Mumbai to host World Tea and Coffee Expo in October
Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:00
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Over 100 exhibitors from around the world are likely to attend the 3rd World Tea and Coffee Expo 2015, India’s only International trade show dedicated to the tea and coffee sectors, to be held in Mumbai, India.
The event will provide the perfect environment for the hot beverage industry to meet face-to-face and develop business opportunities.
The expo is to be held from October 1 to 3, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, and shall cater to a prospective visitor base of over 6000 buyers from across India and abroad – up from the visitor count of 4100 during the second edition held in September 2014, said a company statement.
The event will display innovative products, machineries, accessories, technologies, vending machines and certifications from the hot beverage sector.
Also additional activities planned at the expo include: B2B match-making, workshops and championships, a high level 2-day conference by industry leaders, academicians and policy makers, export/import guidance kiosks, Knowledge zone, etc.
Priti M Kapadia, director of Sentinel Exhibitions Asia, the organiser of the show, said: “Mumbai is a city where the best converge for doing business. Mumbai attracts the top players from the all over India as wells as from aboard which results in high value deals and alliances.”
“The 2015 edition of this unique trade fair will also see delegations from Iran, Nepal, Dubai, and Russia at the event,” she added.
The success of the 2nd World Tea and Coffee Expo 2014, in September 2014, has established this expo as the official Industry show with just two editions under its belt. This is India’s only International Trade Show dedicated to tea and coffee and is supported by Ministry of Commerce through Tea Board of India and leading associations and chambers from across the world have pledged their support to this important industry initiative.
The expo offers huge potential for appointing distributors, bulk orders, joint ventures, franchising, networking, knowledge-sharing, meeting government officials, marketing alliances, and overall branding.
World Tea and Coffee Expo has become the platform for the launch of new and exotic tea and coffee products. For a visitor, workshops and seminars are the other important part of the event, which will help them to understand the depth of this industry, gain knowledge, and understand benefits and also to taste the products on the spot.
Skill development shall be the main theme of the workshops which will be conducted by experts in the field. Adds Kapadia, “For the International Tea and Coffee conference, we are in touch with a number of international speakers and some of them have already confirmed.”
The global market for RTD (Ready-to-Drink) Tea and Coffee is expected to reach $125 billion by 2017 with an annual growth rate of 11 per cent. The Asia-Pacific region is the largest market and also showing maximum growth. To capitalise on the growth trend in the RTD tea and coffee, companies are investing heavily on modernisation of machineries, quality up-gradation and product diversification as also branding, innovations and market expansion.
