SIAL Paris 2016

From 16th to 20th October 2016, Sial Paris will be celebrated, turning the City of Lights into the world capital of food, with an emphasis on creativity and agrifood innovation. This edition will feature 7.000 exhibitors from 104 countries which will attend the exhibition center Paris Nord Villepinte to present their products in 21 exhibition sectors. The influx of public forecasts for this year points to 160. 000 visitors.

Sial Paris has been consolidating along its trajectory as the event of the world’s largest food that will give your audience a taste experience full of new discoveries. The kitchen and the largest agri-food laboratory in the world, to exhibit new trends of spring and the direction in which the food is moving today and tomorrow.

The permanent inspiration continues to encourage the SIAL network and will feature the 2016 edition of Paris:
 More than 2.500 new registered products expected in operation Sial Innovation
 15 award categories, the XTC trends and TNS study
 The area of the winners SIAL Innovation 2015-2016 of the network, which will allow discover, in Paris, innovative products worldwide.

After the success of the initiative launched in 2014, the International Food Exhibition continues promoting emerging sectors, dedicating specific spaces. Thus, for the first time this year, the show will propose a sector “gluten-free” symbol of the required adjustment of the market to new behaviors and needs more educated and demanding consumers. Likewise, organic and fresh products, but also drinks, with beer and hot drinks will have their own section. In addition, an area “tech” will allow SMEs to present their technologies and equipment.

The opening of SIAL Paris coincides this year with the World Food Day of United Nations Organization. The entire global food industry will then met in Paris on October 16th to share the solutions of today and tomorrow, allowing reveal together the food challenge of the next 30 years.

The 2016 edition of SIAL Paris will also reflect the evolution and the strong lines of the distribution sector that has managed to enhance its bid against the multiplication of outlets. Two of every three visitors come to SIAL Paris to look for new products. Food buyers in this room a constantly renewed inspiration and all exhibitors offering dedicated to food distribution will be identified along a path dedicated to the sector business products.

Showcase of French food

In this edition, France remains the first country exhibitor at SIAL Paris, with more than 1.000 companies and 19% of the exhibition area. This year, the French food industry will enjoy a particular visibility, thanks to a privileged partnership with French brands and their buyers. For easy identification, the French exhibitors from 21 sectors present on the living room will be regrouped under a signaling “France” proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture. The “Guide to visit France” will facilitate its location.

SIAL Paris has been associated with MMM, the European specialist competitive travel distribution monitoring, to discover new retail concepts in France. Three “store tours” will be dedicated to innovative food concepts in Paris, specialized grocery store and “gourmet” segment, as well as the outlets of wines and spirits.

In the 2014 edition of Sial Paris, meat and dairy products accounted for more than 1.000 exhibitors, ie 15% of the room supply. In 2016, these two sectors will be subject to two conferences in SIAL TV and several stagings in the context of demonstrations “La Cuisine”.

This fair is also a borderless platform for building new partnerships and invest in other markets.