A new edition of Sial Paris is coming

For all companies belonging to the food industry this is a precious meeting point that needs to be visited: Sial Paris 2018. In the heart of Europe, this trade show will discover you products from all over the world, the latest culinary trends, attend culinary demonstrations … On 21-25 October 2018, SIAL Paris will be the largest international marketplace for foodservice professionals seeking inspiration, and for all those companies trying to export their products to the French market.

What can you expect from Sial Paris 2018

In 2018, SIAL Paris will be a bigger source of inspiration than ever for the world’s food industry.

7,020 companies from more than 109 countries will be presenting their products to retail and foodservice professionals.

– All manner of food products, from ingredients through equipment to end products, will be on show, across 21 exhibition sectors.

– Looking for ideas? SIAL Innovation will once again be casting the spotlight on a host of innovative food products.

– Still looking for more? Come and attend the SIAL TV and In-Food Centre conferences, and discover the studies dedicated to retail and consumer trends of the World Tour.

Some figures about Sial Paris

Manufacturers:

-7,020 exhibitors, suppliers to the agri-food industry

-85% international exhibitors – 109 countries represented

21 exhibition sectors and food channels

-France is the most represented country

-Top 6 sectors: meat, dairy products, savoury grocery, frozen foods, sweet grocery, beverages

-80% of exhibitors were satisfied with their event and 85% would recommend SIAL*

-60% exhibitors declare to realize more than 6 months of additional turnover.

Distributors and commerce:

-155,700 visitors

-70% international visitors – 194 countries represented

-Some 91% of visitors were satisfied with their visit to the show

-93% were impressed with the variety of products on display at SIAL

Major brands visit to find inspiration and products: Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Elior, Sodexo, Consumer Goods Forum, Michelin star Chefs…

Barcelona Export has a deep knowledge of this trade show and can help you to market your products In France.

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Vinisud and Vinovision 2019, two major French wine shows

Vinisud will enter the 15th round: the next edition of the trade show of Mediterranean wines will take place from February 11th to 13th 2019 in the Parc des Expositions in Paris Nord Villepinte. For the first time, it will be held together with the Vinovision and therefore two large French wine shows will be combined.

Vinisud 2019 – the world of Mediterranean wines

Being ranked among the top 5 trade events for buyers, Vinisud brings together many Mediterranean wine producers as well as trade buyers from all over the continent. 1.500 exhibitors from countries like Spain, Italy, Portugal, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Macedonia and France present their wines and offer them to be tasted. About 30.000 trade visitors join the fair to make use of this B2B event. Unlike the last years, the next edition of Vinisud will not be held in Montpellier: In 2019, the Parc des Expositions in Paris Nord Villepinte will open its doors to welcome visitors from all around the world. Vinisud will continue to be held in Montpellier in even years.

Vinovision – the international cool climate wine exhibition

French cool climate wines are produced in the North of France and include not only red, rosé and white wines but also the majority of French sparkling wines, like the world famous Champagne. The fair is the perfect complement to Vinisud and takes place in Paris in odd-numbered years.

France and the wine industry

Wine consumption patterns: Due to the increase in the number of people who only casually consume wine as well as the one of non-consumers, the general amount of wine consumption in France is decreasing. Nevertheless, wine is still seen as the most popular alcoholic beverage when based on sales value. Furthermore, following tab and bottled water, wine is the most frequently found beverage at the dinner table.

However, not for nothing France is known for its wine: France is not only one of the biggest producers of wine regarding hectoliters, but also counts to the top 3 countries of exporting wine (together with Spain and Italy). These three nations make up for more than half of the world’s wine exports in terms of value of sales as well as in terms of volume. Even though France’s sales volume might be smaller than the one of its neighbors, its sales value is remarkably higher, which displays the predominance of premium wines in France.

The French “Wine week”

The month of February is said to be the most favorable period for purchasing in the wine calendar. Besides Vinisud and Vinovision, also the WWM Global business meetings will be held at the beginning of February: From February 7th to 10th 2019, they will be hosted at the 5-star Hôtel du Collectionneur in Paris. Therefore, a period of 7-days will be dedicated to wines thanks to the three successive events (WWM Global business meetings, Vinisud and Vinovision).

