UBIFRANCE launches its virtual trade show

FRANCE: UBIFRANCE is becoming the online reference for French export by organizing operations and events through its 63 offices located in 44 countries, along with the support initiatives of its partners to promote the development of French companies worldwide. UBIFRANCE aims to facilitate the access to foreign markets for French businesses by giving them the opportunity of increasing their exposure and generating business contacts with prospective foreign customers.

UBIFRANCE's virtual tradeshow consists of five pavilions representing the following sectors:

- Fashion, Home Décor, Health Sciences
- Infrastructure, Transport and Industry
- Food, Beverages and Agricultural Equipment
- New Technologies and Services
- And a UBIFRANCE pavilion

This virtual tradeshow aims to provide much more visibility to all of UBIFRANCE’s physical trade shows. This unique platform plays host to a number of events with visitors having 24/7 access to live or pre-recorded conferences, B-to-B meetings, live broadcasts of highlights, video chats, etc., as well as to the booths set up by the companies, UBIFRANCE and its partners. Brochures and contact information will be available for download at these booths. All these events featured on www.ubifrance-events24.com will be individually promoted by UBIFRANCE inorder to generate targeted and qualified traffic with respect to their sector of activity.

UBIFRANCE's Virtual Trade Show shall be inaugurated with the following events:

The Nord-Pas-de-Calais’s “International Week”: discover what makes the region so attractive for business or leisure thanks to the complete program of conferences, workshops and contests. Over 400 visitors, coming from all around the world, are expected for the occasion.

The « SoFrenchSoGood » Event: come and immerse yourself in years of culinary traditions. This year, France launched a new international campaign to promote its savory French regional products worldwide and will reveal secrets dishes and recipes. Online tools are also to be developed to provide any French food lover worldwide with French restaurants locations and tips are already available for Madrid, Barcelona and Shanghai.

With over 160 booths, the virtual trade show will be a unique gateway to French companies, from all industries: it will be the opportunity to meet with top industry players as well as new and innovative companies. Among them will be the companies present at the Hanover Messe 2011 - the European tradeshow for industrial technologies, or at the French Tech Tour – the High Tech event in the Silicon Valley, as well as the French/Nigerian delegation and other famous events.