Dubai, UAE: Celebrating over 3 decades of success, Gulfood 2017, the world's largest food and hospitality event is undergoing a cutting edge change in lay-out, format and site visitor experience, noting a brand-new era for the marketplace leading event that initially traded in Dubai in 1987.

To raise access and trading potential, Gulfood 2017 will certainly focus on ended up food and beverages and emphasize eight of the most significant commodity trading industries with dedicated halls organised by Beverages; Milk; Fats & Oils;Health, Wellness & Free-From; Pulses, Grains & Cereals; Meat & Chicken; Power Brands and World Food.

Trixie LohMirmand, Senior Vice President, Exhibitions & Event Management, DWTC, discussed: "Not just will Gulfood's brand-new sectorised layout permit site visitors to get straight to business examining top quality and benchmarking rate in their corresponding sectors, yet it will certainly also cause deeper market insights and trend understanding through focused assessment with the right experts in one place."

The sectorisation of Gulfood comes amid expanding global sales throughout the 8 show parts. Global drink sales are forecast to attain year-on-year development of 3.9 per cent in 2016 inning accordance with online market information and research study site, Statistica.com; the worldwide dairy industry will certainly shake-off the excess milk production and sluggish demand of recent years to post a sluggish healing from 2017 onwards anticipates IMARC Group; while the global fats and oils market is predicted to get to a value of USD247.78 billion by 2021 mentions Markets & Markets.com.

" In addition to increasing travel, tourism and trade across the emirate, we anticipate the new sectorised format at Gulfood 2017 to create billions of dirhams in heritage trading throughout the year and better boost Dubai's condition as one of the world's key food trade re-export centers," added LohMirmand.

" The emirate is currently the world's biggest re-exporter of rice, coffee and tea, and Gulfood opens the door to worldwide food industry professionals to learn more regarding the recent facilities and mega project advancements - such as Dubai Wholesale City - that will certainly further change the emirate's critical potential as a re-export center for the global food industry."

As part of this significant re-alignment global buyers will certainly find more than 1,000 new-to-show food and beverage producers. With area already totally sold-out to exhibitors, February's event will span more than 1,000,000 square feet of interior exhibition space and purpose-built short-lived structures that invite a wave of new item technologies and services in-line with consumer need both regionally and internationally.

As a key example, Halal World Food will even more seal its standing as the world's largest yearly Halal food sourcing trade convention with the new sectorised format. As international visitors remain to resource a vast array of halal products for residential markets, the substantial majority of Halal-certified products at Gulfood will certainly be showcased in a dedicated Meat & Poultry area. This will enable purchasers to easily locate and appraise produce appropriate to their requirements, whilst likewise getting granular understanding into financial investment chances entering the Halal industry throughout the world.

LohMirmand continued: "Returning to Gulfood for a third successive year, Halal World Food straightens perfectly with Dubai's goal to end up being a global Islamic economic funding. As one of Gulfood's fastest-growing components, we are committed making Halal World Food obtainable and hassle-free for the several countless customers anxious to check out innovative sourcing options in this progressively lucrative sub-sector.

Gulfood 2017 will certainly feature 120 nationwide pavilions including first-time participants from as far afield as Malta, Finland and Slovakia. The program will additionally see numerous international heads of state, ministers, federal government officials and ratings of nationwide trade associations excited to ink financially rewarding bi-lateral trade agreements among tens of thousands of expected site visitors. Gulfood 2017 will organize greater than 5,000 local, regional and international companies from 120 nations displaying numerous hundreds of finished food and beverage products.

Asked to share his viewpoint on the upcoming adjustments awaiting the following version of Gulfood, the Westin's Back of Home Manager at Mina Seyahi Complex, (UAE) Andre Muenster, mentioned: "Categorising Gulfood by market verticals will concentrate the onsite journey so it is aligned with business goals. That makes it simpler to do business for both exhibitors and site visitors alike, elevating overall productivity at the program. The most essential trends now are those associating with health, so I especially like the concept of a different 'Wellness' category for 2017."

In addition to its considerably expanded sourcing opportunities, one of Gulfood's undisputed draws is the annual Emirates Culinary Guild International Hair salon Culinaire - the world's biggest single-entry chef competition. The Salon Culinaire will certainly elevate the accounts of more than 1,000 of the areas' top specialist chefs, pastry cooks, chefs and bakers for a collection of competitors evaluated by a panel of renowned experts mandated by the World Organization of Chefs Societies (WACS) to evaluate culinary events across the globe.

Somewhere else, the eighth edition of the Gulfood Innovation Honors will certainly acknowledge best-in-class excellence and innovation throughout the region's food and beverage industry. Divided right into 20 classifications, the highly-prestigious occasion is evaluated by an international panel of independent industry specialists, with winners to be introduced during the industry-renowned gala ceremony that is hosted together with the event.

Gulfood 2017 is a trade occasion open strictly to business and trade site visitors. The show is open 11am-7pm from February 26 to March 1 2017 and 11am-5pm on March 2 2017. Site visitors could pre-register at www.gulfood.com to conserve AED150 (US$ 40) on the on-site access fee of AED350 (US$ 95).