Anuga Food Fair Opens

Turkey is a mong the most leading national exhibitors at the fair
For the 32nd time, Anuga will impressively demonstrate its importance as the leading international platform for the global food and beverage industry. This year 6,777 exhibitors from 98 countries will be presenting their products and services from 5 to 9 October 2013 in Cologne. The trade fair will occupy the entire exhibition center – a gross exhibition space of 284,000 m2.
EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger and Dr. Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank, are expected to attend the opening ceremony. With 6,777 exhibitors, a figure that surpasses the total for 2011, Anuga will once again provide purchasers from the trade and buyers from the food service and catering market with a broadly based and multifaceted information and ordering platform. In addition to major marketleading companies, numerous midsized and small suppliers will be taking part.
The suppliers will come from 98 countries, and the proportion of exhibitors from abroad will be 88 per cent. The largest contingents will be coming from Italy (1,043 exhibitors), Spain (447), the People’s Republic of China (409), France (255), Turkey (239), Greece (221), the Netherlands (212), Belgium (189), the USA (189) and Thailand (161). Large numbers of participants will also be sent by Poland, the UK and Austria. This year there will be a modest increase in the number of group participations from Turkey, Poland and the USA.