INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS: Group to ramp up work

GENEVA: The world's largest trade fair and conference organiser, the Reed Exhibitions Germany/Switzerland Group, is to ramp up its corporate relations work. Area group president Urs A Ingold has handed this task to former group spokesman Gerhard Nowak, starting in January 2003. Nowak will focus on maintaining contacts with the authorities, politicians, economists and associations which organise exhibitions and conferences through the Reed Group.