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1789
Our Manchester Square buildings (which is still Montgomery Group Headquarters today) were completed and first occupied by aristocrats fleeing the French Revolution. -
1895Montgomery’s Founder; Greville Montgomery MP launched the company.
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1895Greville Montgomery MP launched the First Building Show at Westminster in 1895 to support the ailing clay workers whose Institute of Clayworkers he had founded that year.
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1897
The First Building Show then became the world’s first biennial show. -
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1903
We launched our first mining show known as the Colliery Show. -
1909The Building Exhibition was visited by the Prince & Princess of Wales shortly before their accession, on the death of King Edward VII, as King George V and Queen Mary.
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1930
The only architectural work ever carried out in Britain by Le Corbusier was a stand at the 1930 Building show for Venesta. This marked the arrival of ‘modernism’ to the UK. -
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1935
Hotel, Restaurant & Catering (later called Hotelympia) was launched and is the longest running Trade Show in the UK. -
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1937
One of the only public duties of King Edward VIII in 1937 was visiting the Building Exhibition at Olympia. -
1967Molly and Bryan Montgomery founded Specialised Exhibitions (Pty) Ltd in South Africa, which is still part of The Montgomery Group and is one of South Africa’s leading exhibition organisers.
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1968Sandy Angus, Montgomery Groups past Chairman, joins the company.
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1979IFE was launched and still runs today as the leading food & drink trade event.
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1984The Liverpool Garden Festival attracted 3.4m visitors – the largest event in the UK since the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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1986David Hockney provides the design for the poster for Art LA.
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1990Hotelympia was visited by Princess Diana – Olympia had suffered some damage to the roof that year from a particularly bad storm and attendees had to evacuate, mostly to the pub!
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1992Chef Gordon Ramsey wins National Chef of the Year at Salon Culinaire.
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1999Fresh RM is launched as a joint venture company between Montgomery and Reed Exhibitions and Speciality & Fine Food Fair was launched.
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2006Our first show in Libya was launched to tackle the oil & gas and infrastructure sectors.
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2007The launch of the World Photography Awards in Cannes sponsored by Sony – this has gone on to become a global platform for photography around the world followed a year later by the launch of ArtHK which went on to become Art Basel Hong Kong.
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2011Montgomery purchased Reed Exhibitions share of Fresh RM and Fresh Montgomery now Montgomery Events was born.
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2013The launch edition of Electra Mining Botswana was attended by 0.1% of the entire population of Botswana and made headline news that night.
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2014Delivered the first Festival of Business in Liverpool in conjunction with the UK Government. Launched the Africa Rising event as part of the festival.
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2015
Ran our first humanitarian aid event when Montgomery purchased AidEx, and Montgomery Aid & Development was born. We also celebrated our 120th birthday in style in the Manchester Square Gardens. -
2016Acquired the full ownership of the Independent Hotel Show and Montgomery wins most Memorable Event Moment for our 120th Birthday Celebrations – which was a new award for the AEO Award.
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2017The recently-launched Montgomery Asia launched their first events; Speciality & Fine Food Fair Asia and Restaurant, Pub & Bar Asia.
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2018
Montgomery acquires FIT Show – the leading event for the window, door and flat glass sector and Montgomery Group Managing Director Damion Angus is 2018 Chair of the Association of Event Organisers (AEO). -
2019Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam is launched.
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2021
Winner of the Organiser of the Century Award. -
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2023
Our new launch artfair in Singapore - ArtSG - wins best launch event Asia at the AEO Awards.
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