Industry Events - 2009 Calendar

The 34th annual Winter Fancy Food Show takes place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.  The show attracts from 19,000 to 24,000 attendees from specialty food, wine, gift and department stores, supermarkets, restaurants, mail order and other related businesses.  These attendees come to see more than one thousand exhibitors from around the world presenting over 280,000 specialty foods to discover and sample.

http://www.specialtyfood.com/do/Home

Western Canada's largest hospitality trade show the BC Food Service Expo provides an outstanding opportunity to meet customers face to face. BCSFA attended this show in 2006 and we are looking forward to returning in 2009. This show is designed to launch new products, to build new customer relationships and to strengthen existing ones. Research shows that BC residents spend $292 more on restaurant meals annually than the Canadian average and this trade show puts us in direct contact restaurant owners and staff, enabling us to better educate them about how we care for our salmon and the environment we raise them in.

www.crfa.ca/bcexpo

May 22-24, 2009

EAT! Vancouver, Canada's largest consumer food, beverage and cooking festival, takes place at BC Place Stadium.  The food show features hundreds of food, beverage and kitchen goods exhibitors along with wineries, breweries, restaurants, cooking demonstrations, wine and cheese seminars, cookbook authors, chef competitions and barbeque and chili cook-offs.  Eat! Vancouver has a proven track record of attracting an audience that is passionate about eating, drinking and entertaining, making it a highly targeted marketing platform for companies looking to expand profile and market share. The BC Salmon Farmers' Association will proudly showcase farmed fresh salmon.

www.eat-vancouver.com

Eat! Fraser Valley was developed in response to overwhelming consumer demand in the valley, the very successful six-year old Eat! Vancouver is recreating the magic of food and cooking at the Tradex Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford, BC.  The festival will draw on a consumer base of over 1.5 million persons in the fastest growing community in Canada.  Eat! Farser Valley encompasses unique food experiences, oppotunities to learn behind the scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and intense culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits, and, of course, fantastic shopping opportunities.

www.eat-fraservalley.com