CloserStill Media announces new partnership with a majority investment in CommerceNext

CloserStill Media, the producer of marketleading business events, exhibitions and conferences, announced it has purchased a majority stake of CommerceNext, a leading U.S. based company highly focused in ecommerce conference and community.

The CommerceNext team has a community-led portfolio which delivers a powerful event series and conference for marketers at retail and direct-toconsumer brands. CommerceNext was founded in 2017 by Veronika Sonsev, Scott Silverman and Allan Dick, who between them have more than thirty years of experience in the ecommerce and marketing technologies industries and have developed an engaged community through delivery of custom content and B2B events.

“We are delighted to be bringing the CommerceNext U.S. conferences and events business into ClosersStill Media U.S. CSM runs successful ecommerce events in the UK, Singapore and Spain, so, this will allow the teams at CommerceNext and CloserStill Media to collaborate globally with the content, commercial sales and audience development to add even more firepower to the already successful events around the country” said Yancy

Weinrich, President, North America. CommerceNext produces highly rated ecommerce conferences and events including its annual summit, The Ecommerce Growth Show, as well as webinars, executives dinners, curated networking events and industry research. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) for its annual conference far exceed industry averages and consistently top 50. CommerceNext will retain its existing operating structure with cofounders Scott Silverman, Veronika Sonsev and Allan Dick leading the business working alongside CloserStill Media’s U.S. leadership led by Yancy Weinrich, President, North America. CommerceNext’s 2023 annual summit, The Ecommerce Growth Show, will be held on June 20-21, at the New York Hilton Midtown.

Messe Düsseldorf and the CIVD extend their successful cooperation: the CARAVAN SALON will remain in Düsseldorf until at least 2028

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH and the Caravanning Industry Association (Caravaning Industrie Verband e. V. (CIVD)) will continue facing the future together and have renewed their cooperation for CARAVAN SALON DÜSSELDORF until 2028. This was agreed by the two partners by signing the new contract at the beginning of the new year.

“This trade fair’s move to Düsseldorf in 1993 was a stroke of luck – both for the event itself and for us as the organising trade fair company. Jointly with the CIVD we have developed CARAVAN SALON further and, ultimately, made it what it is today – the world’s biggest and most relevant trade fair for the caravanning sector.

The trust-based, constructive and fruitful cooperation with the Association as well as the loyalty many exhibitors show for their leading trade fair form the basis of this shared success. I am pleased that we will also jointly shape this path in future,” says Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director at Messe Düsseldorf. “Cohesion, continuity and innovative power are the hallmarks of the caravanning sector and the guiding idea of our Association.

This is why we are very happy to have had a strong partner by our side in the Düsseldorf trade fair company for over 30 years now, sharing these values and the passion for caravanning as a form of holiday together with us,” explains Daniel Onggowinarso, Managing Director of Caravaning Industrie Verband e.V. (CIVD).

February 2023