Within the month between September and October of 2008, 21Food had successfully attended several international food trade shows in succession. Among these fairs, two are held in Russia: World Food Moscow in September and Agropromesh-2008 in October. The latest one is SIAL France 2008 which we had been longing for.

From Oct. 19th to 23rd, The 23rd SIAL France-2008 was held in Villepinte, north of Paris. SIAL France is held every second year, and lasts for 5 days each time. Since its beginning in 1964, it has become the largest and one of the most famous specialized global trade shows in food area, being as the best platform of discovering and exploring the development tendency of global foods consumption and new food technologies

Sial and Anuga are the two important expos for 21Food, and we had adequate preparations for the attendance. About two months ago, we had well prepared to ship enough China Food Suppliers, CD-Roms, hand bags and other things to Paris, which plays an important role in promoting and publicizing 21Food. The visa of this expo was rather rigid, while our two staffs with rich experiences of trade shows successfully passed the visa, and arrived in France on schedule.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 140,000 visitors and 5,300 exhibitors, coming from 190 countries. While 75% are foreign exhibitors and 55% are overseas visitors. There are 7 Exhibition Halls covering area of 200,000 square meters. From hall 1 to 4 are for national representation, and Hall 5a, 5b and 6 are for professional representation. This time, China Pavilion is in Hall 4, the same Hall with Thailand and other Asia countries. Official statistics indicate that there are 375 companies in China Pavilion, and it is almost the same situation as the year 2006.

Sial and Anuga are the two eponymous food trade shows both in prestige and popularity all over the world, so except the first day as weekend, in the other days, it keeps high visitors flowrate all the time. It is filled with strong negotiation atmosphere and unpredictable infinite potential opportunities both for visitors and exhibitors, which makes people be deeply impressed. Food additives, spices and seasonings, prepared foods, milk and dairy products, egg products, meat products, salted foods, fresh meat and sausages, seafood, fresh fruits and vegetables, dried fruits and vegetables, confectionery, biscuits, breads, canned foods, frozen foods, biological products, beverages, etc these 19 kinds of foods that origin from all over the world are showed in different professional exhibition halls, and many are even worldwide-branded. Among these, the number of food additive exhibitors comes up to more than one thousand with the area of 30% among the total exhibition area. As the food additives and food ingredients exhibitors are as well as suppliers of other food products at the same time, so it creates interactive business relationships between these exhibitors.

21Food exhibition booth is located in Hall 4N142-9 of China Pavilion. We meet various food global buyers, and even some famous big buyers, say, Metro, Unilever and so on. The global buyers leave their purchasing lists for us. Through years of hardworking of 21Food, especially by the popularizing at expo, many import & export international companies are deeply impressed by our services, and we win their confidence in us as well. There, 4 companies sign contract with us immediately, and the potential customers with intention are also in large quantity. Although nowadays, the situation of import & export international trade is not optimistic because of the negative influence of global financial crisis, they have great confidence and expectation to the near future. We are also thankful for the trust of the import & export companies, and we will try much harder to service our members, catching more food business opportunities for them!

Among China Pavilion, there are about 10 VIP members of 21Food: Fuxin Zhenlong Native Produce Ltd., Ningbo Glory International Corporation, Qingdao Wanfu Group Co., Ltd., Jining Dynasty International Trade Co., Ltd., Yichun Xinye Induatrial Co., Ltd., Heilongjiang Beilin Jianyu Economic & Trade Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Baixing Food Co., Ltd., Anhui Suzhou Science Foodstuff Co., Ltd. and so on.

In the five days of expo, SIAL also holds several references, and one of the bright spot is about wine innovation with two discussion areas on Wine Grape Variety and Global Brands separately. The Wine Grape Variety discussion area shows 10 varieties of wine grapes, and it is mainly to discuss the characteristics of each variety and the development potential in global main markets. The Global Brands discussion area is about the innovative features, sales performance, values, and the promoting effects towards global markets of more than 30 successful global brands of wine.

International pavilions from all over the world:

Egypt Pavilion


Japan Pavilion


Turkey Pavilion


Chile Pavilion


SIAL France 2008 has been closed, and 21Food has got perfect achievements with its excellent performance. No matter on the aspect of finding for the matched buying and selling information, or on the aspect of signing contracts with new members, our attendance and hardworking in SIAL France is worthwhile.