world of private label: supplying global retailthe annual plma trade show is a top-level, highly...
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Dutch-MacedonianChamber of Commerce
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NL Chamber was established in January 2012 as official Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce by 50 Macedonian companies, according to the Macedo nian Law on Chambers of Commerce.
One third of these companies is partly or fully Dutch owned.
Objective of NL Chamber is to promote and support successful business relations between Dutch and Macedonian companies.
The annual PLMA trade show is a top-level, highly concentra-ted business-to-business trade fair. In only two days 11,000 trade professionals from 115 countries meet with manufac-turers from 70 countries at 4,000 stands.
World of Private Label:Supplying Global Retail
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The world’s retailers of food and non-food gather every year in Amsterdam to meet their suppliers at the B2B trade fair “PLMA’s World of Private Label” end of May.Joint participation through country pavilions is the key formula of this fair.
“World Private Label exceeded all my expectations. For vari-ous companies that I got to know before, I now even had the chance to meet with the top management at this fair,” says Viktor Kolovski, CEO of Konimex and visitor of PLMA.
Large crowds of retail professionals at the registration lounge, waiting for opening of the trade show floor.
fair profile
location: Amsterdam RAI Exhibition Centresurface: 87,000 sqm, 11 halls (used entirely!)exhibitors: 21,000 from 70 countriessections: only divided in food and non-food
dates: Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25.05.2016
most exhibitors participated in regional or country pavilions*:
country no. of exhibitors / organizerAustria 53 / Austrian Federal Economic ChamberBelgium 43 / Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency 85 / Flanders Investment and TradeBulgaria 16 / individual exhibitorsCroatia 11, including Agrokor / Croatian Chamber of EconomyGreece 39, including Kri KriHungary 23 / Hungarian Investment and Trade AgencyLatvia 9 / Union of Latvian Fish Processing IndustryPoland 112 / Ministry of Agriculture; Region Eastern PolandSerbia 13 / Serbia Investment & Export Promotion Agency
Bulgaria was present with 16 exhibitors, but like the four exhibitors from Macedonia, all participated individually.
Massively present countries were France (140 exhibitors), Germa-ny (347), Italy (238) and Spain (129). China was present with 61 exhibitors in the non-food section and 10 in the food section. There were 51 exhibitors from South Korea.
Several companies, like toilet paper producers Paloma from Slove-nia, Harmony Slovakia and Hero, Remia and United Coffee from the Netherlands have large individual stands every year.
From Kosovo, producer of wet wipes Bibita was exhibiting in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2015 also coffee producer Devolli joined.
From Macedonia Hina Products, Konimex (Koro), Magroni (Dobra Voda), Makprogres (Vincinni), Multihem, Rudine and Vitalia were exhibiting at the Macedonia pavilion in 2015, whereas Viaprom and Vivaks exhibited individually.
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* data from the 2013 edition
World Private Labelproduct groups
• food shelf stable, fresh, frozen• beverages only a few exhibitors in beer, wine and liquers• health & beauty products• pet products• household products• houseware, do-it-yourself• packaging & design
The next edition of World of Private Label takes place at Amsterdam RAI on 24 and 25 May 2016.Also for Macedonian compa-nies this fair is the place to be for meeting retai lers from all over the world.Various companies from Mace-donia (see the list on the left) have experience with this fair at which Vitalia participated al-ready six times.www.dobravoda.com.mk
www.hinaproducts.mk
www.konimex.com.mk
www.multihem.com
www.vigo.com.mk
www.vitalia.com.mk
exhibitors
www.intermak.com.mk
www.makprogres.com.mk
www.viaprom.com.mk
pictures PLMA 2015:
nl.mk/PLMA2015
The Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1979 to promote private label.
PLMA represents more than 3,500 member companies around the globe, ranging from multinatio nal corpora-tions to small family-owned companies; both private la-bel specialists and well-known brand makers who also have private label operations.
Their products include food, beve rages, snacks, health and beauty, household and kitch-en, DIY, and personal and lei-sure products.
PLMA offers three annual trade shows in Amster dam, Chicago and Shanghai.
PLMAExecutiveOffices630 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10017t: +1 212 9723131f: +1 212 9831382e: [email protected]
PLMAAmsterdamOfficeStrawinskylaan 6711077 XX Amsterdamt: +31 20 5753032f: +31 20 5753093e: [email protected]
w: www.plmainternational.com
Serbian country pavilion clearly visible in the middle of the RAI Europa hall, organized by the Serbia Investment & Promotion Agency.
Croatian pavilion by the Chamber of Commerce.One of the Polish pavilions by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Latvian sector pavilion by the Union of Latvian Fish Processing Indus-try. Lithuanian pavilion by the Lithuanian Food Exporters Association.
Portugese pavilion by association Portugal Foods. Wallonian section by the Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency.
French section by Centreco, SPPL and UbiFrance.Swiss section by Switzerland Global Enterprise (former OSEC).
Korean pavilion in food by the Korean Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation. Korean pavilion in non-food by GSBC, KITA and Kotra.
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