Alimentaria, in its international development plan and in order to provide exhibitors more and better business opportunities, both through international contacts and networking possibilities, organize various meetings in collaboration with international organizations and institutions.
In the coming edition, Alimentaria will organize the following event
Food&Drink Business Meetings: distribution meetings between Spanish companies and foreign buyers, organized by FIAB (Spanish acronym for Food and Drinks’s Industry Federation of Spain) with the sponsor of ICEX (Spanish acronym for Foreign Trade Spanish Institute) and MARM (Ministry of Agriculture).
Brokerage Event: organized by EEN Catalonia-ACC1Ó which belongs to the promotional public entities of innovation, internationalization and competitiveness biggest net in the world (Enterprise Europe Network). The objective of these meetings is to provide to European companies the opportunity to enter into bilateral interviews with potential international trading partners. Subscription is free and open to all the manufactures and trading international companies.
Hosted Buyers Programme: The objective of the Hosted Buyers program is to assure both exhibitors and visitors an effective investment of time and resources, in response to the current economic situation. The program provides to international top level decision makers an invitation with special conditions in order to offer them the opportunity to obtain a visit that will be a profitable investment in terms of time, money and results.
The Consumer Goods Forum: For the first time Alimentaria has reached an agreement of collaboration with The Consumers Goods Forum, a network that brings together senior executives from all over the world and it is born from the merger of CIES – The Food Business Forum with the Global CEO Forum and the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI), two collaborative platforms of manufactures and distributors. Thanks to this agreement of collaboration, The Forum will provide information about Alimentaria and a special access to the exhibition to all its retailer members.
Seminars: Alimentaria puts at the disposal of the international exhibitor two seminars with the aim of providing a deeper knowledge on the different opportunities of financing that exist for R+D projects in the Agro-Food Industry and the presentation of the study of the competitiveness of the European Agro-Food Industry. The seminars will be held in English.