IPLS - the only Private Label Show in Russia and CIS!

The International Private Label Show (IPLS) will open 22–23 March 2016 at Crocus Expo, Moscow.

The show is aimed at connecting private label suppliers and contract manufacturers from all over the world with clients from Russia & CIS to maximise, in one place, the opportunities of this dynamic market.It’s a perfect place to meet representatives of domestic and international retail chains, hyper- and supermarkets, convenience stores and distributors to establish or strengthen partnerships and get a product on store shelves. For international distributors and brand-owners, IPLS is an excellent business platform to find partners to launch local production and minimize transportation and customs costs, thus getting closer to the target market.

EXHIBITORS: GLOBAL PL MANUFACTURERS FROM 20 COUNTRIES

IPLS is a truly international event: 50% of exhibitors come from Russia, the other 50% are international PL suppliers or family-owned businesses with manufacturing facilities in Italy, France, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain, UK, Poland, Austria, Greece, Belgium, Czech Republic,Lithuania, Israel, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, UAE, India, Sri-Lanka, China, Taiwan, etc. Find all exhibiting companies in the IPLS Online Catalogue.

EXHIBITION SECTORS INCLUDE FOOD AND NON-FOOD PRODUCTS:

FOOD: Bakery and confectionery, groceries, canned food and ready meals, frozen food, sauces and condiments, oils and fat products, dairy food, snacks, dried fruit and nuts, infant food, alcoholic and soft beverages, etc.

NONFOOD: household cleaning and detergents, cosmetics and perfumery, personal hygiene, paper products, packing solutions, medical products, household appliances, gardening, sport and leisure goods, petfood and accessories, car care, shoe care, etc.

VISITORS: RETAIL AND WHOLESALE TRADE OPERATORS

IPLS brings together an audience of professionals in charge of private label development, as well as a choice of suppliers. Therefore, IPLS can guarantee that you make the necessary contacts and only negotiate private label contracts. Exhibitors regularly see 2,500 visitors comprised of 30% manufacturers looking for brand owners; 26% international and domestic retail chains operating in Russia or CIS; 18% wholesalers, importers and distributors; 3% e-commerce retailers; 2% pharmacies; and 1% HoReCa chains.

Leading trade operators visit the show, among which are Auchan, X5 Retail Group, Metro Cash & Carry, SPAR, Magnolia, Lenta, Bahetle, Sangi Style, NTS, 7 days, GREEN, O’key, Edelweiss (grocery retail chains), Azbuka Vkusa, Alye Parusa (premium food), Brusnichka (Ukrainian grocery retail chain), Obi, Fix Price (household and garden goods), L’Etoile (cosmetics and perfumery), Rigla (drugstore chain), Adidas Group (sport goods), Detskiy Mir (children’s goods), etc.

Retail chains also provide informational support to the event. Find an up-to-date list of IPLS 2016 retail partners here. All retail partners and chains participate as honored guests of the event.

BUSINESS PROGRAMME: UNIQUE, INSIGHTFUL PLACE FOR TRUE PROFESSIONALS

·         Trade Forumis a central event about the private label market in Russian retail chains, and a source of analytical information and up-to-date, expert recommendations on how to be successful in Russian and international PL markets.

·         Chain’s Wholesale Centreprovides an opportunity to offer goods and services directly to decision makers from national and regional retail chain operators in Russia & CIS. This part of the programme is held in the Retailers’ Lounge. Exhibitors meet representatives of federal and regional retail chains and negotiate their business contracts.

·         For the first time since IPLS launched,Private Label Gallery will take place on the exhibition floor. Retail chains will demonstrate their most successful private label projects, and compete over creativity, design and performance. Attendees of the show will vote for the best private label showcased in the Gallery. The winner will receive a prize in the ‘Consumers choice!’ award category.

·         At the end of the exhibition, the Private Label Awards (by IPLS) ceremonywill be held to reward retail chains and manufacturers for their contribution to private label development in Russia & CIS.

TESTIMONIALS

According to surveys conducted at IPLS 2015, 70%of exhibitors intend to return to IPLS in 2016; 95%visitors are satisfied and plan to return next year. How do they describe their experience?

Cosmoproject, Anna Guarneri, Marketing & Communication Manager: “We were herelast year and we decided to come back because we made great contacts and had the possibility to develop them. IPLS helped us to find ways to do business in Russia, to understand how the market works and the consumer behavior.”

Pobeda (confectionery factory), Irina Petrova, PL Deputy Director:“The exhibition was held at an intense pace, we had a lot of negotiations with prospective buyers as well as existing partners. The exhibition is specialised, and it’s great as the discussion stays focused. We were happy to see the flow of ready-to-buy target customers at our stand.”

Galil Chemicals, Vladimir Spirt, Export Department:“The exhibition was held at the highest level of standards. We have reached our goals. We’ve participated at IPLS for the second time; therefore our products attracted more attention from visitors.”

Continentale Nutrition, Francis Nouvier, General Director: “IPLS presents a good opportunity to strengthen our position in Russia. Our market is growing fast as a result of the higher standards of living, and we participate in IPLS to keep up with it.”

Acetum, Marco Pellacani, Export Manager Europe:“This was our first experience at IPLS, and we had plenty of visits, some of them had already been arranged, others showed up during the show. The organisation was very efficient!”

Fattorie Giacobazzi, Angelo Giacobazzi, Owner: “IPLS was very helpful for our company because it allowed us to enter the market with our product at a competitive price, giving the benefit to the final consumer.”

