Confectioners Represented the Largest Visitor Group at Ibatech Istanbul 2016

The biennial international Trade Fair for Bakery, Patisserie Machinery, Ice Cream, Chocolate and Technologies (Ibatech Istanbul) is regarded as the leading event in its industry for the dynamic Turkish growth market and the entire Eurasia region and it has registered an important growth in terms of visitors and exhibitors this year.

–          74,563 visitors from 114 countries attended the trade fair

–          17% more visitors than at the previous event in 2014

–          50,000 square metres for the trade fair

–          366 exhibiting companies from 18 countries

–          27% more exhibitors than in 2014

Visitors rated Ibatech as extremely positive

–          According to a survey, visitors generally awarded Ibatech Istanbul a good overall mark of 1.7 (marks on a scale of 1 to 6, where 1 is the highest and 6 the lowest mark).

–          Due to their satisfaction, nearly every visitor (98%) also wanted to come back to the trade fair in 2018. 99% of respondents were intending to recommend the event to work colleagues, superiors or business associates while 90% believed that the trade fair would become more important in future.

–          Confectioners represented the largest visitor group at 47% (2014: 45%), followed by bakers at 21% (2014: 33 per cent).

–          There was a substantial rise in the proportion of manufacturers of chocolate and confectionery (15% compared with 9% in 2014) and ice cream producers (17 per cent compared with 7% in 2014).

–          The trade visitors were primarily interested in frozen products, cakes and convenience products (47%) followed by raw materials and semi-finished products (46%), as well as production machinery and accessories (35%).

–          In general, visitors demonstrated a high propensity to invest. 80% of them were involved in purchasing and procurement intentions. In the official trade fair survey, 82% of visitors said they would definitely or probably make investments.

An official German stand, for the first time

It was presented by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy with the support of the VDMA Association for Food Processing Machinery and Packaging Machinery.

Ibatech Istanbul was also supported for the first time by the Turkish Ministry of Economic Affairs and was publicised by the Turkish attachés in the target countries.

Visitor delegations from numerous countries such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Tunisia, Oman, Cameroon, Bulgaria, etc. came to the trade fair to obtain information and were welcomed at the opening ceremony by Cevdet Yılmaz, the Turkish Minister of Development.

The next Ibatech Istanbul will be held in Istanbul from 12 to 15 April 2018. Ibatech Izmir will take place in Izmir (this year for the first time) December 8 to 10, 2016, while Ibatech Ankara will be staged in Ankara, March, from 9-12, 2017.