IFMA AFRICA 2009

The only event of its kind on the continent, Africa’s Big Seven Expo presents a composite of seven separate but co-located events that define the various stages and specific technologies required to move produce from the field through the processing, packaging and marketing phases eventually culminating in retail sales

Africa – a market of 725 million consumers.
Africa’s store of oil and mineral resources and the meteoric rise in world prices for these commodities has awakened the world to the fact that the continent is suddenly a good place to do business. There is little argument that Africa’s economic prospects are the best they have ever seen. Africa’s rapidly expanding middle class, their changing lifestyles and growing disposable income all add up to enormous business opportunities for suppliers of raw produce, processing and packaging equipment, associated relevant technology as well as retail ready products

“The simple fact is that Africa wants to do business” said Teigue Payne, publisher of leading industry journal Food & Beverage Reporter. “Africa’s Big Seven plays a hugely successful role in linking our markets to the outside world”

John Ackermann, publisher of refrigeration magazine The Cold Link further affirmed “Africa’s Big Seven can truly be described as an international meeting forum for the food trade”