Sigep World set to welcome dozens of industry speakers and global exhibitors
Sigep World 2025 is primed for a global audience. Pic: Sigep
A major global industry gathering will be returning to the Rimini Expo Centre for Sigep World 2025 in Italy, celebrating excellence in foodservice, across market segments including gelato, chocolate, pastry, bakery, and pizza, featuring a supporting programme of dozens of speakers, writes Neill Barston.
Confectionery Production will be on hand as a media partner for the show, which has recently been rebranded to reflect its global focus, emphasising the fact that there will be exhibitors from 33 countries, from local experts through to representation from Germany, Spain, China, France, Turkey, Belgium, Poland and the US.
As its organisers noted, the event will shine a light on technological innovation will feature in every supply chain, making the event a privileged showcase for discovering the latest trends and innovative solutions that are transforming the global foodservice universe, bolstered by a number of new nationalities becoming involved.
Notably, the 2025 edition will feature Saudi Arabia as Guest Country, with the country demonstrating a rapidly expanding market and a growing demand for technological innovation that has underlined its hosting of Expo 2030. It is emerging as a key location for the hospitality and catering industry and will represent a strategic opportunity for companies, offering new perspectives for the global foodservice industry.
Significantly, a delegation of top Saudi Arabian buyers is expected to arrive in Rimini specifically for SIGEP World and will include big names such as Barn’s, a coffee shop chain with more than 800 points of sale, Elite Hospitality/Al-Nahla Group, a leading hospitality company, and Al Tazaj, a chain of quick service restaurants with over 120 venues.
SIGEP World 2025 will give technological innovation and sustainability in Foodservice a considerable boost with over 40 international events, including talks and competitions, involving 60 speakers from the Out-of-Home industry.
More than 520 buyers from 79 countries, such as the United States, India, Canada, Brazil, Turkey and China have already joined the Top Buyers’ Programme organised to facilitate the encounter between supply and demand at the exhibition.
The profiles represent the main players in the Foodservice industry: 34% come from chains – such as gelato parlours, restaurants, quick service restaurants, pastry shops, coffee shops, bakeries, pizzerias and hotel chains – while 28% are producers and artisan workshops.
According to Sigep’s organisers, the event will be anticipated to feature 20% importers, 14% distributors and wholesalers, and 4% large-scale retail trade and mass catering representatives. These will be joined by more than 2,500 European buyers from Spain, Germany, France, Romania, Greece and the United Kingdom, who will be included in the Premium Programme. The event’s ability to attract such a wide range of markets is proven by the attendance of countries such as the United States, a major global promoter of Pizza – a sector that will see further expansion at Sigep World -, Germany and Spain, best European performers of artisan gelato. To register for this month’s show, visit the event website at https://www.sigep.it/en
