 Seventy thousand
attendees from 104 countries visited six
adjacent exhibit halls, including one just for pizza. The Italian Pizza
Centre
was where we spent most of our time, but pizza products where found
throughout
the 70,000 square meter complex.
Attendees,
exhibitors and management were all pleased with
the pace and vitality of the show as SIAB experienced a 19 percent
increase in
attendance from the last SIAB in 2001. The next SIAB will be held in Verona in 2007. Italy, France
and Germany take
turns
rotating Europe’s largest bakery
industry
event. Next year, France
will host Europain 2005 in Paris
April 16-20, and PMQ will be there exploring and searching for pizza
news.
PMQ found
many great pizza related products, designs and
technologies, which we were not previously aware of, and many of these
same
companies will be coming to the New York Pizza Show in November. The
European
Italian Pizza Institute organized the first-ever international pizza
roundtable
where panel members from Japan, Italy, America and
many other countries where able to share their insight about
international
pizza trends. |
