Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) Acting President Vincent U U Sang said that as of 4 p.m. yesterday the three-day 2022 Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair (2022GMBPF), which kicked off on Friday under the theme of “semi-finished food”, recorded over 63,000 person-times and facilitated more than 140 business negotiations online and offline.
U talked to the media at the Venetian in Cotai.
U pointed out that among the 60 exhibitors related to the “semi-finished food” theme, 37 mainland enterprises had negotiated agency and cooperation deals with their local counterparts to enter the local retail market, such as two Portuguese catering companies that during the fair launched cooperation arrangements with “semi-finished food” manufacturers in the mainland.
U said that local exhibitors from Macau and Guangdong had been “more active” this year, adding that their sales “were better than expected”, pointing out that 33 out of the 155 exhibitors from Guangdong had already sold more than 90 percent of their products on Saturday, and eight of them had sold all their goods by then.
Guangdong Restaurant Association Vice President Jason Long Tianxiang told reporters yesterday that this was the first time that the association had invited several “semi-finished food” enterprises from the mainland to participate in the expo.
Long also said that sales at the expo “were better than I expected”, adding he hoped that his association could bring more mainland enterprises to participate in next year’s expo.
Long said that he would strive to promote more Macau speciality catering products to enter the mainland market, adding he believed that local dishes, such as bacalhau, curry and oxtail, could be developed into semi-finished food.
Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) Acting President Vincent U U Sang talks to the media yesterday during the Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair at the Venetian in Cotai. – Photo: Yuki Lei
