Welsh foods and drinks producers will journey to Dubai later this month to attend Gulfood, one of many world’s largest foods and drinks commerce exhibitions that reaches out to key nations throughout the Center East and North Africa (MENA) area.
Gulfood will happen between 20-24 February on the Dubai World Commerce Centre, and can characteristic worldwide manufacturers displaying their newest foods and drinks services and products.
The exhibition attracts greater than 5000 firms from greater than 120 nations unveiling new enterprise alternatives, offering options to new, and evolving international challenges. It additionally provides exhibitors an opportunity to fulfill with suppliers, pattern new meals, and study concerning the newest culinary developments.
Supported by the Welsh Authorities, 14 Welsh foods and drinks firms, will attend Gulfood 2023 to draw extra international enterprise, underneath the Cymru/Wales banner.
Wales has a protracted affiliation with Gulfood, with many success tales bringing an array of Welsh produce to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area.
Ieuan Edwards founding father of Edwards the Welsh Butcher with new packaging highlighting the long-lasting Conwy Citadel
The Welsh Authorities’s Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, Lesley Griffiths stated:
“Welsh foods and drinks are up there with the perfect on this planet and occasions corresponding to this present an ideal alternative for our companies to showcase their prime quality, made-in-Wales merchandise.
“Securing new export markets, constructing working relationships and elevating our worldwide profile is important to the trade and I’m happy the Welsh Authorities is supporting firms to do that.”
The Welsh companies exhibiting embody Rachel’s Dairy, Dairy Companions, Daioni Natural, Hilltop Honey, Ty Nant, Buckley Meals Ltd, The Lobster Pot, Aforza Ltd, Ocean Bay Seafoods Ltd, Outdated Coach Home Distillery, Hybu Cig Cymru, Edwards of Conwy, Calon Wen Natural Dairy and Meals Innovation Wales.
Pembrokeshire based mostly firm Daioni Natural will likely be exhibiting their deliciously creamy vary of 1 litre entire, semi and skimmed milk, in addition to their flavoured milk vary. They will even be showcasing particulars of their new espresso vary that will likely be launched in April, which incorporates flavours Caffe Latte, Salted Caramel Latte and Macchiato Latte.
Daioni’s Industrial Director, Adam Fitzpatrick stated,
“I’ll personally be attending the present with the expectation of assembly retail homeowners, consumers, and distributors throughout the Gulf areas to supply options to their dairy, natural and well being necessities as we glance to proceed our international digit class main development drive into the Gulf area.”
North Wales’s butchers, Edwards, will likely be attending and utilizing Gulfood as a platform to advertise their lately modified model identify. It’s the first time the corporate have attended Gulfood and really feel able to develop into new export markets as Jeremy Stoker, UK and Worldwide Gross sales Improvement Supervisor stated,
“The purpose of attending Gulfood is to create consciousness of Edwards, The Welsh Butcher. Our historical past as a excessive avenue butcher who has grown to provide main retail, on-line and foodservice clients within the UK by producing premium sausages, burgers, meat balls and bacon with excessive requirements (together with Crimson Tractor and Welsh PGI beef accreditation) in a “AA” BRC manufacturing facility.
“We’d like to fulfill retailers, retail and foodservice distributors and meat wholesalers within the UAE who’re in a position to promote our present vary of sausages, burgers, meatballs and bacon in addition to advise on demand and growing a customized vary of Edwards merchandise to promote throughout the GCC area.”
Buckley Meals Ltd, are attending Gulfood as a part of the export go to and are hoping to discover a appropriate buying and selling associate within the area.
Richard Jones, Export Retail Supervisor at Buckley Meals stated,
“We’re attending Gulfood this 12 months as a part of the export go to as we observed there are a number of established distributors on the present, so we will likely be visiting them to try to supply an acceptable buying and selling associate for 2023 and past.
“We will even be assembly clients visiting the present from different nations and networking with them and their colleagues.”
Gulfood, Dubai is the beginning of many focused commerce exhibits and occasions that Welsh foods and drinks producers will likely be attending this 12 months with the help of the Welsh Authorities, by way of the Meals and Drink Commerce Occasions Programme. Future deliberate commerce improvement visits embody Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Foodex in Tokyo. As well as, to commerce exhibitions in France and the ProWein occasion in Dusseldorf.
The date has additionally been introduced for Wales’ main worldwide foods and drinks commerce occasion – BlasCymru/TasteWales 2023. The 2-day occasion organised by the Welsh Authorities will happen on the 25 and 26 October on the Worldwide Conference Centre (ICC Wales), on the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. The occasion will carry collectively foods and drinks producers with nationwide and worldwide consumers and meals trade professionals.
