Summer Fancy Food Show 2025

The Export Group invites you to exhibit at the Summer Fancy Food Show, which will take place from June 29th to July 1st, 2025, in New York City.

The Summer Fancy Food Show attracts numerous manufacturers, buyers, brokers, distributors, and industry professionals from the United States and around the world for three days of product discovery, networking, exciting business opportunities, and more.

Exhibit in this trade show under the Group Export’s banner, in a generic formula, and benefit from the following advantages:

• 100 sqf booth that includes: structure, carpet, lighting and a garbage can
• 1 counter
• 1 table
• 2 chairs
• 2 shelves
• 1 stool
• Back wall graphic – 2m L x 2,4m H
• Front counter printed logo
• Back wall printed logo
• Event coordination and on-site presence of an Group Export Agri-Food representative during the entire event.

Price: 

• Regular 100 sqf booth: $7,100

Market data

• According to Statistics Canada, Canadian food manufacturing exports (NAICS 311) to the U.S. have shown a positive trend over the past five years, increasing from 71.19% in 2019 to 79.60% in 2023.
• Specialty food sales across retail, food service, and ecommerce grew 6.5 percent to a whopping $206.8 billion in 2023, show the findings of SFA’s State of the Specialty Food Industry research.
  • Grocery retail sales growth is expected to be around 5 to 5.6 percent annually, and total market sales growth at 5.7 to 6.3 percent. Grocery retail sales will outpace total grocery by one to two percentage points annually from 2024-2028.
  • Americans are driven by snacks and treats. Mainly snacks and treats, standing out categories are chips, pretzels, snacks; cheese and plant-based cheese; the snacks portion of entrées, snacks & sides; chocolate and other confectionery; and ice cream & novelties. The other leaders are household staples, including bread and baked goods; coffee and hot cocoa (non-RTD); meat, poultry, seafood (refrigerated); and water.
  • Jerky and meat snacks have ridden the protein wave better than almost any category, with explosive growth from 2013 to 2017, and only one bad year since then (2020). It is still a small category ($491 million in 2023) but performed very well the last three years, given that the high cost per ounce proteins have. Flavor, format, and packaging development, as well as being the epitome of convenience, has served this category well.

Directory of Retailers in the U.S.
Group Export provides its members with a directory of retailers in the U.S. to assist in planning ahead of their trade show visits. Contact the event coordinator to obtain your copy.

Financial assistance for exhibitors
Reimbursement of a travel lump sum of $850 per person, for a maximum of two lump sums per company.

• To benefit from the lump sum, the company must absolutely provide proof of travel (e.g. airline, train, bus ticket, etc. with complete itinerary or gas receipt near destination) AND proof of accommodation (e.g. official hotel invoice, AirBNB, etc.).
• To obtain two travel lump sum reimbursements, the same proof mentioned above is requested for each reimbursement.
  • If two people share the same transportation (e.g. carpooling), two separate proofs of accommodation will be required and the name of the company or traveler must appear on them (e.g. two hotel bills).
  • If two people share the same accommodation, two separate proofs of transportation will be required (e.g. two airline tickets).
• You will be entitled to an extra $500 per lump sum if your company is located in one of the following regions: Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Côte-Nord, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec.
• 75% financial assistance on the additional costs of setting up your booth and sending samples (when consolidating with Group Export) up to a maximum of $6,000 in eligible expenses per company.
• The Group Export reserves the right to request any additional supporting documentation.

Financial assistance for visitors

• Reimbursement of a travel lump sum of $850 per company. You will be entitled to an extra $500 per lump sum if your company is located in one of the following regions: Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Côte-Nord, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec.
  • To obtain one travel lump sum reimbursement:
    • The company must imperatively provide proof of travel (e.g., an invoice for flight, train, bus, etc. with complete itinerary or receipt for the purchase of gas near the place of destination) AND a proof of accommodation (e.g., official hotel invoice, Airbnb, etc.). Accommodation must have been paid for; redemptions of bonus points of any kind remove the right to this subsidy.
  • The Group Export reserves the right to request any additional supporting documents.

By registering to this event, you agree to complete and return the activity report, which will be forwarded to you shortly. You will have 60 days following the event to send us back the completed report, otherwise you may be required to reimburse the subsidies received for this activity. The data that will be compiled is for the sole purpose of evaluating the economic benefits of this activity.

Cancellation policy

The Group Export Agri-Food is a non profit organization who manages export financial programs from the ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec and from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

As an administrator of government programs, Group Export had to implement a cancellation policy which applies for trade show participation. Policy’s details are as follows:

When a participation or registration form is completed by a representative of a company, this company becomes liable to the Group Export Agri-Food, as this form is a contract between the company and the Association.

1. In the five days following registration, the company must pay, as a deposit, 50% of participation fees. This amount can either be paid by check, direct deposit or credit card by contacting the Group Export’s financial department at 450-649-6266.
2. Direct deposits are preferred.
3. The remaining 50% of participation fees must be paid at least 60 days before the activity.
4. If the company does not respect these terms, Group Export Agri-Food has the right to cancel the company’s participation.
5. When a company is cancelling its participation:
   • If the company or Group Export Agri-Food finds a replacing participant, the full amount will be reimbursed, except for a $200 administration fee, as soon as the replacing participant has paid in full the amount due.
   • In case a substitute cannot be found, all other incurred charges, including 100% of the invoice for a space reservation, would be charged to the company.
   • All cancellations must be made in writing and be addressed to the person in charge of the trade show, whose name appears on the registration form.

This policy was endorsed by the Group Export Agri-Food’s Board of Directors, on February 14, 2008.

Eligibility for exhibitors and visitors

To qualify as an exhibitor or a visitor, the company must:

• Comply with all eligibility criteria for provincial and federal subsidies applied to this activity.
• Hold a license number from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) or demonstrate that it is not required for your type of business.
• Have a registration number with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

The Group Export reserves the right to refuse any registration for this activity.