

The managers of ExpoForum International, RESTEC Exhibition Association and RosJewelerExpert signed strategic agreements on June 28 on the terms and conditions for organizing and holding exhibitions in the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Center in 2019–2023.