GULFOOD MANUFACTURING To Provide Growth Gateway

World’s Leading F&B Processors to Explore MEASA Expansion Avenues and Regional Manufacturers to Source Business improvement Tools at Dedicated Trade Event

Conceived to capitalise on unprecedented market demand for the region’s F&B processing industry, Gulfood Manufacturing will debut as the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia’s (MEASA) biggest-ever trade show launch.

With more than 1,000 international suppliers participating in the specialist B2B platform, the inaugural show is expected to gather more than 10,000 regional and global trade visitors, as well another 1,500 delegates who will share the latest industry insights, market trends and state-of-the-art technology and product innovations in a cache of niche shows, conferences and technical workshops.

The industry heavyweights are primed to utilise Gulfood Manufacturing’s unique proposition as a one-stop-shop to source the latest ingredients, processing machinery, packaging equipment and logistics, warehousing and cold chain solutions to enable faster, cheaper and cost-effective production of safer and more reliable products – key enablers in saving costs and increasing revenues in the increasingly competitive global food trade industry.

As a vessel conceived to spur growth, Gulfood Manufacturing will leverage Dubai’s strategic position as a recognised manufacturing and logistics gateway between East and West and the primary re-export hub to emerging countries and economies across MEASA.

With GCC food imports forecast to reach US $ 53.1 billion by 2020 according to a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Gulfood Manufacturing will reverse the ‘finished foods’ focus of February’s annual Gulfood showcase and, instead, highlight the region’s ripe business potential as a leading international manufacturing and processing hub. MEASA’s largest-ever, industry-specific Hosted Buyer Programme will be a key asset in turning promise into product.

Designed to enable large multinational food producers to explore MEASA expansion avenues and empower regional food manufacturers to respond to increased customer demand by replacing and upgrading production line equipment, the Gulfood Manufacturing Hosted Buyer Programme in partnership with Tetra Pak will ensure companies seeking the manufacturing business improvement tools needed to compete in increasingly competitive global markets make multi-million dollar investment decisions at the event.

With influential buyers from Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Iran, Nigeria and others attending the show, the Hosted Buyer Programme encapsulates the entire Gulfood Manufacturing mandate: to highlight growth avenues, prompt dialogue and increase inward investment.

Aside from gathering the vast majority of the world’s major F&B processing players, the event’s ‘unique business potential’ has already been hailed by Dubai’s Food and Beverage Manufacturing Business Group (FBMG) – a non-profit industry body for F&B manufacturers based in the Emirate.

With established and industry newcomers from every corner of the globe heading to Gulfood Manufacturing to conduct high level networking and investment-driven discussions across the region’s food manufacturing sphere, the world looks set to follow suit.