lunch! – the leading trade event for the food-to-go market – is now just 12 stands away from selling out of all of its available exhibition space at the three-floor Business Design Centre in Islington, London. With the Innovation Zone now full, plus all stands across the ground and middle level also booked up, visitors to lunch! 2013, on 26-27 September, will benefit from the show’s biggest choice of exhibitors ever.
4,500 buyers to connect with 270 exhibitors
The multi-award-winning two day event is poised to connect more than 4,500 out of home food and drink buyers with an unprecedented 270 companies showcasing a wealth of new products, packaging, equipment and technologies. lunch’s pivotal focus on innovation – highlighted by popular visitor feature areas like the lunch! Innovation Zone and Innovation Challenge Showcase – has made it a popular choice with buying teams from across the retailing, hospitality, snacking and catering sectors (visitor pre-registration is now over 25% ahead of the same time last year) looking to discover new trends and suppliers for their stores and eateries.
Quality and variety are key growth drivers in the UK’s £14.9bn lunch market
“I think lunch! is the premier place for food retailers to get an insight into all the food innovation that is happening across the country. It also gives small businesses a chance to show their wares to a captive market,” comments retail consultant (and former managing director of Pret A Manger) Andrew Walker, who will be making his exhibiting debut with handmade pudding specialist Pots & Co in this year’s Innovation Zone.
“As MD of Pret, I was a frequent visitor with the food and buying teams to keep abreast of developments and to spark creative thinking,” says Walker, “and as an independent manufacturer of innovative food solutions this could not be a better showcase for our products.”
According to key findings in its 2012 ‘Ones to Watch’ report, foodservice consultancy Horizons says when it comes to food-to-go – high quality and wide variety are key growth drivers in the UK’s £14.9bn lunch market. And lunch!’s eclectic menu of Innovation Zone exhibitors certainly offers plenty of both.
Lunch! 2013
Full of innovation and energy, exciting, essential and enjoyable – that’s the reaction from last year’s successful fifth anniversary edition, which attracted record attendance of 4,403 across two action-packed days. lunch! 2013 promises more of the same, when it returns to the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, on 26-27 September 2013.
For further information and to register for a free trade pass, visit www.lunchshow.co.uk and use priority code LUNPR2 where prompted.