The world of innovation and creativity in the bakery, confectionery and hospitality sectors moved to the city of Târgu Mureş (Romania) during March 18-20, 2011. GastroPan, the most important specialized trade fair in Romania, gathered more than 12,000 visitors, 92 exhibitors from 12 countries, demo shows supported by master chefs, bakers and confectioners, high class professional contests involving over 120 competitors, many prizes and surprises.

The event registered a sharp growth over last year, both in the number of exhibitors (increase of 46%) and the exhibiting area (+ 43%), which rose to a total surface of 5,000 square meters. The range of professional solutions for the activities of bakery, confectionery and food industry presented to the pits had a similar increase.

One of the main highlights at GastroPan 2011 was the series of professional competitions called “Show your skills”. Thousands of visitors and the media were attracted by hundreds of competing products shown by more than 120 specialists representing restaurants, bakeries and confectioneries from across the country and abroad. It took a surface of over 1,500 square meters only to display the various kinds of breads, pastry products and unique cakes, artistic creations from dough, sugar, marzipan or chocolate, esthetic sets of cold dishes or the impressive fruit and vegetable carvings.

The value of the trade fair was also given by the support shown by the most important international professional organizations. Attending the event, Peter Becker, president of International Union of Bakers (UIB), was pleasantly surprised by the scale of the exhibition, comparing its value and impact with other high quality trade fairs from Eastern Europe and even South-America or Asia.

The organizers wish to thank all the specialists, professional associations, visitors and exhibitors, who all brought their contribution in organizing one of the most valued exhibition in the Eastern European bakery, confectionary and hospitality industries.

The next edition of GastroPan International Trade Fair will take place in spring 2012.

The 2012 edition of IPACK-IMA, to be staged at Fiera Milano from February 28th to March 3rd, was presented today to the international business community gathered in Düsseldorf for Interpack.

In 2012 IPACK-IMA is set to be the pivotal global exhibition in the industry of technologies and materials for processing, packaging and material handling. The unparalleled technological level and the exhaustiveness of the display showcasing the world’s top-notch product offer for both food and non-food sectors have enabled the event to further establish an excellent reputation and crucial role with the Business Communities of its nine main target markets: Grain Based Food, Dairy Products, Beverage, Confectionery, Vegetables & Fruit, Fresh and Convenience Food, Health and Personal Care, Chemicals - industrial & home, Industrial & Durable Goods.

The next edition will be number twenty-two and will enjoy the prestigious leadership of one of Italy’s primary industrialists, Paolo Barilla. His name and background are tightly entwined with Italy’s leadership in the global food market. IPACK-IMA 2012 also boasts outstanding supporters including national bodies such as the Ministries of Economic Development and Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policy, as well as international organizations the caliber of the UN’s food agencies, UNIDO and the World Food Programme. This brings further prestige to the 2012 edition of the exhibition, which will in turn springboard IPACK-IMA 2015 towards its joint date with the Milan International EXPO.  

During the presentation Diana Battaggia, Head UNIDO Itpo Italy, illustrated the Technology Innovation Award for Food Safety in Developing Countries, an initiative developed by UNIDO and WFP in connection with the packaging industry, which will have its culminating moment at IPACK-IMA 2012. This award will include three different categories: technologies and processes to guarantee food safety, innovative packaging to ensure food safety and innovative packaging for emergency situations. The award-giving ceremony will be held during IPACK-IMA 2012 in conjunction with the great international convention "Appropriate Food Technologies (AFT) for Food Safety and Food Security in African Countries", organized in partnership by IPACK-IMA, UNIDO and WFP.

“IPACK-IMA 2012 can already count on the participation of major names in the industry as early as one year from the opening day” says Ipack-Ima CEO Guido Corbella. “All major companies have already secured their areas, in addition to an impressive new subscription rate (20%). This remarkable performance anticipates the event’s oncoming success; an extensive exhibition surface and substantial investment to assemble machinery and full production lines on the fairgrounds signal IPACK-IMA’s key role as a product and technology showcase as well as a crucial opportunity for discussion and relation-building.

A cross–section of the product display shows packaging machinery as the largest segment (29%), followed by food processing machinery at 23% which increases to 28% when considering beverage machinery on display at the Bevertech area. The not-to-miss date at Fiera Milano will also be a chance to observe and compare different large-scale production lines, fully assembled and functioning for the entire public to see.

