Bernexpo with a solid financial year - CEO Tom Winter leaves the company

Bernexpo closed the 2025 financial year on a solid note with a high turnover of over CHF 56 million and EBITDA of around CHF 4.7 million. The high investments made in recent years in digitalization, strengthening the event pipeline and the New Festival Hall are bearing fruit.

New festival hall successfully positioned

Good solutions were found for refinancing the high investments. The Neue Festhalle is successfully positioned on the market. Detailed information regarding the 2025 financial year will be published with the invitation to the Annual General Meeting on May 27, 2026.

Tom Winter leaves Bernexpo

Tom Winter has decided to accept a new challenge outside Bernexpo during the second half of 2026. The Board of Directors would like to thank him for his great personal commitment over the past five years or so. Together with the Board of Directors, he has managed to steer the company through the coronavirus pandemic. He has also gradually built up Bernexpo's digital expertise and strengthened the event pipeline for the future. Another highlight is the construction and opening of the Neue Festhalle, which has had a very successful first financial year. The Board of Directors has already initiated the succession process.

Bruno Battaglia becomes new CFO

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the various geopolitical upheavals, as well as the investments for the construction and completion of the Neue Festhalle, have placed enormous demands on the company's financial management. Jan Gilgen has therefore decided to step down from his position as CFO but remain with the company. The Board of Directors would like to thank Jan Gilgen for his great commitment.

Bruno Battaglia will take over the CFO role from September 2026. Bruno Battaglia, a proven financial expert and business economist, knows the company extremely well, as he already worked as CFO at Bernexpo from 2018 to 2021. The Board of Directors is looking forward to working with Bruno Battaglia.

Bernexpo stages more than 30 in-house and guest exhibitions and up to 600 events of all sizes every year. The Bernexpo site is one of the largest event locations in Switzerland. It comprises 100,000 square meters of outdoor space and around 50,000 square meters of indoor space spread over eight exhibition halls, 22 rooms and a multifunctional building with an event hall and congress center. With around 120 employees, the company is an important economic factor for the city and region of Bern.