WorldFood Moscow is awaiting leaders of Russian and foreign markets of food products in Crocus Expo
The 30th anniversary exhibition of world class food products WorldFood Moscow has been opened today September 21, 2021 at Crocus Expo. The organizer of the event is Hyve Group of companies. Since its inception in 1991, it has grown to become the entry point for international manufacturers looking to enter the vibrant Russian market.
Every year, the event connects thousands of businesses from around the world with Russia's key food and drink buyers, including retail representatives from Russia’s leading supermarket chains, wholesalers, HoReCa sector members, and food manufacturers. Exhibitors are grouped into 15 main sectors, letting visitors easily find their products of interest and their manufacturers. The event is the perfect platform to promote new food and drink products in Russia. More than 1000 companies exhibit their products and services at the show.
In 2021, over 600 companies will participate in the anniversary exhibition, of which more than 110 will exhibit at WorldFood Moscow for the first time.
The Russian exposition will be represented by exhibitors from 59 regions: Altai Territory, Altai Republic, Republic of Buryatia, Irkutsk Region, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Kursk Region, Moscow Region, Primorsky Territory, Sakhalin Region, Udmurt Republic, Republic of Khakassia, Chelyabinsk Region, and others.
In addition, companies from 30 foreign countries will exhibit at WorldFood Moscow 2021. Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chile, Czech Republic, Egypt, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Peru, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Uzbekistan will arrange national pavilions on site.
Among the new exhibitors are such companies as: “Acorla”, “Greenwise”, “Sweet Life”, “IcePro”, “Arnas Agro”, “Baza”, “GoodWin”, “Dikoed”, “Zaliv Vostok”, “Master Jam”, “Mezheninovskaya poultry farm”, “Moyo Leto”, “Ochakovo” “Cherkizovo”, “Filimonov and Son”, “Fresh Izyum”, “Tsvet Prirody”, “Ecotopia”, and others.
The full list of WorldFood Moscow 2021 exhibitors is available here>>>
For the first time, WorldFood Moscow will feature a food truck zone, where “Efko”, in partnership with “Mobitruck”, will present its vegan meat products for street food. In a specialized zone (Hall 14, stand Ñ1049), negotiations will be held between the exhibitors and regional retail chains, members of the Union of Independent Chains of Russia, of which 35 regional chains showed interest in the products of WorldFood Moscow exhibitors.
The WorldFood Moscow 2021 business program will be formed by two major events.
One of them, the four-day Food Business Leaders’ Forum, will be focused on the exchange of experience and solutions to urgent problems of retail, as well as presentations of up-to date statistics and market trends, with the participation of industry leaders.
For the first time at WorldFood Moscow, the international experience of retail transformation will be presented by Ari Axeli, President of Finland's largest retail company “Kesko Grocery division”, and Jap van Vreden, Managing Director of “Goal Consulting Ltd Hong Kong & NL-Platform the Netherlands”. The main topics of discussion will be innovation, speed, and profitable store growth with a focus on sustainability and export.
As part of the Retail Academy program for commercial departments of retail chains, practical conferences will take place, focusing on the development of categories “Fruit and Vegetables”, “Confectionery”, “Fish and Seafood”, "Dairy Products and Cheese", and “Healthy Lifestyle and Organic”.
On 24 September, for the first time at WorldFood Moscow, the conference “Innovations for food retail. Instructions” will take place, where trading companies, platform aggregators, logisticians, retailers, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and distributors of food products, as well as other experts of the food industry will meet.
On the same date, a pitch session for food-tech startups will be held. Based on the voting of the jury consisting of top fund investors, well-known entrepreneurs and representatives of large corporations, the award will be given to innovative and scalable projects that are attractive for investment.
In addition, WorldFood Moscow will host two awards ceremonies: Product of the Year tasting competition and WorldFood Organic competition. More than 160 companies submitted applications, among them: “AISFER”, “AKKOND”, “United Confectioners”, “ECO Meat Processing Plant”, “First Russian Product”, “Danton-Ptitseprom”, “Melkombinat No. 3”, “Endaksi”, and others.
To celebrate the anniversary of WorldFood Moscow, the organizers will give away a certificate for 15,000 RUB among the visitors, for going to a restaurant. Anyone who takes a photo in the Fyffes zone (Hall 14, stand C6119) and publishes a photo on Instagram with the hashtag #worldfoodmoscow2021 can participate. The results of the competition will be announced on the last day of the exhibition, 24 September.
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See you at Crocus Expo till September 24, 2021 including!
- 21.09.2021
