Friday, June 10th, 2011
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
2 PM - 9 PM
11 AM - 9 PM
11 AM - 5 PM
@ the new Vancouver Convention Centre
contact us

EAT! Vancouver
Food + Cooking Festival
901 Station Street
Vancouver, BC, V6A 4J8
info@eat-vancouver.com
Fax: 604-689-8654

Documents


2011 Floor Plan


Exhibitor Registration


Pets EAT! Too


Liquor Tasting Pavilion

New Location

We are pleased to announce that festival will launch at it's brand new home: the recently opened Vancouver Convention Centre - West Wing!


why exhibit

Experiential marketing (Consumer Shows) continues to be the most influential amongst consumers, with 82% of consumers agreeing that participating in an event (hands on experience) is more engaging than other forms of communication.

-- Experiential Marketing Survey, Jack Morton

EAT! Vancouver is an ideal marketing vehicle for: Food, Beverage & Kitchen product manufacturers, distributors and retailers. It is also the best sampling opportunity through our Gift Bag program. EAT! Vancouver is a Consumer Show with momentum.

EAT! Vancouver has experienced exponential increase in visitor numbers

  • 2003 – 14,867
  • 2004 – 18,150
  • 2005 – 21,450
  • 2006 – 21,827
  • 2007 – 24,812
  • 2008 - 28,367
  • 2009 - 31,016
  • 2010 - 38,972

EAT! Vancouver is a Consumer Show that delivers your target audience

  • 85% of attendees in the key 18-54 age bracket
  • 70% of attendees are female, 70% in 18-45 age group
  • 44% of visitors have an income of over $60,000
  • 31% of visitors have an income of over $80,000
  • 22% of visitors have an income of over $100,000
  • 83% of visitors came to discover and shop for new food & kitchen products

EAT! Vancouver is a Consumer Show that delivers solid results

The only Consumer Food + Cooking Festival in Vancouver where exhibitors can interact directly with their target audience; sample, taste-test and discuss their products and services and receive instant feedback from potential customers. EAT! Vancouver is an ideal setting for launching or testing the market with a new product and is also a great opportunity to collect data and create new mailing lists and it is the perfect venue to create consumer awareness for products.

EAT! Vancouver is a Consumer Show that delivers instant sales

Visitors at EAT! Vancouver shop the aisles, looking for new and unique food + kitchen items. Exhibitors selling products can realize immediate net profits by selling directly to the thousands of visitors.

"EAT! Vancouver has been a great experience for team “Patisserie Lebeau”. We are looking forward to see you again at “Taste of the city” later this summer. Again, I have to tell you how well organized it was, the site is accessible, and we have wasted no time waiting in line before and after the show. We feel that this week-end was important to promote our grocery line, and this show is by far more effective than most of the grocery trade show, because the public, exhibitors, and grocery buyers are all there."

-- Olivier Lebeau
Patisserie Lebeau

Why Exhibit at EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival

  • Market, Sample & Sell directly to over 30,000+ consumers!
  • The audience is targeted and pre-disposed to learn about new products, services and ideas.
  • Selling at EAT! Vancouver is immediate and compelling to a targeted captive audience.
  • EAT! Vancouver provides an opportunity for buyers and sellers to meet face to face, where products can be demonstrated, handled, tasted and ultimately assessed.
  • EAT! Vancouver is an ideal medium for test marketing or launching new products. New buying interests can be uncovered and otherwise unaccessible buyers appear in front of your exhibit.
  • EAT! Vancouver has a proven track record of attracting an audience that is passionate about eating, drinking and entertaining, making it a highly targeted marketing platform for companies looking to expand profile and market share.
  • Who Visits The Show?

    At the 2010 Festival 38,972 visitors attended over the three days of the event:

    • 85% of attendees in the key 18-54 age bracket
    • 70% of attendees are female, of these 76% in 18-45 age group
    • 44% of visitors have income of over $60,000
    • 31% of visitors have income of over $80,000
    • 22% of visitors have income of over $100,000
    • 83% of visitors came to discover and shop for new food & kitchen products
    • Other businesses and brokers who are interested to resell your products

    "EAT! Vancouver - was an excellent opportunity to present our line of Imported Exotic Beers from Around the World. As an exhibitor this event was both affordable and well managed."

