FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS TAVOLA 12 th MARCH 2012

TAVOLA SHOW – BASIC INFORMATION Sector : fine food and fresh products Dates : from 11 th to 13 th March 2012 (every 2 years) Place : “Kortrijk-Xpo” in Kortrijk (BE) professionals Meeting point of all professionals of the fine fresh food sector in the Benelux and Northern France. retail food sector and the large catering organizations leading position as the exclusive business forum for the retail food sector and the large catering organizations. high quality standards The organizers 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.

TAVOLA SHOW – FACTS & FIGURES m² of exhibition 395 exhibitors: 64% are Belgium-based businesses 36% are from 11 different countries (FR, NL, LU, UK, DE, IRL, IT, SP, AUS, PL, USA) Sectors:

TAVOLA SHOW – FACTS & FIGURES professional visitors (+2.3%) from 24 countries from 24 countries - largely from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and northern France. Exhibitors considered that both the number and quality of the visitors were high. Profile of trade visitors from retail and catering organizations: large retail distributors Buyers from large retail distributors (central purchasing organizations, hypermarkets, supermarkets) and medium-sized distributors Wholesalersdistributors, import/export businesses Wholesalers (for retail and for the catering industry), distributors, import/export businesses Managers from small supermarkets and retailers Managers from small supermarkets and retailers : delicatessen businesses, caterers, butchers, dairies, fishmongers, drinks and beverages retailers, greengrocers, chocolate shops, etc. catering businesses Buyers from catering businesses More info :

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS International matchmaking event B2B Date: Monday 12th March 2012 (during Tavola show) FREE PACKAGE offered to participants, includes: Signing-up for business meetings during the day on 12th March 2011 from am until 6pm Up to 12 meetings (of 30 minutes), selected and organized according to your choices Free access to the event and exhibitors Free lunch on 12th March 2012 An invitation to the international drinks event (Monday 12th March 2012, from 6pm) + OPTIONAL: for people arriving on the 11th March: dinner + room (place and price to be confirmed, negociation with hotels in progress) More info :

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS Places: room 3 in the Meeting Center of Kortrijk-Xpo (next to hall 6) + on the exhibitors’ stand

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS Partnerships/B2B matching: Technological Commercial Communication: Special Website*: Invitation to companies (e-)mailing from EEN partners to their « clients » Negociation in progress with the show organisator in order to integrate News in Tavola’s newsletter 1 push button on Tavola’s home page leading to the special website 1 option on the sign-up form for Tavola’s visitors. * still in progress, logos of partners and final information should be added. Suggestions are welcome!

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS Planning August 2011 Website conception September 2011 EEN network motivation October 2011 Finalising communication tools and logistic aspects November 2011 Launching invitation to companies Dec.2011 – Feb Signing-up of companies and follow-up of their profile and selections

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS Planning 7th March 2012 Matchmaking with the software 8th March 2012 Preparation of B2B event (documents, materials) 9th March 2012 Preparation of B2B event (logistic aspects) 12th March 2011 FOOD Meetings and International cocktail

FOOD BUSINESS MEETINGS EEN partnerships for this event: EEN Wallonia (BEP) – BE EEN Flanders (AO) – BE EEN Brussels ? Others ? Partnerships with other projects: CTE GO-KMO (Interreg IV A France-Wallonia-Flanders, gathering 14 Belgian and French economic institutions) : offers stands to companies on the « Village Gourmet Transfrontalier » with specific tariffs, services and animations (hall 4) 2Sea trade (Interreg IV A Kent-Flanders-SW Holland-Nord-Pas de Calais) : offers free stands for some UK companies (hall 4)