Tradeshow Insight: Alimentaria 2026
Alimentaria 2026, held in Barcelona from 23rd to 26th March, marked its 50th anniversary this year as a premier global platform for the food, beverage, and foodservice industries. This edition, staged at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via venue, successfully integrated with Hostelco to cover the entire hospitality and catering value chain. The event concluded with […]
Tradeshow Look Ahead: Anna Canal, Alimentaria 2026
Gama spoke to Anna Canal, director, ahead of the latest edition of Alimentaria. What are your expectations for Alimentaria 2026? Alimentaria is the leading food, beverage, and gastronomy platform in Spain and one of the main international benchmarks for the sector. The synergies generated by the joint celebration of Alimentaria and Hostelco for this next edition […]
Tradeshow Insight: Alimentaria 2024
For four days this March, Barcelona became the focus of attention for the global food and drink industry as the city’s Fira Barcelona played host to the latest edition of Alimentaria and its co-located show Hostelco. Proclaimed the most global edition to date, with 900 of the 3,200 exhibitors hailing from outside Spain, Alimentaria&Hostelco 2024 saw […]
Tradeshow Look Ahead: Josep Antoni Valls, Alimentaria 2024
Gama spoke to Josep Antoni Valls, director general, ahead of the latest edition of Alimentaria. Read the interview in the latest issue of Gama News. What are your expectations for Alimentaria&Hostelco 2024? The 2024 edition will be the most international to date. More than 900 out of the 3,200 exhibiting firms expected will be international, coming […]
Tradeshow Insight: Alimentaria 2016
In April, Spain once again became the focal point for the world’s consumer goods firms as Alimentaria returned for its latest edition at Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via. Now into its 40th year, Alimentaria hosted a total of 140,000 visitors from 157 countries (16 more than in 2014), indicating, in the show’s words, “its international pulling […]
Look Ahead: Josep Antoni Valls, Alimentaria 2016
Gama spoke to Josep Antoni Valls, Managing Director of Alimentaria, ahead of the 40th edition of the international consumer goods tradeshow. What are your expectations for the 40th edition of Alimentaria? We are expecting the most international, innovative and gastronomy-rich edition in the 40 years of the show. Among the more than 140,000 attendees we […]
Tradeshow Insight: Alimentaria 2014
This week, Barcelona once again played host to one of Europe’s leading international tradeshows – Alimentaria. Celebration its 40th outing – and its 20th in Spain – the event attracted 140,000 visitors to the pavilions of the Fira Gran Via in the south of the city, where 3,800 companies exhibited products from all sectors of […]
Look Ahead: Josep Antoni Valls, Alimentaria 2014
Gama spoke to Josep Antoni Valls, Director of Alimentaria, ahead of the show’s 20th edition in Barcelona. What are your day to day activities? The major part of my day to day work is taken up with the strategic direction of Alimentaria Barcelona: meetings with the different areas of the organisation, dealings with institutional stakeholders […]