Sponsorship & Exhibition open for AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo occasions in Africa 2025 | Meals Enterprise Africa

AFRICA – FW Africa, the organiser of Africa’s longest-running meals expos, has formally opened sponsorship and exhibition alternatives for the 2025 AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo editions.  

The 2025 AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expos, set to happen in Uganda, Nairobi, and Nigeria, present an important platform for {industry} gamers to showcase their improvements and have interaction with key stakeholders throughout the continent. 

These expos supply exhibitors a dynamic atmosphere to introduce new merchandise and broaden networks inside the meals manufacturing and hospitality sectors.

In earlier editions, worldwide and regional producers and distributors have leveraged the AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo to advance their enterprise aims and acquire vital advantages. Contributors span a variety of industries, together with:

– Advantageous Elements & Meals Commodities

– Storage, Chilly Chain & Provide Chain Options

– Meals & Beverage Processing & Packaging Applied sciences

– Milling, Baking, Animal Feed & Snack Processing & Packaging Applied sciences

– Recent & Packaged Meals & Beverage Merchandise

– Laboratory Gear, Meals Testing & Compliance Providers

– Renewable Vitality & Utilities

– Monetary, HR, Coaching, Consultancy & Different Providers

– Engineering & Automation Applied sciences

Sponsors additionally acquire a variety of unique advantages, corresponding to precedence talking slots on the AFMASS Innovation Convention, outstanding branding on digital and print platforms, and focused promoting alternatives by FW Africa’s meals industry-focused magazines and web sites.

“Sponsoring the AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo is a positive solution to get your organization and model the eye they deserve earlier than, throughout, and after the occasion,” Francis Juma, CEO and Founding father of FW Africa, emphasised. 

The AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo has additionally strongly supported native startups. In 2024, over ten startups, together with Mama’s Gold, Naija Kitchens, and Afyalishe Wellness, showcased their improvements on the Sarit Expo Centre, underlining the occasion’s function in selling rising companies.

AFMASS debuts in Uganda 

The upcoming Uganda version, scheduled for February 11 to 13, 2025, on the Africana Lodge in Kampala, will mark the inaugural Uganda and Nice Lakes Area of Africa Version of the AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo.

Co-located with the AFMASS Lodge & Hospitality Expo, this occasion may even cater to the Meals Service, Lodge, and Hospitality industries.

With greater than 4,500 guests anticipated in 2025, the Uganda version presents a main alternative for individuals to attach with {industry} leaders and traders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and past. 

It goals to foster innovation, collaboration, and development in a area poised for vital enlargement, with its inhabitants projected to surpass 600 million by 2040.

This occasion joins the established lineup of the pan-African commerce exhibits, already held in Kenya (since 2015), Zambia (since 2017), Tanzania (since 2018), and set to debut in Nigeria in 2025.

“The Nice Lakes area of Africa gives one of many best-emerging alternatives within the meals {industry}, pushed by the area’s sturdy development in agricultural manufacturing of important commodities, that are facilitating investments in meals storage, manufacturing, and retail for native, regional, and international markets” the organisers commented on their selection of Uganda as the subsequent host vacation spot. 

Kenya to host its ninth instalment 

Nairobi, Kenya, will host the ninth instalment of the AFMASS Manufacturing Expo Kenya and Jap Africa Version from July 2 to 4, 2025, on the Sarit Expo Centre, a outstanding venue for expos and conferences within the capital. 

The eighth version, held in 2024 on the identical venue, attracted almost 4,000 attendees and over 70 exhibitors from varied industries, together with meals processing and packaging. 

Outstanding corporations corresponding to Buhler Group, Freddy Hirsch Group, ABSA Financial institution Group, and Capwell Industries participated as sponsors, underscoring the occasion’s potential to attract regional and international gamers.

Identical to in Uganda, the Kenyan version in 2025 can be co-located with the AFMASS Lodge & Hospitality Expo. 

Moreover, the Kenya version may even introduce a brand new commerce present: the Africa House & Private Care Expo. This occasion will convey collectively producers, distributors, retailers, and suppliers of latest applied sciences that form the way forward for Africa’s magnificence, house, and private care industries and past.

“Africa’s rising variety of households, rising disposable revenue, youth inhabitants, urbanisation, and elevated buying energy are anticipated to drive demand for regionally manufactured and imported magnificence, private, and residential care merchandise,” the organisers defined, highlighting the present’s significance at AFMASS.

In response to Statista, the House & Laundry Care market in Africa is projected to generate US$17.4 billion in income in 2024, with laundry care accounting for US$9.28 billion. This market is predicted to develop at a compound annual development fee (CAGR) of 4.98% by 2029. 

In the meantime, Africa’s Magnificence & Private Care market is projected to succeed in US$65.93 billion in 2024, with the Private Care section accounting for US$31.23 billion and an anticipated CAGR of 5.99% by 2028.

AFMASS explores West Africa  

The AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo Nigeria & Western Africa Version is ready to happen from October 14 to 16, 2025, in Lagos, Nigeria, with the venue but to be confirmed. 

This pioneer occasion will appeal to over 5,000 attendees from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Senegal, and different international locations inside the Financial Neighborhood of Western African States (ECOWAS) and the Financial and Financial Neighborhood of Central Africa (CEMAC).

In response to IMARC Group, a number one market analysis firm,  the West African meals providers market reached a price of US$5.8 billion in 2023 and is projected to develop to US$10.9 billion by 2032 at a compound annual development fee (CAGR) of seven.28% between 2024 and 2032. 

This fast development is predicted to drive elevated funding within the area’s meals {industry}, motivating FW Africa to launch a West African version of its profitable AFMASS Meals Manufacturing Expo.

Much like the Kenyan version, this occasion may even host the Africa House & Private Care Expo, which is able to present a platform for gamers within the magnificence, private care, and residential care industries to showcase their improvements, in addition to the AFMASS Lodge & Hospitality Expo.

FW Africa invitations corporations to discover the assorted exhibition packages on their web site.