Seafood Barcelona will open his doors arropado by a big international representation

The first edition of Seafood Barcelona (15- 17 October 2012) expects to attract 300 display units and 40.000 professional visitors between foodservice, retail, distributors, processors, producers, brokers, importing and exporters. By his part, 40% of the display units will be of international origin, sample of the influence of this new living room in the external market.

The main value of Seafood Barcelona is his strategic positioning with preferential attention on the south markets of Europe –between which appear Spain, Italy, France and Portugal–, of the Maghreb and of Sudamérica, where Spain supposes a powerful road of access. According to data of the organisers, Diversified Business Communications and Alimentary Exhibitions, already have confirmed the presence of display units of Canada, Germany, Ecuador, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Norway, Lithuania, Holland, Scotland, Switzerland, USES, France, United Kingdom, Peru, Chile and Thailand.

In the living room will exhibit the most complete offer of products of the cool sea, in preserve, processed, and frozen products, as well as complementary services for his processing, conservation and logistical.

In fact, during the recent celebration of the European Seafood Exposition of Brussels, also organised by Diversified Business Communications, the organisers have been able to reaffirm the interest of the main traders of the international market for participating in Seafood Barcelona.

For Leandre Serra, president of the Guild of Wholesalers of the Mercat Central of the Peix of Mercabarna, the managing society that concentrates the wholesale markets of the city of Barcelona, as well as numerous signatures of manufacturing, trade, distribution, import and export of cool products and frozen products, Seafood Barcelona is “the big opportunity to convert Barcelona in the shop window of the market pesquero south of Europe and show the big potential and the wide experience of the city in the sector”. For Serra, a living room like Seafood is the “ideal stage to put in contact the offer and the demand and create a space where the actors can interrelate and create sinergias”.

By his part, Diversified Business Communications has bet by our country like headquarters of a new living room Seafood. No Our country is the third importing world-wide of fish with shopping by value of 5.900 million American dollars in 2009, and the first exporter of the EU, representing 17% of the total comunitario, according to data of the ICEX and Magrama. The consumption per person and year situates in the 37 kilos, one of the more heights of the EU.