The frozen food and beverage industry’s premiere business networking convention takes place this March 3-6 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Annually attended by over 1,500 industry professionals, AFFI-CON brings together processors, logistics providers, suppliers, retailers and foodservice distributors and operators from all sectors of the frozen food and beverage industry to conduct meetings and learn about key industry issues.
“Food Export, in conjunction with AFFI, will conduct a Frozen Food Buyers Mission at AFFI-CON 2018. This is the perfect opportunity for suppliers of product with at least 50 percent U.S. agricultural origin to meet qualified buyers from around the world. These buyers of frozen food represent retailers, wholesalers, distributors and foodservice,” the organizers
Topics discussed this year at the event include The Modern Frozen Consumer by the Numbers by Gregory Hobby, vice president Emerging Brands at SPINS and Big Data and Analytics Come to Frozen Manufacturing by Timothy Freier, Division vice president, Scientific Affairs & Microbiology, Mérieux NutriSciences. Also, the convention will host the Frozen Food Institute’s annual meeting and industry spotlight on the state of food retail and what it means for frozen, presented by Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, Food Marketing Institute.
