Vietnam Foodexpo: The event welcomed by food businesses every year

Reporter: Through 3 consecutive successful editions, Vietnam Foodexpo has become an important trade point for food businesses in Vietnam and the world, creating a favorable destination for periodical economic, trade and investment cooperation. The exhibition is welcomed by a great deal of businesses annually. Can you tell us which product categories will be introduced at Vietnam Foodexpo 2018?

Vietnam Foodexpo 2018 will continue to contribute to the dynamic development of Vietnamese food industry, showing Vietnam’s position as a focal supply source in Asia for diversified raw food materials and processed food. They include: Vegetables, seafood, beverages, tea and coffee, food ingredients (rice, nuts, spices, additives, sauces ...), processed foods (confectionery, milk, canned food, processed food, healthy foods ...).

In addition, the exhibition also spares an area for Foodtech, which specializes in displaying, demonstrating advanced food processing machines, equipment and technology in Vietnam and the world.

Reporter: How is the scale of the coming exhibition compared to previous editions, Madam?

The exhibition continues to be the biggest event of the food industry in Vietnam. It will have the same scale of over 600 booths of 450 businesses producing and trading agricultural and food products as it did last year and occupy the maximized display area of ​​the exhibition building. Besides Vietnamese businesses, there will be exhibitors from 23 countries and territories, bringing Vietnam Foodexpo 2018 to become the event with biggest number of exhibitors to date.

The exhibitors have many famous and prominent Vietnamese brands such as TH True Milk, Sai Gon Satra, Quang Ngai, Thach Bich, Vinasoy, Nam Phuong, Sa Giang, Vedan, Big C, Antesco, Luong Quoi, Hoang Anh, Phu Thinh, Fresh Garden ... and foreign brands such as Turatti, PND (Italy), Rieckermann (Germany), etc.

Vietnam Foodexpo 2018 is expected to welcome more than 20,000 visitors, including traders, potential buyers, wholesalers, retailers and small retailers of the domestic food industry and many export markets of Vietnam such as Korea, Japan, China, USA, EU, Singapore, Middle East, Hong Kong, etc.

Reporter: Can you briefly introduce sideline activities of the exhibition?

Besides exhibiting and introducing commodities, Vietnam Foodexpo 2018 will have many other activities such as business match-making program between Vietnamese and foreign companies, international business delegation welcomes, on site consultation on export as per companies’ requirements.

Along with that, there will be an international forum discussing measures to boost the development of Vietnamese food industry; a series of other trade and investment promotion activities such as the Seminar on Investment Promotion in the Vietnam food processing industry, Saigon International Cooking Contest 2018, the signing ceremony of business agreements, food shows, Vietnam Foodexpo 2018 Impression Award, etc.

Reporter: Thank you, Madam!