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The World Fruit & Vegetable Show 21-22nd October - London
United Kingdom
Thursday 25 October 2007
The World Fruit and Vegetable Show at Excel London, opened its doors at 9.30 am Sunday morning, 21st October, for the first time ever in the United Kingdom and closed its doors at 5.00 pm on Monday evening .
There were over 80 stands with more than 120 exhibitors, representing individual companies and country pavilions from 22 countries around the world.
The variety of exhibitors and the products they were displaying, was of a high standard. Demonstrations on several stands, with themes varying from cooking vegetables, carving designs using fruits and vegetables, to packaging machinery in action, created interest for the visitor.
The Sunday agenda also included “The Food Miles Debate“, focusing on the environmental and social challenges arising from the travel of fresh fruit and vegetables around the world. Held within the forum area, this was indeed a lively and informative debate, airing all sides of the argument, for and against. Chaired with great skill by Nigel Jenney (Chairman of the Fresh Produce Consortium) opinions were presented and debated. Speakers included - Umran Kaggwa the chairperson of HPOU the Ugandan fresh produce export association. Ken Hayes of the Soil association, Tony Colman, former Labour MP, director of africapractice and councillor for World Future Council and Rogier van Beugen from Air France KLM cargo.
The launch show is always extremely difficult for any exhibition both in attracting exhibitors and visitors and although there was a good turn out of exhibitors, despite the organisers best efforts, visitor numbers were lower than target. However, buyers from many of the UKs major food retailers did attend and feed back from exhibitors was that although they expected more visitors, the quality of the visitors they met, was good, contacts had been made and in some cases orders taken. A spokesman from ITP (the organiser) said that they had talked to most of the exhibitors and the majority had been happy with the show organisation, presentation and contacts made.
The organiser also wanted to thank the participants who had supported the show for its first year, “we wish all our exhibitors every success for the coming year and would like to thank everyone who took the time to visit.” said Diane Snowden, (Show Manager).
The World Fruit & Vegetable Show will open it’s doors again the 8th and 9th October 2008. Organisation has already started for next year, with interest already from exhibitors and country pavilions unable to attend in 2007 and repeat bookings from this years event. Despite the first year teething problems, this show seems destined to grow into the major meeting and trading place for the fruit and vegetable industry, in the UK.
There were over 80 stands with more than 120 exhibitors, representing individual companies and country pavilions from 22 countries around the world.
The variety of exhibitors and the products they were displaying, was of a high standard. Demonstrations on several stands, with themes varying from cooking vegetables, carving designs using fruits and vegetables, to packaging machinery in action, created interest for the visitor.
The Sunday agenda also included “The Food Miles Debate“, focusing on the environmental and social challenges arising from the travel of fresh fruit and vegetables around the world. Held within the forum area, this was indeed a lively and informative debate, airing all sides of the argument, for and against. Chaired with great skill by Nigel Jenney (Chairman of the Fresh Produce Consortium) opinions were presented and debated. Speakers included - Umran Kaggwa the chairperson of HPOU the Ugandan fresh produce export association. Ken Hayes of the Soil association, Tony Colman, former Labour MP, director of africapractice and councillor for World Future Council and Rogier van Beugen from Air France KLM cargo.
The launch show is always extremely difficult for any exhibition both in attracting exhibitors and visitors and although there was a good turn out of exhibitors, despite the organisers best efforts, visitor numbers were lower than target. However, buyers from many of the UKs major food retailers did attend and feed back from exhibitors was that although they expected more visitors, the quality of the visitors they met, was good, contacts had been made and in some cases orders taken. A spokesman from ITP (the organiser) said that they had talked to most of the exhibitors and the majority had been happy with the show organisation, presentation and contacts made.
The organiser also wanted to thank the participants who had supported the show for its first year, “we wish all our exhibitors every success for the coming year and would like to thank everyone who took the time to visit.” said Diane Snowden, (Show Manager).
The World Fruit & Vegetable Show will open it’s doors again the 8th and 9th October 2008. Organisation has already started for next year, with interest already from exhibitors and country pavilions unable to attend in 2007 and repeat bookings from this years event. Despite the first year teething problems, this show seems destined to grow into the major meeting and trading place for the fruit and vegetable industry, in the UK.