    -- Grant Shaw
    Beverage Concepts International

    Media Coverage Includes

    Multiple Radio Stations
    Multiple Television Stations
    All Daily Newspapers
    Most Community newspapers
    Lower Mainland Food & Entertaining related magazines and periodicals
    Regional & National Food & Entertaining related magazines
    Related websites, direct links from exhibitors' websites and web-events calendars
    Brochures/coupons distributed by exhibiting merchants and restaurants
    On-line event calendars and event listings
    www.eat-vancouver.com - our own interactive information website with over 450,000 page views in past year.
    Our exhibitors websites with a reciprocal link & invitation to visit their booth at EAT! Vancouver
    Outgdoor boardsaround the Greater Vancouver area
    Outdoor TV boards downtown Vancouver locations

    Additional marketing and promotional coverage

    Food writers and restaurant critics
    Chefs, cook book authors and home style and entertaining authors
    Related industry associations
    Community organizations
    Non-profit/charity groups
    News releases

    "We did more sales in this three day show than in any other four day show we have done."

    -- Sibylle Stipp
    Cutco Cutlery

    Exhibitors' Additional Marketing Opportunities

    Run a contest within your own exhibit
    Provide gift baskets of your products for on-air contest giveaways
    Insert corporate gift or product sample in 20,000 visitor gift bags
    Advertise in our Official Festival Guide

    EAT! Vancouver Exhibitor Benefits

    Extensive multimedia publicity and advertising campaign
    Free exhibitor badges
    Free visitor guest passes
    Free sinks with hot/cold water located in corridor behind most exhibit booths
    Free listing in Official Festival Guide Magazine
    Free listing on Official EAT! Vancouver web site with reciprocal hot link
    Professional onsite show management
    Onsite furniture and supply rental
    Convenient multi-day parking passes available for exhibitor parking
    Discounted hotel accommodations for exhibitors
    Onsite refrigerated storage (small user fee)

    "We had a tremendous launch of our new Italissima product line and introduced our wide range of gourmet foods to a huge number of eager new customers at EAT! Vancouver . We are coming back!"

    --Bruno Benedet Jr.
    Bosa Foods

    WE ARE GREEN AT HEART!
    We're making every effort to minimize EAT! Vancouver's impact on our environment. The 2010 EAT! Vancouver festival is bullfrogpowered with 100% green electricity. This means that Bullfrog Power will inject carbon-free green power onto the British Columbia electricity grid to match the amount of electricity used by this event. Bullfrog’s green power is sourced exclusively from wind power and low-impact hydro producers who meet or exceed the federal government's EcoLogoM standard for renewable energy. The Vancouver Convention Centre has a living roof, seawater heating and cooling, on-site water treatment and fish habitat built into the foundation of the West Building make it one of the "greenest" convention centres in the world.
    Buy Tickets Online

    Save $3.00 off admission!
    Purchase your admission tickets online now and save $3.00 off the regular adult entrance fee! Purchase your adult ticket for only $12 instead of the gate price of $15.

    Bite of Vancouver

    Come for lunch and stay for dinner! Eat in numerous Vancouver restaurants at the same time! When you visit, you'll discover the The Bite of Vancouver, where Vancouver restaurants will be tantalizing your taste buds with appy-size offerings of their regular menu selections.

    Grapes & Hops

    Enjoy tasting wines, beers and spirits from BC and around the world. Talk direct to the producers, vintners and brewers themselves while discovering new products. Learn about wine tasting, food paring, beer appreciation and much more in the Grapes & Hops Seminar area where tastings/seminars take place every hour.

    Food Network Stage

    The central focal point of EAT! Vancouver is, without a doubt, the Food Network Celebrity Cooking Stage where celebrities will dazzle the audience with their amazing talent, wit and humor.

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    Competitions
    BC Chefs Culinary Competition
    BC Chefs Chocolate Competition
    Citytv Master Chef Competition
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    Dairy Farmers of Canada Cheese Seminars

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