During the presentation, president Paolo Barilla emphasized IPACK-IMA’s key role on the markets it serves. This is an extremely significant acknowledgment especially in consideration of Paolo Barilla’s institutional role as president of AIDEPI, born from the union of the Association of Italian Pastry Industries and the Association of Industrial Pasta Makers.

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At Rimini Fiera from January 21st to 25th 2012, gelato, pastry, confectionery and bakery at the centre of new features and great events
After the 106,685 trade visitors in 2011 (a 10.6% increase), SIGEP 2012 (Rimini Fiera, 21-25 January) is aiming for an extraordinary 33rd edition.

SIGEP plays a world-leading role in the sector: one visitor out of five arrives from abroad. In the context of the project "Top Buyers from Five Continents", thanks to its foreign marketing strategies, and its network of sales correspondents, which has 35 offices worldwide, SIGEP ensures companies meetings with international buyers by means of the Rimini Fiera Marketplace, which organizes an agenda of meetings on the basis of the supply and demand,.

An international profile which, combined with the quality of the expo and events and the impressive media coverage (496 journalists accredited, over 100 million contacts in 2011), ensures enterprises and trade members an appointment that absolutely must not be missed.

In 2012 SIGEP will occupy 90,000 m2 with 750 companies. As well as the expo area, there will also be a program of exceptional events, starting with the traditional Idea Workshop (gelato), 1000 ideas for a new flavour (gelato), National pastry and chocolate junior under-22 Championship, Italian senior team Pastry Championship, SIGEP Giovani, SIGEP Bread Cup (bread baking), I Love Pizza, Tecpa (pasta), All Around Coffee, Sigift (decorations), Comunicando Award, etc.

2012 will also feature new events: the Gelato World Cup will be back, expanded to twelve nations from the five continents and dedicated to the theme "Fruits of the Earth and Sea"; eager expectation for The Pastry Queen, the first ladies world pastry championship, with ten countries competing; plus the Grand Gala of Pastry, dedicated to the great  international pastry masters, with the winners of the World Cup in Lyon and those of Rimini's Junior World Cup who, along the queens of The Pastry Queen, will present the works that made them famous.

On the exhibition front, worthy of note is the new BIOSIGEP, ingredients, processes and directions for organic products, a recognition of companies and products that have introduced the use of organic products in the artisan confectionery chain.

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The 2011 edition  has recorded a  participation of more than 6000 visitors, 1000 meetings between sellers and buyers coming from all over Europe, North America and Asia
 
“Olio Capitale”, the only fair in Italy exclusively devoted to  extra virgin olive oil , looks ahead to the next edition in 2012: this exhibition of typical extra virgin olive oils  will be held again in Trieste (Italy) from 2  to 5  March 2012 and its organization will still  be coordinated  by Aries, the Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste which will once again propose its original  programme including not only business meetings and sales, but also  tasting workshops and shows.
 
More than 6000 visitors and   1000  meetings between exhibitors and foreign buyers: these data by themselves may provide a tangible evidence of the success  recorded this year by "Olio Capitale". The expo in Trieste,  a privileged showcase for the Central and Eastern European Countries, has gathered  this year exhibitors of brands and new products, among which chocolate and ice cream produced with olive oil, proposed by more than 200 producing companies  from all over Italy, especially from the Italian Abruzzo and Apulia regions in addition to Spain, Portugal, Slovenia and Croatia.  
 
This fair owes its international character also to the participation of visitors, catering sector professionals and enthusiasts of food and wine specialties coming in large numbers from bordering countries, especially from Austria and Slovenia; not to mention the participation of experts of the sector, among whom first of all buyers coming from all over Europe,   USA and Asia. Sales during the fair, but more specifically the presence of so many guests and visitors who are becoming increasingly fond of such products and who are  refining their taste and improving their knowledge of extra virgin olive oil, have been of determining importance in terms of the remarkable  positive results for exhibitors.   

