Eu Turkey Chambers Forum

EU – TURKEY CHAMBERS FORUM

STUDY VISIT

‘INTERNATIONAL MARKETING OF AGRIFOOD”

5 - 9 MARCH 2012

v. 6– 08/02/2012

Draft programme (subject to changes)

Organising CCIs: Voka – CCI Mid-Flanders (Halle-Vilvoorde/Mechelen/Leuven) + Beci

9.00Company visit Adelantex (perishables)/Disor Frisor & Colfridis (cold chain logistics) (Londerzeel) (to be confirmed)

12.00 Visit to BrusselsAirport guided by Voka - Chamber of Commerce Halle-Vilvoorde

Lunch

Brussels Airport Company: Brussels is Europe’s favourite airport for non home-based full freighters. It ranks 4th among European cargo airports in scheduled full freighters. Brussels Airport is the most strategic location in Europe, reflected by its role as a valued European Distribution hub. An ideal location for storage, handling and shipping of high value and time sensitive products. Belgium is well known for its large scale of worldwide export and import of automotive, pharmaceuticals and perishables. BrusselsAirport and its partners provide high quality infrastructures and processes for these important market segments.

Meeting with Leuven Research and Development Feed-Food-Health (Voka - CCI Leuven)at BrusselsAirport

Leuven Research and Development: K.U.Leuven Research & Development (LRD) is the knowledge and technology transfer office (TTO)of theK.U.Leuven Association. LRD supports researchers in their interaction with industry and in the valorisation of their research results. K.U.Leuven Research & Development (LRD), in close cooperation with the city of Leuven, has created a favourable business climate for high-tech entrepreneurship. In particular, LRD is an active partner in setting up a number of networking initiatives and technology clusters, as well as in planning, setting up and exploiting incubators, science parks and business centres in the Leuven region. K.U.Leuven has also joined forces with the city of Tienen to develop a science park on the Feed Food Health campus. This will be a thematic industrial zone where only research-oriented and high-tech companies, related to the food sector in its widest meaning, can establish themselves.

15.00Departure

15.30 - 17.30Visit to cold chain logistic center of Delhaize in Zellik (guided by BECI)

The Delhaize Group, with headoffice in Brussels, exists since 140 years and is one of the worldwide leaders in food distribution through supermarkets. The group is active on 3 continents and in 7 countries : Belgium, the United States,the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, Nordrein-Westfalen (Germany), Greece, Romania and Indonesiaand has a turnover of 19 billion euro wordwide in 2008. Its innovative techniques in the cold logistics chain are remarkable.

18.30Back in Brussels (hotel)

Organising CCI: Voka - CCI West-Flanders

10.30Visit to the ‘Food hub’ in the Port of Zeebrugge:

• Welcome by the Port of Zeebrugge,
• Round trip in the port focusing on im- and export of food products.
• Visiting a food company based in the Port of Zeebrugge
• Visiting a cooled warehouse
• Lunch (at the port)

13.30 Departure

14.30Visit to Jules Destrooper:

Biscuit producing companies, active in more than 80 countries

Works currently with an agent in Turkey.

16.00Departure Brussels

18.00Arrival Brussels

Organising CCI: Voka – CCI Limburg

08.30Departure Brussels

10.00Visit of one of the food auctions in Limburg (Borgloon)

Both vegetables and fruit are brought to the auction by the growers the day before the sale. The next morning, the products are sold in the sale room with the clock. After the sale at the auction, the products are loaded as quickly as possible into refrigerated lorries. This keeps the products fresh until they reach the shops. At that point, they are still actually less than one day old.

12.00Lunch – Voka CCI Limburg (meeting director)

14.00Departure

14.30Visit ANL plastics: a packaging company

ANL Plastics develops and produces thermoformed packaging. At ANL Plastics you can find a wide variety of standard packaging as well as tailor-made trays for your products. About 85 % of their products are tailor made. ANL Plastics offers you its development department, produces the mould and the foil and delivers your thermoformed product, according to your wishes and demands. It is packaging for fresh food, biscuits, chocolate, ice cream and nonfood.

16.00 - 18.00Visit Hasselt (to be confirmed)

18.00Departure Brussels

DAY 4 (Organising CCI: Voka - CCI Antwerpen-Waasland)

10.00Arrival Antwerp - Linkeroever

Visit to Katoen Natie, a large logistics company (in the port region) with a wide range of services, including experiences in working for the agrifood sector and business relations with Turkey in that sector.

Demonstration of innovative logistical services for agrifood producers, exporters and importers. Brief meeting with SMEs – clients explaining how and why they make use of such specialised logistical providers.

William Deceulenaere

12.00Lunch – Restaurant Brebonna – site Katoennatie (20 persons)

14.00 – 15.45Visit city centre (central meeting point, accompanied to the chamber)

16.00 – 18.30‘Meet and greet’ reception at the chamber premises:members of all the Flemish Chambers of Commerce and Beci will be invited to attend thisnetworking reception.

Brief presentation of opportunities for doing business with Turkey(by Head of the Economic-Commercial Department of Turkish Embassy, Dr. Gurakan) will be followed by 2 short testimonials of doing business with Turkey and a networking reception.

19.00 – 21.00Dinner restaurant “Neuze Neuze” (25 persons)

21.30Back (by taxi or autocar) to Brussels

Organising CCI: Voka - CCI East-Flanders

10.00Arrival Voka – CCI Oost-Vlaanderen (office Aalst) (to be confirmed)

10.00 - 10.30Welcome: Stefan Derluyn, Internationalisation Manager, Voka - Chamber of Commerce East Flanders

Innovation in Agrofood sector

11.00 - 12.00Centre of Excellence “Food to Know” University of Ghent, a platform of 5 departments related to food and technology, food and healthcare

And/or: Flemish Biotech Institute, a life sciences research institute. They perform basic research with a strong focus on translating scientific results into pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial applications.

And/or: FlandersBio, the umbrella organisation for the Life Sciences and Biotechnology sector in Flanders

12.00 - 13.30Lunch / boattrip (meeting with Counsellor of Municipality of Ghent, of Turkish origin)

Case study innovation in agro-food sector

13.00 - 15.00: E.g. CROPDESIGN, Young enterprise in innovative seed-and crop design (Ghent)

Logistics in the agrofood sector

15.30 - 17.30Visit port of Ghent and/or agro-food company based in the port of Ghent

Back to Brussels

END OF THE PROGRAMME

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