Online Maistas, Gėrimai, Pakavimas SALIMA

At the present time ca 11,900 businesses are registered in the food sector, of which ca 9,400 are natural persons doing business on the basis of the Act to Regulate Trades. The turnover of the Czech food market is 270 billion CZK, of which about 225 billion go to the food chains. Czech export is worth 60 billion CZK and import of the food sector ca 90 billion CZK. In the segment of small and medium-sized businesses in the area of dairies, bakeries and meat processors the market is expected to concentrate – new leaders in the field will appear. On the retail market the structure of suppliers is changing (more goods imported from the neighbouring member countries, incl. Poland). The buying power of the Czech population is approaching the European standard very slowly. The buying power of the Czech Republic converted to the number of inhabitants is ca 66% of the average standard of the EU15 (in Hungary 59%, Slovakia 49% and Poland 45%). EVENT CHARACTERISTICS Acknowledged as the most significant food and food industry trade fair in Central Europe, SALIMA attracts leading food producers and buyers from the Czech Republic and the neighbouring EU countries: Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Hungary, as well as from Eastern Europe. SALIMA features top class food products, and food-processing machinery, technology, packaging machines, industry related IT solutions.