Wine&SpiritsAsia - Press Release 15th August

Wine&SpiritsAsia, an international exhibition of wine, spirits and beer, serves to bridge leading wine and spirits buyers with prominent international sellers. The FHA2008 Wine&SpiritsAsia Challenge, where wine entries will be judged by influential wine connoisseurs, strives to raise the knowledge, prestige and commercial value of winning wines to the world. Also running beside Wine&SpiritsAsia2008 is the Wine Diploma Course, where participants can study professional wine tasting skills and acquire wine and food pairing knowledge from renowned wine masters.

"The importance of Food&HotelAsia as the leading marketplace for F&B professionals has been remarkably underlined, and we look forward to build on the success of each individual specialised event to broaden its appeal to new and existing exhibitors and trade buyers," said Ms. Ting Siew Mui, Singapore Exhibition Services's Project Director (Lifestyle Events) for FHA.

FHA, Asia's largest international biennial F&B and hospitality trade event, offers a comprehensive spectrum of the latest products and technology for the food and hospitality industries. Visitors from all over the world will congregate at FHA to network with over 37, 000 international buyers from the F&B trade to gather information and source for the latest F&B and hospitality products and services from over 2, 800 exhibiting companies under one show.

FHA's specialised events encompass all the significant sectors of the F&B and hospitality industry, namely FoodAsia, Wine&SpiritsAsia, Bakery&Pastry, HotelAsia, HospitalityTechnology and HospitalityStyleAsia. Each event is specially tailored for the increasing sophisticated needs of the F&B and hospitality industry.

In 2006, FHA featured over 2,330 exhibiting companies from 69 countries and 36 group pavilions and attracted over 36,000 international trade buyers and 50 buyer delegations from 15 countries. FHA2006 recently beat strong competition to triumph in the Exhibition of The Year category of the first Singapore Business Events Awards (SBEA) organised by the Singapore Exhibition and Convention Bureau (SECB) of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). Singapore Exhibition Services (SES), organiser of FHA2006, was conferred the award at the SBEA 2006 awards ceremony held on 2 August 2007.