Gulfood: The Largest Annual Food Show in the World
SUPERCHARGING THE GLOBAL FOOD AGENDA
Driving creativity and change, in February 2023, the 28th edition of Gulfood will continue to unite food and beverage communities around the world, and act as an industry trend springboard and a global sourcing powerhouse.
Join us as over 5000 companies from more than 120 countries, a line-up of industry thought leaders, and the world's greatest chefs chart the way forward and inspire industry-wide transformation for the good of the entire ecosystem.
ALL YOU CAN EXPERIENCE AT GULFOOD 2023
Aspiring young chefs looking to lead the region’s F&B industry in the next 20 years will find a place to showcase their skills at YouthX.
Get a head-start on the topics and trends that matter at Gulfood Inspire. The stage is set for impactful conversations in the world of F&B.
Hear from the leaders changing the status quo, from celebrated women chefs to business leaders to government heads, hear the inspiring success stories from one of the largest line-ups of women speakers.
Top Table will bring the culinary community together with a star-studded lineup of internationally renowned chefs unveiling the next culinary trend and food masterpieces.
Discover the metaverse's unimaginable opportunities within the food ecosystem, a revolutionary concept that opens up unexplored possibilities.
The ever-engaging Chef Talks will offer deeper insight with intimate talks getting up close and personal with culinary icons.
Time to connect, create and power the change that really matters, and rethink the way we use and consume food. Gulfood Zero Waste is our movement, our mission to create a sustainable food & beverage platform and an inspiration to not only people in the F&B industry.
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Recognising the best new-to-industry technologies and product-specific innovations.
See the next big breakthrough idea. Meet the startups sparking an industry-wide revolution.
EXPLORE OUR SHOW SECTORS
Lets Chew Podcast!
LATEST NEW'S
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Moritz Stefaner has long been obsessed with food. As a designer, he has even used meals to visualize data about everything from ethnic diversity to scientific funding. So when he encountered an AI tha ... -
In Heinz’s squeezable upside-down ketchup bottle, the plastic cap is designed to dispense a standard blob of sauce without spilling. It works. But it can’t easily be recycled, so the Kraft Heinz Compa ...
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Three UAE start-ups focused on solving hunger and food waste problems have made it to the final round of FoodTech Challenge. Food ATM, a company that helps to provide food to people on lower incomes ... -
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Alternative meat, seafood and dairy products are all the rage in startup land, with countless companies raising bucketloads of cash and showcasing their first products throughout 2022. There are two ... -
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Australia’s first cell-based milk startup, Me&, says it is developing cell-based breast milk just like a human mother would. Me&’s cellular and molecular technology captures the inbuilt program in b ... -
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A sustainable alternative to palm oil can’t come soon enough. C16 Biosciences says it’s ready to make it happen with its first commercial product line launching next year. C16 Biosciences, the Bill ... -
Thanks to innovative plant-based meat brands like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, gone are the days of cardboard-like veggie burgers. And with global partnerships with fast-food restaurants like Bur ...
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The Cove water bottle is a thin, sturdy cylinder, eggshell-white with a matching lid. It feels familiar. “If someone gave that to you,” offered Alex Totterman, Cove’s founder and chief executive, “you ... -
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For decades, astronauts have been eating dehydrated or liquefied food that leaves a foul taste in the mouth. Food has to be prepared in that way because it needs to have a longer shelf life, and com ... -
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Saudi Arabia-based SaaS startup Order, has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed funding round, led by several angel investors. Founded in 2020 by Faisal AlAnazi and Essam Mohamed, Order provides technical ... -
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Saudi Arabian dairy giant Almarai has posted net profits reaching $123.19 million ( SAR 463.172 million) in the third quarter of 2022, marking a 13.2% increase from the $108.8 million (SAR 409 million ... -
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Shares of Tyson Foods dipped Wednesday after Bank of America downgraded its outlook for the meat processing giant, worsening an already no good, very bad week for its new finance chief who was arreste ... -
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The company will invest in localising the halal production industry in Saudi Arabia The Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced the launch of the Halal Products Development Company (HPDC) on Monday. ... -
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Alternative dairy maker Change Foods has signed an agreement with the KEZAD Group to design the first-of-its-kind commercial manufacturing plant in the UAE, helping to solve one of the industry’s bigg ... -
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In the epic 1967 film The Graduate, the young lead character Ben played by Dustin Hoffman is given advice about his future by Mr. McGuire – “One word. Plastics.” Indeed, plastics have fulfilled a vast ... -
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Liran Akavia, founder and chief operating officer of Israel-based tech firm Seebo, offers this simple piece of advice to food companies regarding how artificial intelligence (AI) can make their plants ... -
Ukraine said its exports of agricultural products have recovered to around prewar levels, a revival that has helped ease pressure on global food prices and offers a bright spot in Kyiv’s fight against ...