“I commit myself to involving the 105 Chambers of Commerce  in Italy  and the 73 Italian Chambers of Commerce  abroad in the forthcoming 6th edition, with a view to widening the network of contacts and relations”, has remarked  Antonio Paoletti, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste. “We have always believed in this event, whose accent is exclusively put on olive oil without choosing other products such as food or wines, as a second choice, to reach success no matter with what product, as happens in other similar events. The name is self-explanatory: Trieste, the olive oil capital city,  and exclusively olive oil,  in a town marked by profitable trade business, and  where both producing companies  and exhibitors are duly safeguarded”. Visitors are attracted by a rich series of side entertaining events  which  at the same time spread the culture of healthy food and healthy eating, as witnessed by  Emilio Cuk’s Cooking school.

A significant, self-explanatory, event marking this four day fair, in terms of attention devoted to dynamics affecting and involving the participants, was the presentation of the Italian olive oil “Manifesto per il Risorgimento”, an action plan to relaunch this sector, to stress the value of a product such as the extra virgin olive oil, which in the course of time received no real support from a trade-related point of view. Such action plan, whose Italian title refers to the Italian Resurgence movement, was illustrated to an audience  of experts and professionals in the field  by Luigi Caricato, oil specialist and director of “Teatro Naturale”, a media partner of  “Olio Capitale” .

Within the framework of the fair, the   “Olio Capitale Competition" also took place, with  three olive oils selected by three different juries  ( professional tasters' jury, cooks  and caterers'  jury  and  consumers' jury) with a jointly taken decision; the winners of 2011 are:

• Slightly Fruity Category  : Farmhouse in Altomena (Pelago – FI), traditional  organic
• Medium Fruity Category : Agrestis Agricultural Cooperative  (Buccheri – SR), Bell'Omio Biologico
• Intense  Fruity Category  :  Organic Agricultural   Titone (Trapani),  Dop Valli trapanesi

Special mentions :
•  Consumers' Jury   and caterers' jury : Potosi 10 SA, Jaen (Spain), Fuenroble
•  Tasters'  Jury : Organic Agricultural Company Titone, Trapani, Dop Valli Trapanasi

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SIA GUEST 2011: FULL STEAM AHEAD WITH FOREIGN PROMOTION

 The campaign for the 61^st International Hospitality Exhibition, at Rimini Fiera from November 26^th to 29^th

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 Rimini, 9^th May 2011 – The promotion and sales campaigns are proceeding full steam ahead for SIA GUEST 2011, the 61^st International Hospitality Exhibition, which Rimini Fiera is organizing from 26^th to 29^th November with the sponsorship of Federalberghi and the AIPI Italian Association of Interior Designers.

To present SIA GUEST 2011, Rimini Fiera has  scheduled participation in twenty international expos and events, as well as having begun cooperation with fifteen of the most important Italian and foreign trade associations.

The intensity of the promotion program abroad also aims at increasing the already large number of one-to-one  meetings on stands (1,024 were  registered between 150 foreign trade members and 200 exhibitors in 2010).

The foreign promotion has specific targets: management and owners of 4 and 5 star hotels, as well as designers. In the meantime, the geographic areas from which the highly selected buyers taking part in the expo will come have also already been identified: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and Balkan area. In these nations, promotion is coordinated by Rimini Fiera through a network of agents in direct contact with reference targets and integrated with an advertising schedule in the sector’s most important magazines.

Confirmed, for the third consecutive year, the collaboration with the SBID, The Society of British Interior Design, which will attend SIA GUEST with a delegation.

 Rimini Fiera also presented the next edition of the International Hospitality Exhibition at the 38^th General Meeting of the EHMA, which was held in Saint Petersburg from April 28^th to May 1^st at the Grand Hotel Europa, on the topic “From crisis to new growth”. The European Hotel Managers Association also includes 90 Italian venues (there are 350 worldwide, the most qualified and top level). SIA GUEST 2011 will host the meeting of the Italian Chapter of this prestigious Association.

 There is also busy communication activity under way with the professional world linked with the tourist hospitality sector: 36,000 names have been selected with appropriate profiles and reached by informative mailings that are sent by SIA GUEST during the year to promote the expo, announce events and present new products by companies taking part.

 Approximately 170,000 invitations have been distributed to potential visitors, 20,000 of whom will also receive the presentation brochure.

 Last but not least, SIA GUEST 2011 was presented at the 61^st general meeting of Federalberghi, recently held in Florence, while a pro-expo tour is under way round the federation’s regional management offices, with the aim of encouraging members to visit Rimini.