Barcelona Export – expert in the wine industry

Barcelona Export has already gained plenty of experience in accompanying companies of the viniculture sector during their internationalization process. During Vinisud 2018, we have supported our customer Bouquet d’Alella at the exhibition and could establish more than 50 contacts from various countries worldwide. Also in 2019’s edition, it would be our pleasure to help wine growers to promote their business on the international level.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to make use of our experiences. In the case you want to participate at the exhibition, you can register at ICEX.

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The exportation of the decoration sector to France

MAISON&OBJET  is the international fair in Paris, a benchmark in the world of decoration: interior design, architecture and new world trends. It count on its traditional fair (2 annual editions: January and September) and a digital platform (MOM).

Where all the main players in the sector meet: interior designers, decorators, wholesalers, distributors, decoration shops and the leading brands presenting their new trends.

logo mom, Paris 2018 

Maison et Objet offers to all the companies in the world of decoration a solution to their needs to promote their products internationally and strengthen the brand: enjoy their online trade fair MOM for 12 months at a reduced monthly cost.

  

What is MOM?

The Maison et Objet fair has a linked platform to extend the exhibiting effect offered by its two annual events and which serves to promote articles and decoration brands.

Their slogan is: We continue the MAISON&OBJET experience online!

What exactly MAISON&OBJET does it offer?

More time. The duration of the whole year, visualization of decorative products and updated designs, giving access to an incomparable database.

-From any point of view, extend the M&O salon experience.  It permed visualization of the decoration products as they are presented on the stands.

MOM increases the exchanges and facilitates the requests for contacts, information and appointments on the show. It also makes it easy to request quotations and orders.

An inexhaustible source of inspiration. The selection of experts sheds light on objects that make up the unanimity of yes in the M&O community.

Screen MOM

In the online MOM trade fair space you will find over 5,000 brands, a wide range of products with detailed visualization of each product and the possibility of saving the visited articles as favorites only by creating a free account.

What more can MOM offer?

– High international contacts quality

– 12 months of product and collection visibility

– 2 million visitors of which 52% are regular prescribers

– 48% of visits are from distributors

– An average of 8 minutes intended for navigation on the website

– Each visitor navigates on 7 pages on average

We have accompanied many clients in the traditional and virtual trade fairs and we highly recommend their participation. If you are interested, feel free to contact us.

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Case of success: The internationalization of GMS Sistemas

GMS Sistemas: The company

GMS Sistemas is a Catalan company devoted to the making of feeding and positioning systems, such as vibrating feeders or robotic arms, for small pieces. It is also part of the corporate group PMZ Comatrans. At this point, they have accumulated experience and Know-how in the course of 25 years. GMS targets mainly the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and, not to mention, packaging sector.

The offered solutions

– Particularly, the SmartFeeder (a robotic arm for a flexible solution)
– Vibrating feeder for caps, valves, dosing pumps, car wheels,…
– Mechanic feeder for coffee capsules, Alimentador mecánica para cápsulas de café, syringes
– Centrifugal feeder for plastic crown caps
– Slat elevator for cosmetic products, screws, spherical plain bearings,
– Positioners for bottles, pharmaceutical tubes and containers

El equipo de GMS

Participation at Hispack as international stepping stone

Our client GMS Sistemas started working with us in October 2017. Besides benefitting of our service for prospecting for France, they informed us about their participation at Hispack 2018 in the course of the year. They not only asked us for an agenda with international meetings but also for our accompaniment during the fair. Therefore, we organized their commercial documentations and created the contact mails and invitations for the fair. Hence we picked 8 different countries for the contact search, which were: UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. These contacts included distributors, integrators, manufacturers for special machinery. Furthermore, we also looked for final clients of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and packaging industry as well as coffee capsules.

GMS Sistemas - Hispack Barcelona

With reference to the topic “Natural Evolution”, the corporate group PMZ presented itself at the fair Hispack with a completely renewed image, showing the whole range of qualitative solutions for the fields of automation and positioning of pieces.

