Every year more than 25 specialised events are held at the venue, attended by more than 6,000 participants from 50 countries.

[1][2][3] The history of trade fairs in Zagreb dates back to 1242 when the Hungarian king Bela IV issued a Golden Bull declaring Zagreb a free royal city and granting it the right to hold fairs.

Zagreb Assembly (Croatian: Zagrebački zbor), the predecessor to Zagreb Fair, was founded by a group of Croatian businessmen, including Ferdinand Budicki and Samuel David Alexander.

[4] In June 1941 the Croatian fascist, ultranationalist Ustaše regime established a transit camp for Jews in the Fairgrounds.

[6] In 1956 it was relocated to the newly constructed Novi Zagreb part of the city south of the river Sava.