MEAT ATTRACTION presents its second edition to around 30 countries that are interested in the Spanish meat offering

4 May 2018

This morning the Manager of MEAT ATTRACTION, Carlos González García de la Barga, and Alberto Jiménez, President of the Organizing Committee and of the National Association of Meat Industries of Spain, ANICE, per its initials in Spanish –co-organizer of the fair-, presented the second edition of the Meat Sector Fair to a group of representatives from nearly thirty countries. The Fair will be held between the 18th and 20th of September 2018, in Hall 4 at Feria de Madrid.

The sales and agricultural representatives from the embassies of countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Finland, France, Iran, Qatar, Malaysia, Morocco, Moldavia, Panama, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Russia, Senegal, Uruguay and Vietnam attended the presentation. All had expressed interest in learning about the Fair's features and business orientation, the Spanish meat industry's exportable meat offering, and the commercial possibilities and advantages offered by  MEAT ATTRACTION to the professional visitors and buyers of their respective countries.

The meeting provided all of the representatives of these countries with a sneak peek at the details and main new developments of the next edition of MEAT ATTRACTION, which will once again become a hub for the meat industry (slaughterhouses, cutting plants, processing industries, companies specialized in storage, transport and commercialization) and the ancillary industry (suppliers to the industry and meat distribution). 

The most significant new developments of this second edition include the "Meat Attraction Buyers Meetings" programme -B2B meetings with international buyers from priority markets with the support of ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones through its network of commercial offices all over the world, the reinforcement of the buyers programme, through which IFEMA will invite a selection of international buyers at the behest of the exhibitors themselves, based on the markets that they find most interesting, and aconference on the future of meat and processed meat distribution, as well as an area for exhibitors to showcase their innovation initiatives, novelties and product trends.

MEAT ATTRACTION is the first monographic professional Fair specialized in the meat sector to be held in Spain. It is oriented to guarantee profitability with a return on a modest investment, multiplying business opportunities for all value chain actors.

Communication and Press Management of IFEMA

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