Stand Hispack Barcelona 2018

If you would like to find out more about the products of GMS Sistemas and PMZ Comatrans, feel free to watch this interview. It  was filmed for the magazine Infopack with Xavier Sanchez, the group’s director, during the fair Hispack.

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Case of success: La Cuina de la Iaia and its gourmet croquettes

La Cuina de la Iaia: the company

La Cuina de la Iaia is a Catalan company dedicated to the making and commercialization of gourmet croquettes for the most demanding palates. In short, a young family-run company, whose manager is a curious and innovative chef, who constantly develops new flavours with which he keeps seducing his customers. Without doubt recipes, that are different and surprising and that leave no one indifferent.

Gourmet croquettes: The preparation process

La Cuina de la Iaia develops handmade gourmet croquettes for which it selects the best ingredients and raw materials: products with outstanding quality of which some have designation of origin (DO). In addition, the cooker works at the necessary pace to preserve the original taste of the gourmet croquettes. Furthermore, its batter is a special batter that gives the gourmet croquettes a crunchy touch, even hours after cooking. The croquettes are frozen after processing in order to preserve their taste and aromas intact, while at the same time allowing for an optimal consumption date of 12 months. The percentages of the main ingredients are very high so that they provide an intense and characteristic flavour.

A this time, La Cuina de la Iaia offers its croquettes for the hotel and catering industry (HORECA) in three formats:

– normal (25gr)

– croquetón

– mini o còctel.

These classic tapas are served in the best Spanish hotels, restaurants and caterings.

The product range

At the present time, the flavours offered to the customers are:

– Roasted chicken
– Ham
– Spider crab
– Cod
– Cod, orange and sesame
– Mushrooms with goat cheese
– Cabrales with caramelised onion
– Pepper with olives
– Spinach with pine nuts and raisins
– Vegan: onion and carrot
– Pizza
– Chocolate with Orange
– Sobrasada
– Foie gras and mushrooms
– Black pudding and mushrooms
– Emmental and bacon
– Prawns
– Gorgonzola and walnuts
– Chicken curry

The fair Alimentaria as international stepping Stone

Our client La Cuina de la Iaia started working with us a couple of years ago. Above all, the challenge of the project comes from the fact that it is a frozen product that is logistically difficult and expensive. During this year, they informed us of their participation in Alimentaria 2018 and asked us for an agenda of international meetings, as well as the accompaniment at the fair.

Barcelona Export was in charge of preparing an agenda of scheduled meetings at the stand during the days of the fair, as well as managing the agendas of contacts from Alimentaria’s matchmaking. Hence, we organised the commercial documentation and wrote the contact e-mails and invitations to the fair.

The five countries we chose for our search of importers/ distributors of frozen products were: Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. By using the matchmaking of the exhibition Alimentaria, we also contacted importers from many more countries.

As a result, La Cuina de la Iaia came to the fair Alimentaria with an agenda of 31 scheduled meetings in the course of the 4 days of the exhibition.

La Cuina de la Iaia's Gourmet croquettes

Results of the international commercial prospection

All in all, we are very pleased to be able to confirm the great success of La Cuina de la Iaia’s participation at Alimentaria 2018. During the event, more than 3,300 croquettes were cooked and tasted by the visitors who came to the stand. Its delicious croquettes, together with the prospecting efforts of Barcelona Export, resulted in a fair that ended up bringing 161 new contacts to our client.

So we accompanied our client at the stand to attend the meetings with potential clients from countries as diverse as: Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Panama, USA, El Salvador, Guatemala, UK and Libya.

After the fair, we are writing the e-mails to thank for visiting our stand at Alimentaria and following up on your visit. In this situation, we have created a large database of potential importers and distributors of the 4th and 5th range of the HORECA channel, with whom they can begin to close commercial distribution agreements.

Thank you for this kind and tasty relationship! Your success is assured.

