Around 200 companies are expected to participate in

the Food Business Meetings TAVOLA 2016.

Take this opportunity to combine your fair

participation with the Food Business Meetings!

Monday 14th March 2016 Kortrijk-Xpo – Kortrijk - Belgium

Participation fee: free of charge (except transport,

accommodation and personal catering)

Registration: https://www.b2match.eu/foodbusinessmeetings2016

New contacts – More business

Food Business Meetings (FBM)

TAVOLA 2016

Face to face meetings - the way to successful business!

TAVOLA is “the” meeting point of all professionals of the fine fresh food sector in the

Benelux and Northern France. The fair has a “leading position as the exclusive business forum

for the retail food sector and the large catering organisations.”

The access to the fair is strictly limited to a professional and enthusiastic public. “The organisers

apply extremely high quality standards when approving applications from candidate exhibitors at

their event, and this ensures that there is always a unique specialist range of top quality food

products on show each time round.”

Thanks to these high quality standards, the idea of organising a matchmaking event is built to

offer exhibitors and visitors a unique opportunity to generate new business contacts and

contracts, thanks to a customizable, time and cost efficient agenda.

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More than 17 000 professionals from the food sector from 27 countries - mainly Belgium, Netherlands & France:

� Distribution: central purchasing organizations, hypermarkets, supermarkets

� Wholesale (for retail and catering), distributors, import and export companies

� Mini-markets and retailers: delicacies, traiteurs, butchers, dairies, fishmongers, off-licences, chocolate shops, greengrocers, etc.

� Catering companies and kitchen services

� Food producers, institutional organizations, trade journalists

172 companies took part at the 1st edition of the Food Business Meetings TAVOLA in 2012. More than 320 meetings could be arranged. Globally: good quality of the organisation and meetings • 67% of the participants participated in a B2B-

event for the first time • 77% of the participants were (very) satisfied

about the general organisation • 81% were (very) satisfied about their agenda • 90% were ready to participate in another B2B

event

How to participate?

Evaluation of the FBM TAVOLA

2014

1. Both exhibitors and visitors can participate.

2. On the website https://www.b2match.eu/foodbusinessmeetings2016 all participating companies fill in a company profile describing one´s activities, co-operation sought and offered.

3. These company profiles result in the on-line catalogue on https://www.b2match.eu/foodbusinessmeetings2016

4. You choose the companies you want to meet from the on-line catalogue and vice versa. You have to approve or refuse the meeting requests. The wishes result in individual meeting schedules.

5. The Food Business Meetings TAVOLA takes place during 1 day and each meeting lasts for 30 minutes

Exhibitors’ sectors at TAVOLA

390 carefully selected exhibitors from Belgium and other countries (NL, FR, UK, LU, etc.), qualitative offer of fresh food products and delicacies:

� Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, tea and coffee

� Biological and organic food

� Confectionery, bread and cakes

� Dairy products

� Delicacies, specialties and dry food

� Fish and shellfish

� Frozen food products

� Meat, meat products, game and fowl

� Potato products, fruit and vegetables

� Ready-made dishes and traiteur products

� Regional products and ethnic food

� Vegetarian products (new category in 2014)

For whom are dedicated the FBM?

� Product manufacturers or developers looking for new clients and partners

� Visitors of TAVOLA

� Service providers for the food sector (R&D,

marketing, logistics, sales, etc.)

Contact & information

Enterprise Europe Network in Belgium

� EEN Brussels (BECI) : Jean-Philippe Mergen – +32 (0)2 210 01 77 – jpm@beci.be

� EEN Flanders (AO) – Patrick De Molder – +32(0)50 32 50 00 - patrick.demolder@agentschapondernemen.be

� EEN Wallonia (BEP) – Charlotte Bouillet – +32 (0)81 71 71 40 - cbo@bep.be

Organizers / Financial support

Visitors’ profile at TAVOLA

European Commission Enterprise and Industry