Industry Focus
Alcohol & Wine Bakery Foods Beverages Confectionery Food Packaging Food Processing Machinery Food Tech. Services Noodles & Pasta Others Tea

Products and Services Focus
pasta, confectionery, coffee,tea,beer, wine,bakery and confectionery products,wine,wine-making equipment,Equipment and technologies,etc.

General Information

- The complex of food fairs SALIMA gives a full overview of the food industry in the Central and Eastern European countries
- Key news of 2008
ORGANIC FOOD
TRENDY – show of trendy products focusing on healthy lifestyle
ASIA PAVILION
- High internationality of the exhibitors = almost one quarter (23.4 %) came from abroad
- Record-breaking number of 17 official participations – Albania, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Croatia, South Africa, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Austria, (Salima and Vinex), Greece, Singapore, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA; Albania and Singapore were represented for the very first time. Record-breaking 18 foreign countries exhibiting in the VINEX fair.
- Most of the foreign professional visitors in the history of the fair (total of 5334 = increase by + 6.6 % compared to 2006)
- Share of foreign exhibitors was 14.2 %, most visitors coming from Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Germany

Attendee Information
- Owners and operators of retail shops - independent - Owners and operators of wholesale stores - Owners, operators, purchasing agents of wholesale and retail chains - Owners and operators of catering facilities (restaurants, wineries, hotels, cafés) - Operators and employees of public catering facilities (diners, hospitals, social institutions, retirement homes, university refectories, state authorities, company catering, spa services, prison service, army, fuel stations, catering companies) - Fast food facilities (chains, independents, kiosks, buffets, bars, cultural and sports centres) etc.

Exhibitor Information
Producers, distributors, and importers
- Food including specialities, delicacies, semi-finished materials, seasoning, and spices
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (except wine), coffee, tea
- Machines and equipment for dairy industry, meat industry, processing of fruit and vegetables, production of pasta and confectionery, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic beverages
- Food industry machines and technologies
- Means of packaging and packaging technologies
- Weighing, measuring, and laboratory technology
- Cooling and freezing equipment
etc.