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- Colombian products in SIAL, one of the most important food fairs in the world
- PROCOLOMBIA in the Softic business round
- Press from Canada, United Kingdom, and the U.S. will be at Colombia 3.0
- Business encounter for products related to the electrical sector in Peru
- Five flower companies in a business round in Miami
- Tourism: training week in Germany
- Airlines and tourism companies will promote themselves in Brazil
- Colombian swimwear in the Shanghai fair
- Colombian apparel at Dominicana Moda
- Investment and tourism seminar in Jamaica
- PROCOLOMBIA will train staff from Copa Airlines
- 50 Chilean travel agents will get trained in tourism in Colombia
- Incentive travel: Companies from Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Panama explore Medellin
Colombian products in SIAL, one of the most important food fairs in the world
1. Colombian products will be exhibited in international and frozen food pavilions. The public at the fair will get acknowledged with with the offering of 13 Colombian companies that sell fruit pulp and concentrates, pre-cooked frozen food, candy, sauces, stevia, instant beverages, sugar and corn meal. Specialized chefs will prepare recipes with ingredients that will be exhibited during the fair. The ambassadors from countries of the Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile) will open the two stands that will carry the logo of this commercial block for the first time.
Date: October 21st through 25th.
Place: Paris Nord Villepinte. Paris, France.
Website: http://www.proexport.com.co/agribusiness/sial-paris-2012
Link to the fair's website: http://www.sialparis.com/Index-SIAL-2012
PROCOLOMBIA in the Softic business round
2. The 2012 Softic business round will have the participation of Colombian software development companies, and buyers from 14 countries. The purpose of this event is to promote the export offering of Colombian Software and Information Technology. It is organized by PROCOLOMBIA, the Colombian Federation of Software and Information Technology and the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.
Date: October 25th and 26th.
Place: Bogota, Colombia.
Website: http://www.softic.com.co/
Press from Canada, United Kingdom, and the U.S. will be at Colombia 3.0
3. Four journalists from the specialized media Supply Chain Europe (United Kingdom) PC World-Techhive and NBC Universal (U.S.A.) and IT World (Canada) will cover Colombia 3.0 to get to know the potential of Colombian companies in the development of digital content. PROCOLOMBIA has identified business opportunities in these three countries.
Date: October 23rd through 27th.
Place: Bogota, Colombia.
Business encounter for products related to the electrical sector in Peru
4. Eleven Colombians will attend this business round in search of creating a space to meet with 20 Peruvian specialized buyers, such as distributors and sellers of electrical material, and electric power companies, among others. Seven companies from Antioquia, three from the Coffee Triangle, and one from Bogotá will participate. This is the first time that PROCOLOMBIA organizes and meeting of this nature in that country.
Date: October 24th
Place: Lima, Peru
Website: http://www.proexport.com.co/docs/es/boletin/2012/mercadeo/conexionColom…
Five flower companies in a business round in Miami
5. They will attend the Annual WFFSA Flower Distribution Conference that will gather wholesalers, producers, vendors and logistics and transportation companies. This encounter is held every fall in Florida, and is considered as the national flower logistics center. In 2011, 730 people participated.
Date: October 24th through 26th.
Place: Miami, Florida.
Website: http://www.wffsa.org/aws/WFFSA/pt/sp/floraconference
Tourism: training week in Germany
6. In order to position Colombia as a tourist destination for Germans, PROCOLOMBIA has scheduled a series of training sessions with travel agents from Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich and Berlin. They will have assistance, promotional material and in alliance with Avianca, they will get to now the services that this airline offers.
Date: October 22nd through 25th.
Place: Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich and Berlín.
Airlines and tourism companies will promote themselves in Brazil
7. Two airlines three regions and 18 businessmen in Cartagena, Bogota, San Andres and the Coffee Triangle with the support of PROCOLOMBIA, will attend the ABAV Tourism Fair of the Americas, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro. This is one of the most important in the continent for gathering wholesalers, and businessmen and women in the sector from 40 countries. The entity will have a 250 mt2 stand.
Date: October 24th
Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Website: http://www.feiradasamericas.com.br/
Colombian swimwear in the Shanghai fair
8. A Colombian company, supported by PROCOLOMBIA, will be in charge of presenting the country's potential in the design and production of swimwear at Shanghai Mode Lingerie. This fair gathers important entrepreneurs from the Asian market, where the entity has identified a potential for these products. This fair is visited by approximately 10,000 visitors and gathers buyers from Japan, South Korea, U.S.A, France and Russia, among others.
Date: October 22nd and 23rd.
Place: Shanghai Exhibition Center
Website: www.shanghai-mode-lingerie.com
Colombian apparel at Dominicana Moda
9. PROCOLOMBIA will participate in Dominicana Moda, a fair that gathers the best brands and designers of the Caribbean country. With the support of PROCOLOMBIA, 16 Colombian companies will participate to exhibit their proposals and designs. Dominicana Moda has become the most important fashion platform and the Official Dominican Republic Fashion Week. Over 70 firms of designers and Dominican brands and international brands gather each year for this encounter.
Date: October 22nd through 27th
Place: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo.
Website: http://www.dominicanamoda.com/
Investment and tourism seminar in Jamaica
10. The event has the objective of exhibiting Colombia's potential as product and service provider and international tourism and foreign investment destination for 150 guest companies
Date: October 25th and 26th.
Place: Jamaica.
PROCOLOMBIA will train staff from Copa Airlines
11. The Copa Airlines sales force and the main wholesalers from Lima will get to see the Colombian tourist offering in detail, to reinforce their knowledge about the country, which is essential for the promotion of Colombia as an world class destination.
Date: October 24th
Place: Lima, Peru.
50 Chilean travel agents will get trained in tourism in Colombia
12. PROCOLOMBIA will present the tourist offering of the country before 50 Viajes Cocha agents, including those appealing for Chilean tourists around nature, history and culture, capital cities, fairs and festivities, shopping and wellbeing. A coffee tasting activity will take place as a promotion of the Coffee Triangle as destination.
Date: October 24th Place: Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Incentive travel: Companies from Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Panama explore Medellin
13. During this week Medellin will receive entrepreneurs that will get to see the tourist offering the city has as incentive travel destination.
Ecuador
Date: October 23rd through 25th.
The sales team at companies Metropolitan Touring, Salmor and Polimundo. This familiarization trip is organized together with LAN.
Mexico
Date: October 23rd through 25th.
Wholesalers and incentive companies will get to see the capital of Antioquia for three days. This activity is organized together with Copa.
Puerto Rico
Date: October 24th through 27th.
The visit of several entrepreneurs from this country to Medellin, intends to make this city a travel destination in 2013, for V. Suarez, one of the largest food distribution companies in Puerto Rico.
Panama and Puerto Rico
Date: October 26th through 28th.
Event organizing companies will travel to position Medellin as a destination for meetings and incentives. This activity is done in alliance with Copa.
