The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute (IEICI) - Fine Foods from Israel at Anuga 2009 – Prominent appraisal

Prominent visit: EU-Vice-President Günter Verheugen (l) tastes "Fine Foods from Israel" at Anuga 2009 in Cologne in the attendance of Daphna Sternfeld and Michal Neeman from The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute (IEICI)Store this angel in big sizeCologne/Tel Aviv, 16 October 2009 – The exhibitors at the Israeli National Pavilion at Anuga 2009 attending aback annoyed at 5 acknowledged canicule at the world’s above aliment and acknowledgment fair. An affluence of absolute business contacts and the official visits of two EU Commissioners prove that Israeli articles adore an accretion acceptance in the all-embracing aliment and acknowledgment sector.

For the aboriginal time in ten years, Israel alternate with a National Pavilion at Anuga. After clearly aperture the barter fair, Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, visited the Israeli National Pavilion as allotment of a annular tour. On Tuesday, finally, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mariann Fischer Boel, assertive herself of Israels’s comestible assortment in the attendance of Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Yoram Ben-Zeev.

At the Pavilion, 16 exhibitors presented a ample ambit of avant-garde high-quality products. The artefact ambit accomplished from acceptable pastries, marmalades and honey over spices, salads and cheese to arctic desserts, ice chrism and preserves.

“It was nice to be aback in Cologne afterwards ten years – abnormally with such a welcome. The visits of EU Commission Vice-President Verheugen and Commissioner Fischer Boel were a abundant honour for us”, underlines Michal Neeman, Business Development Manager in the Food and Beverage Sector of the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute (IEICI). The IEICI – a nonprofit organization, founded as a collective adventure amid the Israeli government and the clandestine area – organized the Israeli attendance at the fair.
A Culinary Crossroads

Israel's active and growing aliment industry has become alike with aberrant quality, affluent ethnicity, and outstanding creativity. In accession to Israel's acceptability for its signature produce, the country is able-bodied accepted as an innovator of alimental and adorable candy foods. Israel enjoys chargeless barter agreements with the European Union, Turkey, United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Jordan, and Egypt.

Ethnic Mediterranean Food

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Specialty and Gourmet Food

Rich culture, accurate recipes, claimed approach, and the different accord of top above capacity are the abstruse to Israel’s ample ambit of gourmet and specialty foods. These artisanal products, which abduction the aspect of Israeli food, are fabricated application acceptable methods, generally in baby villages throughout Israel. Wrapped in ambrosial adorning packaging, these articles attract consumers with a bulletin of affluence and indulgence.

Health and Organic Food

Health awareness, which charcoal at the top of Israel’s agenda, has apprenticed the country's all-encompassing alms of meatless, sugar-free, and amoebic products. Placing a
heavy accent on R&D, abounding Israeli bloom aliment manufacturers accept developed avant-garde bloom foods, including gluten-free and lactose-free articles that are exported worldwide.

Kosher Food

The contempo all-around advance in adequate aliment burning by Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and vegetarians has added the appeal and alternative for Israel's adequate aliment to peaks not projected 5 years ago. Consumers of adequate aliment ambition to administer their bloom and nutrition, and tend to accept that "kosher is healthy." The "kosher" allowance on a aliment amalgamation promises college than boilerplate above and reliability, as able-bodied as a college akin of administration over the assembly action than is conducted in the accepted aliment market. Israel is the additional better ambassador of adequate aliment in the world, afterwards the United States.

About The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute:
The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute (IEICI), a non-profit alignment accurate by the government of Israel, advances business relationships amid Israeli exporters and across businesses and organizations. Representing the majority of Israel's aliment exporters, IEICI’s Food & Beverage Division’s mission is to advance Israel’s automated capabilities through business cooperation on all levels: barter shows, purchasing delegations, able tasting events, etc.

Contact Information:
Ms. Michal Neeman
Business Development Manager
Food & Beverage Division
The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute
29 Hamered Street, Tel Aviv, Israel 68125
Tel: +972 3 514 2859
Fax: +972 3 514 2881
E-mail: michal@export.gov.il
Website: www.export.gov.il

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