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Case of success: Singular Spirits, artisanal spirits

Singular Spirits: the company

Singular Spirits is a company from Madrid dedication to themaking and commercialisation of artisanal spirits of high quality, more precisely of Gins and Vodkas. A young company that has managed to develop new formulations, that are different and refreshing. It is committed to quality during the distillation and a refined marketing. Moreover, it focuses on a new consummation concept based on high quality products that bring new experiences to the consumers.

Handcrafted spirits of high quality: the manufacturing process

As has been noted, Singular Spirits produces Gin and Vodka of high quality with local Spanish ingredients. The production is artisanal, in small numbered batches with the aim to always achieve the most delicate and the purest alcohol.

Characteristics of Singular Spirits’ distillates in brief:

100% natural ingredients: without chemicals, colourings, or added sugars

Local product: with unique recipes and local ingredients

Traditional distillation: in small batches that allow to remain quality, purity and creativity.

Micro-distillation: elaboration and development in independent micro distilleries of the latest generation. Copper stills.

The product range

At this point, Singular Spirits’ product range is composed of:

1… Iradier y Bulfi Dry Gin: London Dry Gin, 100% natural, 42º, 7 botanicals. exclusive distillation of 300l, numbered bottles.

2… Iradier y Bufi Sipping Vodka: 100% natural, greatest purity, low distillations in copper. direct fermentation in the distillery. without additives. exclusive distillation of 300l. numbered bottles.

3… Martín Sessé Madrid Dry Gin: London Dry Gin, 100% natural, 42º. 14 natural and native botanicals, distillations of 600l. numbered bottles. slow distillation in copper. free of chemicals and sweeteners.

4… R.I.P Unfiltered Vodka: alcohol from the Tempranillo grape and grain, 4 distillations, 40º, distillations of 150l. numbered bottles. slow distillation in copper. free of chemicals and sweeteners.

Original and refined marketing

The whole product range has a story behind each of the brands in order to turn every tasting into a different and original experience. To every brand corresponds a name that conceals an adventurous and romantic story that helps us to enjoy our cocktails.

With a distinct and vintage look, Singular Spirits’ bottles remind us of those old pharmaceutical bottles in which the formulations were brewed.  They also carry us to the Wild West. And this is the inspiration for the whole corporate and communication image.

Participation at Alimentaria as international stepping stone

Soon after deciding to participate at the Alimentaria 2018, our client Singular Spirits  came to us, seeing need to make their presence profitable with their own stand design.

Barcelona Export was in charge of preparing an agenda with appointments for meetings at the stand during the days of the fair, as well as of managing the contact agendas coming from Alimentaria’s matchmaking. Hence, we organized their commercial documentation and we composed the contact mails and invitations to the fair.

Six different countries were chosen for the search for importers/ distributors of spirits and liquids, such as: UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Portugal and Italy. By seizing the Matchmaking of the exhibition, we also contacted importers / distributors of alcoholic beverages in the USA, Japan and Latin America.

Singular Spirits went to the trade show Alimentaria with 25 agreed contacts spread during the 4 days of the fair.

Barcelona Export - Singular Spirits Alimentaria 2018

Results of the international commercial prospection

After all, it is our pleasure to declare that the participation of Singular Spirits at the Alimentaria was as impressive as their products themselves. Their stand design and their products of great attractiveness together with Barcelona Export’s prospection efforts resulted in an event that ended up bringing 124 new contacts to our client.  The majority passed by our stand and took the opportunity to taste their Gins and Vodkas. Others requested information via mail and telephone, since they could not come to Barcelona.

We accompanied our client at the stand during the days of the exhibition in order to assist them with different languages and ways of negotiating with the different countries. People from various countries dropped by to visit: Spain, Catalonia, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italia, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Portugal, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, UK, Taiwan, USA, Sweden, Singapore, Romania, Russia, Tunisia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Switzerland and Qatar.

After the fair we took care of writing the mails thanking for the visit at the stand at Alimentaria. Furthermore, we were in charge of the follow up. Additionally, we could provide an extensive data base with possible importers and distributors of international liquors and distillates. They can now start to close commercial deals for distribution.

