Exhibitions & Trade Fairs

Be part of Africa´s biggest and most important international exhibition & conference dedicated to leather, accessories, components, synthetics and models for footwear, leather goods, automotive and furniture. Meet African and international industry players, explore partnerships and business opportunities to build long-term partnerships. Be a member of decision makers of the sector. Meet over 200 manufacturers and distributors of the leather & leather fashion value chain from around the world, who will meet your business needs. Find the latest products and solutions on the market, covering the entire leather and fashion lifecycle. Continuous update of know-how is key to develop your career and to keep your knowledge up-to-date. Join professional workshops and high-level conference sessions on topics covering all disciplines in the leather industry. Meet with amazing African designers who create high end fashion for the entire world market. Create, partner with African counterparts and enjoy the creativity of international “Fashion made in Africa”. AALF is known for a platform where African leather fashion news are made and spread to the world. Be part and the success story and enjoy being mentioned on top level. Have an impression of high end African leather & footwear factories.  AALF, in collaboration with Ethiopian Investment Commission and IPDC, also organizes tours to state of the art factories for international delegations. Seats are free but limited.  

analytica Lab Africa is the only trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics in South Africa. The show features both local and international market leaders, addressing visitors in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. analytica Lab Africa provides a comprehensive overview of the entire range of topics that pertain to laboratories in research and industry across a wide range of sectors We have created a uniquely co-located trade show, designed to spark knowledge transfer, showcase global trends and solutions to Africa’s challenges, catalyze business and facilitate introductions that support collaboration and economic growth. Our exhibitors, visitors, supporters, sponsors, and staff are what makes our brands and exhibitions a success. Messe Muenchen South Africa ensures that our key aim and focus is to ensure the safety, security and wellbeing of all involved in our events.

Africa’s Big 7 continues to be the leading trade exhibition where agents, distributors, retailers meet to shape the food and beverage industry in Africa. It is truly an international event where 67 countries gather to network and forge relationships successfully. For the 23rd edition, Africa’s Big 7 will continue to deliver local and international f&b retail-ready products to the African market. Now entering its 19th edition, Africa’s Big 7 is the continent’s largest annual meeting place for the food and beverage industry, where buyers, retailers and distributors from across Africa’s diverse and booming market come to source new ingredients, finished products and find the latest processing, packaging and logistics solutions. Africa’s Big 7 connects thousands of local, regional and international partners throughout the value chain and delivers tangible opportunities to its exhibitors. GENERATE BUSINESS LEADS FROM AFRICA Meet thousands of buyers and decision makers from the region’s capital and consumer sectors POSITION YOUR COMPANY Capitalise on a US$1 trillion consumer market in Africa with fruitful trade partnerships ESTABLISH A ROUTE TO THE AFRICAN MARKET Meet potential buyers, distributors, partners and agents that can help you sell into African markets ENGAGE WITH KEY INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS Meet senior decision makers, face-to-face, from public and private sectors

West Africa Automotive Show (WAAS) is an event dedicated to the West African automotive industry. It will showcase the range of vehicle parts and accessories needed to keep cars, trucks, buses, motorbikes and commercial vehicles on Nigeria and West Africa’s roads. The event will bring together suppliers, dealers, and manufacturers with all those involved in automotive maintenance, repair and vehicle enhancement. Nigeria has seen double digit growth in demand for car parts over the past five years, as a result of the high number of older cars on the road. Over 60% of cars on Nigeria’s roads are more than 12 years old, but only 11% are under five years old. Used cars outnumber new cars by 131 to 1 on the road. Being part of West Africa Automotive Show will give you an opportunity to find the key contacts, importers, wholesalers in the industry, make the right deals and see the innovation coming into the sector. West Africa Automotive Show is organised by BtoB Events. Our team brings together the expertise behind the launches of the world’s largest specialist exhibitions, and has a wealth of experience of exhibiting in Nigeria and West Africa. Across Nigeria, the spare parts market is seen as a vital business, with individual states supporting the development of specific sites for spare parts traders and automotive/motor mechanic businesses. But the sector is also being boosted by new technology, creating a growing online marketplace. AFRICA AUTO MARKET With national policy encouraging greater car assembly within Nigeria, as well as increasing the tariffs on imports, all these factors demonstrate that the vehicle parts business in Nigeria is going to keep on growing. BtoB Events is a dynamic exhibition organiser - Founded by a former divisional director for Africa of a FTSE 100 organisation within the exhibitions field. BtoB Events are responsible for one of the largest portfolios of exhibitions across the West African market covering industries such as Auto-parts, Medical, Food and Beverage and Beauty. Hosting over 500 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees annually.

Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit is Africa’s premier food safety, regulatory policy, quality and laboratory management conference and exhibition. The industry focused Summit brings together regional and global experts and stakeholders to discover the latest trends in science and technology, regulations, standards, compliance, operations and sustainable adoption of safe and efficient safety, quality and management practices in the entire agriculture, food and pharmaceutical value chain in Africa. The Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit is the ultimate premium conference and exhibition that brings together the key stakeholders from Africa and the World to focus on the latest food safety, regulatory, quality and laboratory management technologies in Africa. The Summit is aimed at professional knowledge sharing and networking between the key stakeholders and brings together African and global experts to address the most important issues in the food safety space in Africa and identify the most appropriate practices and technologies, legislations and standards. The Summit is structured in a number of plenary sessions, panel discussions, fireside chats, break-out sessions and people-focused networking sessions that provide the delegates the best opportunities to discover the latest technology and meet peers and industry leaders in the right environment. Who Attends Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit? Stakeholders with the following responsibilities in the private and public sector, Government, academia and research institutions and NGOs/development agencies/embassies and consulates will find the Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit a must-attend event: Managing Director, Chairman, Director, General Manager Quality Assurance & Quality Control Directors, Managers & Analysts Food & Pharmaceutical Drugs Retailing, Distribution and Vending Managers Factory, Production, Operations & Process Directors, Managers & Supervisors Food Catering & Restaurant Managers & Supervisors Sanitation, Hygiene & Environment Directors & Managers Food Safety Directors, Managers, Inspectors, Audit Managers, Assessors & Analysts Food & Drug Legislation Managers & Officers Public Health Management Directors, Managers & Officers Packhouse Manager Mill Managers, Dairy Managers & Technologists, Bakery Managers & Food Technologists Health & Safety Directors, Managers & Supervisors Compliance, Risk Management & Risk Communications Directors, Managers & Officers Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Directors, Managers & Analysts Engineering Directors, Managers & Supervisors Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Directors, Managers & Technologists Chef, Food & Beverage Managers & Camp Managers Laboratory Managers & Technologists Quality Systems Management and Implementation Managers Chemists & Microbiologists Animal Nutritionist; Animal Feed Factory Manager Chief of Party & Project Managers Research & New Product Development Managers & Supervisors Supply Chain, Procurement & Logistics Directors & Managers Warehousing, Stores, Distribution & Transport Managers & Supervisors Export & Import Managers & Trade Officers Hospital Directors & Managers Buyers, Commodity Traders, Graders and Analysts Agribusiness & Farm Managers; Agronomists & Extension Officers Investment Managers & Analysts Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Crop Directors, Managers & Officers Business Development, Marketing & Sales Directors & Managers Food safety remains one of the World’s biggest challenge, in many ways standing in the way of the countries to feed rising populations, hindering economic growth and affecting regional and international trade – especially in Africa. According to the World Bank, productivity losses at the global level associated with food-borne diseases in low and middle-income countries is estimated to cost US$95.2 billion per year, and the annual cost of treating food-borne illnesses is estimated at US$15 billion, with the overall public health and domestic economic costs of unsafe food at 20 times the trade related costs for developing countries. In a Continent with the heaviest food safety burden, World Health Organization (WHO) places the global health burden of food-borne disease on par with HIV/AIDS, TB, or malaria, or an estimated 137,000 lives every year in Africa. Attending the Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit opens new perspectives on the future of food safety in Africa, better than any other event in Africa. You can not afford to miss attending Africa’s most impactful food safety event.