Trends & Innovations

3 out of 4 visitors as well as the 1,500 journalists at the exhibition visit the Trends & Innovations Observatory. This has become a "must" event for SIAL exhibitors from industry, retail and catering.

SIAL Trends & Innovations means :

• 800 products presented by exhibitors at Trends & Innovations (free of charge and reserved exclusively for exhibitors)
• 350 products from 41 countries selected by the jury on the basis of their innovative characteristics (new consumer benefits), including 50 catering products and 19 semi-processed foods, ingredients or outsourcing solutions
• 15 Trends & Innovations Grands Prix and two Special awards were given to the best international innovations
• The Trends & Innovations Observatory is acclaimed by three-quarters of SIAL visitors 
• The Trends & Innovations award ceremony
• The International Trends & Innovations book: a summary of global innovations and essential tools: to order

Contact Trends & Innovations: innov@sial.fr

Disney - SIAL: creation of the Kids Innovation Award

Disney and SIAL awarded this prize for products for children (aged 3-12) that combine the nutritional values required for a balanced diet with food that is tasty and fun.

Products selected as being innovations for children also obtained :

• an area dedicated to Innovation for Children in the SIAL 2008 Trends & Innovations Observatory
• presentation of the winning product(s) in an Innovation for Children campaign
• awards, handed out by TWDC (The Walt Disney Company) for the SIAL 2008 Trends & Innovations awards.