We wish Singular Spirits a unique and successful internationalization!

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We accompanied 4 of our clients to Alimentaria 2018

During the days of the 16th to 19th April, the next edition of the biannual international fair of the agri-food sector takes place: Alimentaria 2018. This year’s edition merges with another well-known exhibition, the Hostelco, an exhibition for hotelier equipment.

Some interesting facts

This major trade show platform, Alimentaria 2018, will bring together 4.500 companies, 150.000 experts (27% of whom will be international, coming from more than 70 different countries), it will occupy 100.000m2 and attract more than 1.400 key buyers from 150 countries.

300 innovations will be presented, 120 conferences will be held, 35 chefs with 45 Michelin stars will gather (at Hostelco) and 150 gastronomic activities can be enjoyed.

Alimentaria 2018

Alimentaria 2018 will cover 6 halls of the fairground Gran Vía, bringing together food, drink and food service companies. In order to facilitate the visit of the exhibition, the fair organises its exhibition in 6 sector-specific events:

Food Service

Intervin: wine industry. With Jancis Robinson, Nick Lander or Eric Asimov being present.

Intercarn: meat industry

Restaurama

Expoconser: canned and semi-preserved food industry

Interlac: offering dairy products and derivates

Multiple Foods: with consumer products

Premium: reserved for haute cuisine and oenology

Hostelco 2018

It will take place in hall 8, sharing the space with Restaurama. Innovations concerning products, technologies and solutions for equipment and machinery for the hospitality industry will be introduced.

The presented subsectors are:

– Kitchenware, tableware, utensils and packaging

– Equipment and machinery technologies for the hotel and catering industry

– Technology, entertainment and software

– Textiles, clothing and uniforms

– Interior design, decoration, lighting and furniture

– Cleaning and laundry

– Vending

– Spa, wellness and accessories

– Bakery, ice-cream and pastry shop

The Hostelco Experience and the Alimentaria Experience

35 chefs with more than 45 Michelin stars will come together. Among these we can highlight:

– Andoni Luis Aduriz (Mugaritz, Guipúscoa)

– Fina Puigdevall (Les Cols, Girona)

– Nando Jubany (Can Jubany)

– Paco Roncero (La Terraza del Casino, Madrid)

– Mario Sandoval (Coque, Madrid)

The internationalization of exhibiting companies

One of the priorities of this year´s edition is to promote the internationalization of the exhibiting companies and the sector as a whole.

In this sense, Alimentaria 2018 has clearly opted for a strong Host Buyers program of quality and high import capacity. All of this is reinforced by a great networking tool such as the Matchmaking application, both through the web and through the mobile phone, which facilitates the relationship between buyers and exhibitors.

Barcelona Export’s role

For this edition of Alimentaria 2018, Barcelona Export has organised agendas for meetings with buyers from more the 15 different countries for its 3 clients:

– Handmade Gourmet Croquettes

– Gourmet Vegetable Chips

– Artisanal distillery of Vodka and Gin

We have managed to arrange more than 70 meetings that will take place in the course of the 4 days of the exhibition.

In addition to the pre-fair preparations, we will accompany our clients at their stand in order to help them at the translation and negotiation on international level.

To complete our service of accompaniment to fairs we will follow up on each of the contacts made during the event, and previously, to close as many commercial collaboration agreements as possible.

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Vinisud 2018, the French trade-show of the Mediterranean wines

As each year, Vinisud, the trade-show of the Mediterranean wines took place in Montpellier. The 18,19 and 20 of February 2018 the producers of Mediterranean wines welcomed the most important buyers from the 5 continents, during a trade-show which is considered as one of the most important competition in the world of wine.

Some figures about Vinisud

This edition 2018, the last to take place in Montpellier gathered 1500 exhibitors from various Mediterranean countries (France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Malta, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Macedonia …) to give the world some 26 000 references of  still wines, sparkling wines, pearled wines, cavas and champagnes. The next edition of the Vinisud trade-show, in 2019 will take place in Paris.

