FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS TAVOLA

12th MARCH 2012

TAVOLA SHOW – BASIC INFORMATION• Sector : fine food and fresh products

• Dates : from 11th to 13th March 2012 (every 2 years)

• Place : “Kortrijk-Xpo” in Kortrijk (BE)

• Meeting point of all professionals of the fine fresh food sector in the Benelux and Northern France. • leading position as the exclusive business forum for

the retail food sector and the large catering organizations.

• The organizers apply extremely high quality standards when approving applications from candidate exhibitors at their event, and this ensures that there is always a unique specialist range of top quality food products on show each time round.

TAVOLA SHOW – FACTS & FIGURES 2010

• 11 041 m² of exhibition

• 395 exhibitors:• 64% are Belgium-based businesses

• 36% are from 11 different countries (FR, NL, LU, UK, DE, IRL, IT, SP, AUS, PL, USA)

• Sectors:

28%

27%

21%15%

14%

14%

13%

7%

6%6% meat, cured meat, game and poultry

delicatessen and specialities

ready-made dishes and traiteur products

bread, cakes and confectionnery

frozen food

dairy products

drinks and beverages

potato products, fruit and vegetables

fish and seafood

biological and organic food

TAVOLA SHOW – FACTS & FIGURES 2010

• 18 000 professional visitors (+2.3%) • from 24 countries - largely from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and northern

France.

• Exhibitors considered that both the number and quality of the visitors were high.

• Profile of trade visitors from retail and catering organizations:

• Buyers from large retail distributors (central purchasing organizations, hypermarkets, supermarkets) and medium-sized distributors

• Wholesalers (for retail and for the catering industry), distributors, import/export businesses

• Managers from small supermarkets and retailers: delicatessen businesses, caterers, butchers, dairies, fishmongers, drinks and beverages retailers, greengrocers, chocolate shops, etc.

• Buyers from catering businesses More info : www.tavola-xpo.be

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• International matchmaking event B2B

• Date: Monday 12th March 2012 (during Tavola show)

• FREE PACKAGE offered to participants, includes:• Signing-up for business meetings during the day on 12th March 2011 from 10.30 am

until 6pm

• Up to 12 meetings (of 30 minutes), selected and organized according to your choices

• Free access to the event and exhibitors

• Free lunch on 12th March 2012

• An invitation to the international drinks event (Monday 12th March 2012, from 6pm)

• + OPTIONAL: for people arriving on the 11th March: dinner + room (place and price to be confirmed, negociation with hotels in progress)

More info : www.tavola-xpo.be

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Places: room 3 in the Meeting Center of Kortrijk-Xpo (next to hall 6) + on the exhibitors’ stand

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Partnerships/B2B matching:• Technological

• Commercial

• Communication:• Special Website*: http://www.gie-eicwallons.be/v2/page.php?&eventId=45&languageId=2

• Invitation to companies

• (e-)mailing from EEN partners to their « clients »

• Negociation in progress with the show organisator in order to integrate

• News in Tavola’s newsletter

• 1 push button on Tavola’s home page leading to the special website

• 1 option on the sign-up form for Tavola’s visitors.

* still in progress, logos of partners and final information should be added. Suggestions are welcome!

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Planning

August

2011

• Website conception

September 2011

• EEN network motivation

October

2011

• Finalising communication tools and logistic aspects

November 2011

• Launching invitation to companies

Dec.2011 – Feb. 2012

• Signing-up of companies and follow-up of their profile and selections

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Planning7th

March

2012

• Matchmaking with the software

8th Marc

h 2012

• Preparation of B2B event (documents, materials)

9th Marc

h 2012

• Preparation of B2B event (logistic aspects)

12th Marc

h 2011

• FOOD Meetings and International cocktail

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS

• EEN partnerships for this event:• EEN Wallonia (BEP) – BE

• EEN Flanders (AO) – BE

• EEN Brussels ?

• Others ?

• Partnerships with other projects:• CTE GO-KMO (Interreg IV A France-Wallonia-Flanders, gathering 14 Belgian and

French economic institutions) : offers stands to companies on the « Village Gourmet Transfrontalier » with specific tariffs, services and animations (hall 4)

• 2Sea trade (Interreg IV A Kent-Flanders-SW Holland-Nord-Pas de Calais) : offers free stands for some UK companies (hall 4)