Africa Food Manufacturing celebrated its 10 Edition in Egypt with AladdinB2B on board

Event Type: Food Manufacturing & Equipment
Location: EIEC, Egypt 21-31 MAY 2022
Industry: Food & Beverage
Organizer: Informa Markets

AladdinB2B recently had the opportunity to expand its clientele through the new partnership with Informa’s Egypt branch, through its Africa Food Manufacturing (AFM) exhibition, the region’s trade HUB for leading entities in the food value chain.

The AFM event was held in Egypt and was celebrating its 10th anniversary bringing together two different events: Food Ingredients Africa and Propak MENA, two of the leading brands in food ingredients, packaging and processing.

This year’s highlight was introducing a high-level hosted buyers and B2B matchmaking & meeting program organized by the AladdinB2B team. This initiative aimed to attract key buyers from Africa to Egypt, seeking to meet with exhibitors on the show oor at AFM to enable new business relationships leading to enhanced sales and new partnerships.

Furthermore, to supervise that on-site operation was taking place smoothly, and to guarantee the highest results in meetings, our Aladdin Dubai-based team ew to Egypt to bring their matchmaking expertise.

The challenge: Building trust with Informa Markets Egypt
With decision-makers coming from ve different regions namely Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, the team had to up their efforts to meet the high criteria and expectations of those buyers traveling to Egypt. Accordingly, hosted buyers received the ultimate VIP treatment, involving dedicated agents to guide them through the business matchmaking journey, personalized match lists for qualied and pre-targeted networking, and highly qualied meetings to meet their unique requirements. Having both parties, the hosted buyers as well as the exhibitors, shortlist and select their meeting counterparts and identify potential business through the alignment of objectives enabled Aladdin to create qualied meetings that were highly targeted and mutually approved.
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Furthermore, the majority of the event attendees were Arabic speakers. This was not an issue for the AladdinB2B team as our representatives are uent in multiple languages including but not limited to Arabic, English, Spanish and Urdu. Translators were readily available on-site if needed during the meetings.
“The matchmaking program for our exhibition is an integral part of the offering we do for exhibitors and visitors, it provides added value for both parties and helps with closing more deals on a larger scale. AladdinB2B has helped much with this, they were covering everything from scratch. The process was awless, the team on-ground was very responsive, and everything was covered perfectly.”
Kareem Emara,
Senior Marketing Manager at Informa Markets
Result

The results acquired by the AladdinB2B were exceptional! We smashed through the quota of targeted meetings required and achieved 110% of what was originally decided.

The hosted buyers programs saw a variety of individuals with senior qualifications such as General Managers, Heads of Innovation and Quality, as well as CEOs and Managing Directors. These decision-makers were matched with 31 exhibitors participating in the exclusive Buyers Program through our in-house technology, the AladdinB2B app.

Major credit for this success goes to the Aladdin on the ground team, who provided excellent management skills by assisting participants in finding our VIP lounge, reminding them about their meetings, solving issues with the app and providing daily feedback to the organizers.

The AFM exhibition ultimately allowed for the development of trust for a long-term relationship with the event organizers, Informa Markets. Therefore, we are excited about more upcoming projects with them!
Kareem Emara,
Senior Marketing Manager at Informa Markets
“I believe with Aladdinb2b on board, the ROI of exhibitors and visitors both increased dramatically because we had very positive feedback from the people participating in the matchmaking and Hosted Buyers program”

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