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46th edition 18-22 January 2025 Rimini Expo Centre, Italy
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Buyers' Program

What is Buyers' Program

The Buyers’ Program is a specific program developed and designed for selected top buyers.

Participating in the Buyers’ Program at SIGEP you will have the chance to:

  • Meet representatives from the world’s leading gelato and confectionery artisan producers and have access to new exciting business opportunities.
  • Discover all the supply chain processes involved in the bakery sector, from dough and production to packaging.
  • Meet the most prestigious companies in the coffee world and explore the pizza sector.
  • Keep up-to-date with trends and visions presented by the sectors’ top experts and opinion leaders.
  • Use our exclusive online Platform “My Agenda” that will allow you to preview the exhibitors’ list and schedule meetings with them before SIGEP.

 

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What the program offers

The Buyers’ Program offers reserved services to our selected buyers:

 

  • Contribution to the accomodation.
  • Airport transfers: organized transfers from Bologna/Rimini airport to the hotel and back.
  • Daily On-site transfers: daily shuttle service to and from the fairground.
  • Vip badge access: exclusive VIP badge, that grants the priority access to the event and to our exclusive Buyers Lounge with some dedicated services.
  • On-site lunch: lunch buffet in a dedicated area.
  • Interpreting service: interpreting service for non-fluent English speakers.
  • Dedicated support: both in the lead-up to the event and throughout your time at SIGEP from the IEG Team.
  • Matchmaking platform: exclusive access to our matchmaking platform with the ability to view exhibitor profiles in advance and schedule meetings that will be held directly at the expo.

 

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Who can attend

The program is reserved for professionals who have decisional power in purchasing processes (purchasing managers, food&beverage managers, owners, and food brokers) in the following categories:

 

  • Importers of machinery/technology/ingredients (raw materials, finished and semi-finished products) for Gelato, Pastry and Chocolate, Coffee, Bakery and Pizza;
  • Owners and/or managers or purchasing managers chains of gelato shops, pastry shops, bakery shops, coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, pizza restaurants/pizza shops;
  • Buying groups;
  • Manufacturing companies (industries and workshops) of Gelato, Pastry, Bakery, Chocolate, and finished products (sweet and savory);
  • Catering for airlines companies, cruise ships, mass catering.

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How to apply

Fill out the application form here.

 

Your application will be assessed by the Buyers’ Office. Shortly you will be able to know if your company profile is eligible to join the Buyers’ Program.

This application is not a confirmation of acceptance. Please wait for our team to carefully assess your profile.

 

For further information, please write to: buyer.foodbeverage@iegexpo.it

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“Our main interest is the B2B market because in Peru that market is a little bit small. It is really interesting to see alternatives of products to offer to other business owners, such as pastry or bakery, premade things for catering, so there are a lot of options at SIGEP that do not exist right now in Peru that we can be the first to have.”

Isidora Vallejo Representative of Superfood Holding, Peru

"We think that it is very important to come to SIGEP and see innovation, to always to be one step beyond, to know the trends of the market and always be in a continuous getting better techniques of machinery, of raw materials, flavours. We are always looking for new machinery and new ways of innovation in the quality of product, look of product and of course in the flavour of the product."

Jack Volin General Director of Aldo's Gelato, Messico

“What pushed me to come back to SIGEP is that when we come here, we're exposed to a much higher quality industrialized line of products that we can use in our production system throughout the US. We also find there's much more innovation here in Italy compared to the US at the mass production level. And finally, equipment: the freezers, the refrigerators, the display cabinets, that does not even exist in the United States.”

Ben Van Leeuwen CEO and Co-Founder of Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, New York City

“We're looking for more innovation, especially in the pizza and the gelato sectors. It's really hard to find so many different flavours, or all the different machines anywhere around Asia. It's been 3 years that I kept researching for SIGEP because I actually wanted to come and see how complete it was. Now I'm really excited that we're finally here this time. Italian food is definitely booming in our country.”

Andry Susanto Owner of Oma Elly, specialized in Italian Cuisine, Indonesia

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Interested in learning more about how to participate in the Buyers' Program?

 

Contact us at: buyer.foodbeverage@iegexpo.it