New Orleans, which is located in the south part of America and to the Gulf of Mexico, is the biggest city of Louisiana State and the second largest port city behind New York. The area of New Orleans is about 950 sq.km. with the population of more than 500,000 people while the population of big New Orleans is about 1180,000. New Orleans is famous for its Jazzy Music and French Colonial Culture. 

On the day of 29th of June 2008, the service staffs of 21 Food come to the beautiful and so called "Southern Queen City"-New Orleans-to attend the American "IFT Food Expo 2008" which is hold by Ernest N. Morial Exhibition Center. The expo lasts from June 29th to July 1st.

The host of the expo, which is annually held in different cities of America by turns, is the Institute of Food Technologists. Nowadays it has been the biggest and the most famous pageant and significant event of food additives, where the lay out items mainly include food additives and food ingredients and it also covers the fields of food industry technology such as the food technology, the food safety and security detection, the food research and development technology transfer, etc.

This worldwide influential food additives expo attracts many professional visitors coming from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and many other countries to attend this event. According to a certain statistic, it is known that the visitors coming from America countries occupies the highest proportion while the ones coming from Europe shares the lowest proportion among the visitors.

There are more than 900 companies attending this expo, and within them there are about 70 Chinese companies which come to 8% of the whole. Most of the products manufactured or sold by these Chinese companies are within the field of food additives such as sweetener, preservative, spices, colloid, amino acid, vitamin, dehydrated vegetable and so on.

The Chinese booths are located in the main passway of the exhibition center. The dedicated build booths which are decorated by the Chinese classic red color and the white sunflower design catch many visitors special attention. We believe that such a display gives the Chinese exhibitors more confidence to welcome the buyers' coming!

At the expo, the staffs of 21Food pay a visit to the VIP members of 21Food such as Shandong Reipu Chemicals Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Silver Elephant Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing Powdery Food Co., Ltd., Linyi Dalin Foodstuffs Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and so on. What's more, we exchange our opinions on the topic of "how to make full use of the 21 Food internet to develop the internet business better", and at the same time the customers give us many valuable suggestions. We know that only by immediately listening to the voices and opinions of our customers can we stand higher and make our 21 Food more excellent! 

After the IFT Food Expo, the reporters of 21 Food make a factual survey about the three local big supermarkets to find out the price quotations of some food, mastering the first-hand price information. All of the 21 Food members may reference these following pictures and prices to understand the local consumers' consumption habits and the fact of usage condition of food additives and ingredients. 

Besides Chinese booths, the design and display of other countries' booths are also very beautiful, exquisite, modern, fashion, diversified and full of motions. It gives you an excellent enjoyment of vision! What else are you waiting for? Now, please appreciate together with us! Go!

America, acting as one of the most active elements in business field and being one of the countries which have the most enormous export amount in the world, is the market that every company hopes to enter into in many aspects, so as to the food additives and ingredients line.

Chinese companies are extremely interested in American market, and at the same time the American market is also aspire to Chinese products because of the characteristics of low-cost but good-quality, natural and healthy. Most Chinese companies are very satisfied with the effect of this expo, believing that it has reached to their expected aims, and then they express their intentions of attending next expo.