Bellagroup

Bellagroup is the Copenhagen company, legally Bella Operation A/S, that owns and runs the CIFF fashion fair along with Bella Center Copenhagen, where it is held. The group traces its roots to the Copenhagen Trade Fair of 1965 and says it welcomes more than one million guests a year to its venues and hotels.

What it means for you as an exhibitor or visitor

Because the organiser and the venue are the same company, the people selling you space at CIFF also run the halls, catering, safety and build schedules at Bella Center. CIFF lists its own sales team and a visitor desk on its contact page, and the venue’s in house services cover catering, safety, event tech and design. The group also runs CIFF Village, about 20,000 m2 of permanent showrooms upstairs at Bella Center with nearly 500 fashion brands, which gives buyers a reason to return between the two fairs each year.

Shows it runs

Bellagroup lists its own events on its Bella Center page:

• CIFF, the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, twice a year; next from 2 to 4 February 2027 at Bella Center, with more than 1,100 brands at its August 2026 edition.
• CIFF Paris, a showroom in Paris from 20 to 25 January 2027.
• Bogforum, which it calls Denmark’s largest book fair, for publishers, authors and readers.
• Copenhagen Gaming Week, a gaming and esports festival, from 19 to 21 February 2027.
• Loppemarked i Bella, an indoor flea market, on 5 and 6 December 2026.

Of these, CIFF is the trade fair; Bogforum, the gaming festival and the flea market are open to the public.

Company and venues

The group took its present form in 2014 as BC Hospitality Group A/S, bringing Bella Center, Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers and Bella Sky under one management, and later renamed itself Bellagroup. Alongside Bella Center and Bella Arena, which together offer more than 65,000 m2, it runs three hotels with nearly 1,600 rooms, Bella Sky Conference and Event, International House offices and 360 Venue Catering. Its management is led by chief executive Jesper Mark Dixen.

Related listings

CIFF appears in our fashion and textiles section next to Première Vision Paris and Heimtextil, run by Messe Frankfurt, which like Bellagroup also owns its exhibition grounds. Another organiser that runs its own venue is RAI Amsterdam Events, with more than 25 fairs a year at its Europaplein halls, against a single trade fair here. For suppliers in the city, see Copenhagen and our Denmark listings.

Source: bellagroup.dk