Magazine: World Tour on the programme of the SIAL 2016 trade show in Paris!

Consumption and retail trends, and successful innovations from 28 countries that reflect these – this is World Tour by SIAL, to which Trade magazin is the Hungarian partner. Between 16 and 20 October 2016 everyone will get a chance at the SIAL trade show in Paris to see where the world’s food industry is going. SIAL Paris is the biggest event in the SIAL Network that consists of 7 trade exhibitions in 6 cities all over the world, attracting 14,000 exhibitors and 330,000 visitors from 194 countries every year. World Tour is the expanded version of the earlier product competition SIAL d’Or, in which international jury members don’t only analyse products but also global market and consumption trends. Representatives of trade magazines from 28 countries met at the end of March to introduce their own markets and successful products. It turned out that consumers are starting to prefer healthy products everywhere. Consumers are paying increased attention to what they are eating and they are looking for organic, low-sugar, reduced-fat, preservative-free, gluten-free and ‘free from’ products. The popularity of so-called superfoods is growing and there are more and more products available in shops which serve special dietary needs, e.g. functional foods such as protein-enriched groceries.

Shoppers still like convenience products very much: any product that saves them time and energy is likely to become and stay popular if it is healthy, tasty and available at a good price. Consumption habits are changing, especially now that a new generation, that of the so-called Millennials is growing up. They eat snack more often, they like to eat on the go and visit restaurants more frequently than the older generation. FMCG retail and the culinary sector are no longer fully separated from one another. In addition to this, in many countries programmes are launched to prevent food waste, cutting it by 50 percent until 2025.