 Tendències VInisud 2018

 

The world trend in wines

The general trend of the trade-show was the one of the responsible and durable techniques. And that is the reason why the presence of organic wines is increasingly strong. That is also why the fermentation processes without chemical ingredients are growing. Thus, buyers who were looking for wines without added sugar, without wine alcohol, with little or no barrel, with little batonnage to not tire the wines, balanced, fresh and lights were very numerous. The samples of rosés from Provence were very extensive as well as the Italian Prosecco, which competes directly with our cava and that has greatly increases its sales lately. We have also been able to confirm the good reputation of the Spanish wines and more specifically the Catalans wines, very often more valued for being lighter and easier to drink in new markets with a small culture of wine.

The presence of Barcelona Export

We attended the Vinisud Trade-show in the name of our client Bouquet d’Alella, a producer DO Alella of certificated organic wines which with 14 hectares of cultivated vineyards has high quality wines, in the spirit of the new world trends : low graduation wines, balanced, fresh, light, without additives, with very little barrel.

Barcelona Export has been responsible for contracting the space, decorating the stand, creating a contact agenda to organize meetings with buyers from various countries such as Finland, Norway,  Sweden, France, Poland, the USA, the UK and Costa Rica.

We had also accompanied our client during all the days of the trade-show in order to help with the translations and the international negotiations. To finish our service we managed the sending of the emails of thanks after the trade-show and the relevant following of each of the contact generated by the event.

We wish Bouquet d’Alella a lot of success in the international markets and we are convinced that it will arrive very soon.

           Vinisud meeting            Bouquet dalella Pau

Barcelona Export visits the Girona Gastronomical Forum 2017

The Girona Gastronomical Forum closes its door with a new public success and the big satisfaction of the participating companies.

More than 25 000 people visited the exhibition during the three days of this food trade fair. Moreover, it has been announced that the next edition of the Gerona Gastronomic Forum will be held on November 18, 19 and 20 of 2018.

What does the Girona Gastronomical Forum offer?

A forum full of people, companies and activities to discover. Barcelona Export visited the event to find food companies interested in exporting their products and was able to confirm the high gastronomic quality of our region. Participation has increased by more than 30% since the 2015 edition, with more than 25,000 visitors.

What was its outcome?

We appreciated the satisfaction of the exhibitors, like the former and loyal participants who are exhibiting at the Forum year after year, as well as newcomers who for the first time wanted to participate on the event, which has been considered as a great form of promotional platform.

International Opportunities of the Forum

Companies have also been able to do business and conclude many commercial transactions, especially at the international level, thanks to the reverse missions in which buyers from the Nordic countries were interested in the products present at the Forum.

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Von Arend also wanted to point out that the fair is the largest event where all sectors of the catering and hospitality industry are represented. In total, more than 250 companies. Additionally, they pointed out that the exhibition space has been very dynamic at all times, since during the three days the stands haven’t stopped to offer activities. Especially, sessions such as those given by Joan Roca, Andoni Luis Adúriz and Paco Pérez, in the Auditori, recorded nearly a thousand people each.

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The visit to Sial Paris 2016: great success of the exporting group of the Maresme

The time has come for the Exporting Group of Maresme to accompany ten companies from the Food Industry to the SIAL PARIS 2016 Global Food Marketplace.

Satisfaction was met: it was a huge success for the products introduced and new relationships were born, which will hopefully lead to new business opportunities.

Our mission

At Barcelona Export, we had the pleasure in attending the fair, supporting the companies of this exporting group in their negotiations and translations providing them with a commercial and attractive speech for the French buyers.

The meetings

Each one of the companies of this exporting group attended this fair with contacts already set by Barcelona Export, so that they could make the most of their visit, and speed up the process of acquiring new business possibilities.

New business opportunities

Once all the interviews were over, we seized the opportunity of visiting the Fair to look directly for new business opportunities on the fair itself, and introduce the products to stands with the most interesting profile of making new business.

We also could identify the trends of the market and what was the perception that French companies had about Catalan products. In fact we were able to analyze the competition and the adequacy between the packaging of our clients and the market’s expectations.

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