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Without the use of water, soil or fertilisers, vertical fields of “red gold” have been produced in Sharjah as preparations are made for the UAE's first saffron harvest. Agricultural technology firm Ve ... -
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It might well be an ancient process, used in food and drink preparation as far back as the 7th millennium BC, but fermentation is thriving like the very finest of sourdough at the moment. Well on i ... -
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The food and beverage giant hopes practices such as using cover crops can help it meet its goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2040, said Rob Meyers, vice president of global sustainability. Pepsi ... -
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Dive Brief: Mondelēz International will spend an additional $600 million by 2030 on its Cocoa Life program. The initiative, which started in 2012, addresses environmental and human rights challenges a ... -
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Food import costs globally are projected to reach $1.94 trillion this year and will affect some of the most economically vulnerable countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. ... -
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Stellar Pizza, a mobile pizza restaurant powered by robots, has secured $16.5 million in a Series A funding round, led by rapper Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners. Previous fundrai ... -
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There’s climate change and the environment: Almost 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to livestock, while in the US alone, air pollution from meat production is linked to ... -
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacerbated food shortages—already worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic—and shed light on global agriculture’s massive nutrient and energy needs. Most fertilizers are made fro ... -
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It is estimated that each year 80 billion pounds of food is wasted in the US. The largest share of that, 43%, is at consumers’ homes. Nearly as much (40%) is at the retail level (restaurants, food ser ... -
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The challenge of sustainably feeding a world of 10 billion people is going to require a lot of solutions. Entrepreneurs and innovators all over the globe are working hard to come up with answers. And ... -
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Ruramiso Mashumba, the founder of Mnandi Africa, advocates and teaches women about the gains that are possible in the agricultural sector through her initiative. With nearly a decade of farming expe ... -
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LBX Food Robotics (formerly known as LeBread Xpress) announced today they have partnered with The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) Foundation to install bread-dispensing robot ... -
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Most people have experienced a form of “food poisoning” at some point in their lives. When salmonella is the cause, typical symptoms include diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever, which resolve themselv ... -
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Dive Brief: Mars has debuted candy jars made with 15% recycled plastic — for M&M’s, Starburst and Skittles bulk products — in collaboration with packaging manufacturer Berry, which will launch in Octo ... -
All the world’s inflation woes are melting into a stick of butter. Lower milk production on U.S. dairy farms and labor shortages for processing plants have weighed on butter output for months, leavi ...
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Chipotle is piloting several technologies designed to streamline operations and reduce friction for guests and employees, the company announced Tuesday. The technologies include a kitchen management ... -
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The Biden administration unveiled a collection of nutrition, wellness, health and accessibility policies that seek to end hunger and increase dietary and physical health among Americans by 2030. The N ... -
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In 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that within a decade, robotic systems will be advanced enough to grasp items with the dexterity of a human hand. Three years later, Amazon looks to be maki ... -
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Dive Brief: Starbucks is launching an NFT marketplace called Starbucks Odyssey, which will be integrated with the company’s loyalty program, it announced Monday. Customers will have two paths to acc ... -
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As the popularity of African dishes rises around the world, most of the conversation has focused on their appearance, spiciness, and recipes, more intensely on ownership and appropriation, but barely ... -
India banned exports of broken rice and levied a tax on other key varieties in a move that would add to global inflationary pressure and exacerbate food supply pains caused by the war in Ukraine. La ...
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Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle at the age of 96. Her reign on the throne lasted 70 years. The late queen, who was immensely popular t ...
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Saudi food delivery company Jahez (Jahez International Company for Information System Technology) announced an increase in net profit by almost 85 percent in the first half of 2022, compared to the sa ... -
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Based in Stockholm and recently launched in the UK, Motatos is a startup taking on food waste through ecommerce. The Nordic team has just raised €38 million through a directed new share issue to exist ... -
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We always talk about there being ‘plenty more fish in the sea’ and our oceans are perceived as inexhaustible. An ecosystem covering almost three quarters of our planet, it appears too vast and too dee ... -
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RIYADH: UAE-based global food trade startup QS Monitor has created a platform for food traders to ship their goods risk-free. Established in 2020, the company mitigates the risk for exporters as they ... -
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The following is a guest post from Didier Toubia, co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms, and Karen Hooper, policy lead, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. The United Nations Climate Change Conferen ... -
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Sending seeds for short trips to space helps scientists develop new crop varieties that can thrive in the changing climate and help feed the world's growing population. At first glance they are iden ... -
Thomas has lived in Kalobeyei refugee settlement in Turkana for the past six years. The last two have been some of the hardest as a result of a prolonged drought. “I come from Burundi where I used t ...
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• The new partnership to build on a stellar portfolio of business and consumer events to take the 30-year legacy of shows like GULFOOD and The Hotel Show to new markets • DWTC establishes KAOUN Inter ... -
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Researchers said their new tech could help with automated food preparation by programming robots to learn what tastes good and what doesn’t. University of Cambridge researchers have developed an inno ... -
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Today, Chilean food tech company NotCo is selling plant-based milk made with pineapple and cabbage juices, plant-based burgers that contain bamboo fibers, and a new chicken product formulated with cor ... -
It all started with wanting convenient, healthy snacks. Rachel Drori went from making smoothies for herself (and freezing them for later) and her friends and family to launching plant-based frozen mea ...
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Gulfood is one of the greatest platforms for doing business in the world. We were able to make connections with big buyers, distributors, importers from all over the world.
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For Agthia, Gulfood is one of the biggest annual F&B events in the world. It is very important for us to be here, to meet new customers, suppliers, stakeholders and bring our teams together.
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Our company has become global only because of Gulfood. When we started Gulfood we had 25 countries in our portfolio now we stand at 65+ countries. We managed to get buyers from countries that we didn’t even aim to visit.
