Gulfood 2016 - Gulfood 2016: Why is it great for your export business?

One show that featured around 90000 visitors with a whopping 64% international audience (from 156 nations) was Gulfood Dubai 2015. Making it to the wish-lists of top food and hospitality companies and the related crowd, Gulfood is around the corner again. This largest annual food and hospitality show is scheduled in Dubai for 21st-25th February this year. The show helps analyse price, quality, service, reliability and consistency of the innovations and latest trends.
The majority of buyer-crowd among the visitors is expected to be bakeries, bar industrialists, caterers, distributors, people in the education sector, the groups associated with governments, associations, hospitality, retail, restaurants and cafe chains. Food manufacturers see Gulfood as a great opportunity to launch their new product lines. Gulfood will provide new products, a great global launch platform. This prestigious event has four prominent themes:
Halal food
Food science and manufacture
Global food security and public health
The food industry
Gulfood 2015 saw an investment of more than US$3,88,395 for marketing which gained 167 million impressions. Gulfood 2016 is expected to see a participation of over 2000 exhibitors from over 120 countries. Last year, 29% exhibitors had assured to have lined up over US$500K and 71% of them opined that they had generated leads up to US$500K from the orders and business contracts that they earned during the show.
Visitors benefits:
Gulfood Connexions is the registration platform that helps visitors get registered with the show to schedule the meetings with the exhibitors upon shortlisting based on interest. The registrants can walk in the show with a printout of their meeting schedule on the updated floor plan. The visitors can choose from the extensive sub-category of the food industry that interests their business.
Conferences:
Gulfood conferences which will be held for 3 days is expected to feature over a thousand delegates from various countries. Conferences are aimed to cover the following topics this year:
Forging partnership overseas, taking action for Arab food security
Best practices in Franchising
Panel discussion for start up food and beverage entrepreneurs, exporting Halal certified food to gulf (Gulf Cooperation Council- GCC) countries, Halal standards, industrialising Africa, Agriculture in Arab world
Engineering food for health, Processed foods and health, Public health
Veganism and the global food crisis
Case study of Salaam gateway, McFarlane Telfer Ltd,
Business visitors feel that 5 days are not enough to cover the huge show. Be a visitor or an exhibitor or a sponsor, grow the know-how about your business, reach out to the world and allow your business prosper king-size.