Fira de Barcelona
| 2014 Report
Mexico, which took place from 3 to 5 June 2014
at the Banamex Centre in Mexico DF. More than
200 exhibitors attended the show, 40 of them
Spanish, from 21 countries, showcasing a total
of over 4,000 products. Besides Mexico and
Spain, we should also note the participation
of China, the United States, Argentina, Chile,
Thailand, Brazil, Korea, Italy, Turkey, Japan,
Greece, Poland and Portugal, among others.
Spain was present in the ICEX Pavilion, which
brought together companies from Valencia,
Extremadura, Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha and
Castile-Leon, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, La
Rioja, Navarre, Galicia and Aragon.
The show received more than 11,000
professional visitors from the fields of food
distribution, self-service, hotels, restaurants and
catering, notable by their quality and power of
decision-making.
In addition to the trade fair, Alimentaria
Mexico was also a major centre of activities
related to food and drink, nutrition and
the latest trends.
Smart City Expo Kyoto
On 26 and 27 March 2014, the first Japanese
edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress
took place in Kyoto. The Expo is a leading
international event for smart cities, and the
Kyoto edition attracted more than 1,700
delegates from 22 countries.
Together, representatives from city
governments, experts and urban thinkers, as
well as companies engaged in developing smart
solutions, addressed the future of our cities.
The symposium was jointly organised by the
Government of the City of Kyoto and Fira de
Barcelona with the goal of promoting exchanges
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A large number
of exhibitors from
Catalonia and Spain
as a whole attended
the celebration of
Alimentaria in Mexico.
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Fira co-organised the
Qatar Motor Show,
demonstrating evident
the institution’s great
experience in staging
major international
trade fairs.
