Trade Fair Overview

THAIFEX-World of Food Asia 2019 concluded its 16th edition on 1 June at IMPACT IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Center in Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok occupying 107,000 sq.m. of space.

With the vision of the future F&B industry in mind, THAIFEX 2019 marked Asia’s current largest dedicated F&B trade. The tradeshow hosted 67,136 visitors with representatives from 134 countries such as Malaysia, China, Cambodia, Philippines and U.S. This is an increase from the previous amount of visitors at THAIFEX 2018 which was 62,039.

Business and commerce remained the main focus with over 2,000 international hosted buyers who attended the show. Out of that number, 152 of them where handpicked to participate in a 2-day closed-door business matchmaking program reserved for international exhibitors to discuss trade deals. This program consisted of over 1,300 successful meetings that were arranged beforehand through an online business matching platform. This enabled top buyers from Asia to choose the international exhibitors they wanted to do business with.

THAIFEX-World of Food Asia 2019 had 6 new country groups join them this year. They were Australia (AUSVEG), Brazil, Poland, Spain, USA, and Sri Lanka. Spain provided seminars and a tapas-style networking lunch. Sri Lanka arranged a lunch buffet with local delights for sampling.