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BARCELONA, Spain, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The main commerce truthful platform for the meals, beverage, foodservice and hospitality gear trade closes in the present day with sturdy attendance and enterprise outcomes, in an version marked by its highest-ever variety of worldwide exhibitors and vital participation of nationwide and worldwide consumers. The occasion, which celebrated Alimentaria’s fiftieth anniversary, additionally stood out for the main function of the Horeca sector and the promotion of product improvements and options for the trade.
Alimentaria+Hostelco efficiently closes its most worldwide version
In the course of the 4 days of the present, practically 109.600 professionals visited the occasion, 25% of them worldwide, from 120 international locations, primarily from USA, Europa and Latin America. Consumers and commerce guests have been attracted by the big selection of choices offered by greater than 3,300 exhibiting firms, 1,200 of them from over 70 international locations, in an occasion that promoted the internationalisation, enterprise alternatives and competitiveness of strategic sectors of the Spanish economic system.
On this sense, taking part worldwide firms accounted for 30% greater than the earlier version, in 2024, with a 40% improve in exhibition house allotted to worldwide presence. Europe, with Poland as a Nation of Honour, along with Latin America and North America, concentrated a big a part of this worldwide illustration.
As well as, in the course of the 4 days of the occasion, greater than 14,500 enterprise conferences have been held between taking part firms and over 2,700 consumers and importers from 120 international locations invited by the present.
Promotion of the Horeca channel and innovation
Probably the most profitable areas of this version was the one devoted to the Horeca channel, which, in step with the occasion’s strategic dedication to meals service and hospitality, grew this yr by 40% bringing collectively greater than 600 firms within the sector.
On this sense, new merchandise and developments have been as soon as once more on the coronary heart of the occasion. The present grew to become a showcase for pioneering proposals, notably providing more healthy options, with much less environmental influence, in addition to synthetic intelligence functions geared toward more and more personalised vitamin.
On account of its collaboration with the Fundació Banc dels Aliments, Alimentaria + Hostelco, 100 volunteers from the NGO will gather greater than 20,000 kg of meals and drinks donated by the exhibiting firms.
The subsequent version of Alimentaria+Hostelco will happen from 20 to 23 March 2028 at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Through venue.