SPAR (retail chain), Andrey Teterin, Commercial Director:“The show was medium-scale but very productive. It resulted in making the necessary contacts. The private labels assortment was diverse and interesting.”

Protek (retail chain), Olga Smirnova:“I came out with very interesting ideas and experienced great pleasure from communicating with companies.

See you at IPLS: 22-23 March 2016!

·                                                              VISIT WWW.IPLS-RUSSIA.RUTO FIND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW!

·                                                              Register for the show: http://www.ipls-russia.ru/en/Home/

Organiser:

Reed Exhibitionsis the world’s leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 43 countries. In 2014 Reed brought together over seven million event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organised by 41 fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 43 industry sectors with trade and consumer events. It is part of the RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries.

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The Great Fragmentation of health drives growth for small and niche brands

The massive fragmentation of consumers’ beliefs about health is contributing to the break-up of traditional food and beverage markets and opening the doors of opportunity for start-ups and small brands, says Julian Mellentin, director of New Nutrition Business and author of 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2016. “Big food companies are being forced to rethink their business models,” he says.

Key Trend 5: The Great Fragmentation explains how high volume opportunities are scarce and becoming scarcer. In some markets they may already be history, says Mellentin.

The shift in the food landscape is influenced by 25 years of digital sampling, mash-ups, music sampling, remixing, restaurant fusion food – all an established part of the culture that surrounds people.

Just as the person who listens to Bach’s Goldberg Variations at home also listens to Aerosmith or Black Sabbath while driving to work, people’s ideas about food and health have become a menu of choices from which they select and change as new information becomes available. We’re all food explorers now, looking for novelty and variety.

This is producing a proliferation of niches that smaller companies and new brands – often premium – are perfectly placed to serve.

In the future, smart companies will only rarely launch mass-market brands aiming to rapidly get high volume. Instead they will build portfolios of small brands, finely targeted at an ever-more fragmented consumer market. A few of these will become big brands, some will be big niche, most will remain niche.

The report gives the example of US giant General Mills as one of the few larger and more visionary companies already embracing the change. It has set up a new business unit – called 301 Inc. – to invest in entrepreneurs and early stage food companies.

“The rapidly evolving consumer landscape is dramatically changing the game in the food industry,” said John Haugen, general manager of 301 Inc. “Tremendous opportunity exists...to partner with and foster emerging food brands.”

As the Great Fragmentation moves forward, this new model will become the standard for large food and beverage businesses. The market-redefining power of this trend is illustrated by Key Trend 7: Plant-Based Foods and Beverages. Non-dairy plant “milks” such as almond milk have seen sales jump by between 20% (Spain) and 50% (US).

This trend is not driven by beliefs in veganism or vegetarianism, but rather by consumers’ love of variety and novelty. We’re all flexitarians now, using cows’ milk on our cereal, almond milk in our smoothies and coconut milk in our cooking as it suits us. And the halo of health and sustainability around plant-based foods means consumers feel good about their choices.

This trend has also been made possible by massive improvements in the taste of plant-based foods (which accounts for almond milk’s rise at the expense of soy milk), and by technical advances that make it easier to include plant-based ingredients such as beans and seaweed in good-tasting snack formats.

Fragmentation also underpins Key Trend 1: Beverages Redefined. Beverage giants’ sales have peaked, soft drink sales are plunging and fruit juices are struggling.  Small niche drink brands are reshaping the market. Plant waters such as coconut and birch water meet consumers’ desire for products that are naturally healthy, have no additives, are naturally low in calories and sugar, and sustainable. “Plant waters will be a $4 billion market by 2025,” predicts Mellentin.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1.      10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2016 is available from www.new-nutrition.com.

2.      The attached graphics (which may be used for publication and are supplied in JPEG format) illustrate the forces at work in Key Trend 5: The Great Fragmentation, and show all the 10 Key Trends for 2016.

3.      Excerpts from the report are available on request from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

4.      For more information about New Nutrition Business, or to arrange an interview with Julian Mellentin, contact Kine Bjoralt at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

5.      Julian Mellentin is one of the world’s few international specialists in the business of food, nutrition and health. He is director of New Nutrition Business (www.new-nutrition.com) which provides case studies and analysis of success and failure in the global nutrition business and is used by more than 1,700 corporate subscribers in 42 countries.

6.      New Nutrition Business has offices in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand and affiliates in Japan and South Korea.

7.      Follow us on Twitter at @newnutritionb

China Intl Food Expo Invitation- IFE 2016

IFE CHINA focus on assisting oversea companies to find the distributors and agent to expand the food & beverage market in China, 49,390+sqm exhibition spaces, 1,378+ exhibitors from 55 countries and regions 62,725 professional visitors in the exhibition. IFE is the largest and most professional food trade show in South China, all visitors are professional and high quality.

IFE CHINA especially high light with Edible Oil and Olive Oil sector, Healthy & Organic Food Sector, Wine and Spirit Sector, Coffee and High-end Drinking Water Sector, Beverage Sector etc. The high popularity and various channels will improve your company image and brand awareness. It’s also easy to find potential customers. Your highly attention will be much appreciated.

Benefits of participation:

--Find new buyers/distributors;

--Update existing customers/agents;

--Launch new products/services;

--Special offer/promotions;

--Make foreign contacts, etc

IFE2016 Committee

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510507

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IFE China International Food Trade Show 2016

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