Inspiration is hard to find sitting at your desk. You need to taste, touch, smell and experience inspiration. At the Sweets & Snacks Expo, inspiration is everywhere. And so are the people, insights and strategies for turning that inspiration into reality.
1. Find out which products and trends promise to be the next category disruptors.
2020 Most Innovative New Product Awards
The Most Innovative New Product Awards highlight the categories’ groundbreaking new products – judged by a panel of the industry’s top retailers and thought leaders to be 2020’s best in show and guaranteed winners with your shoppers.
Education on Category and Retail Disruption
The Sweets & Snacks Expo Business Disruption education track and special Eye Opener sessions are designed to pinpoint the hot-button trends in confectionery and snacks that are on everyone’s minds like cannabis, social responsibility and more.
2. See how candy and snacks along with technology are transforming merchandising and the retail experience.
Destination Retail
The Sweets & Snacks Expo’s Destination Retail is taking the next step with you into the retail future. See how innovation at checkout, major technology breakthroughs and new strategies for in-aisle merchandising are changing the retail game.
Category Growth Education
With a dedicated Category Growth learning track, the Sweets & Snacks Expo education sessions provide a path forward for businesses of any size looking for new merchandising approaches to maximize the growing opportunity in candy and snacks.
3. Get early access to the next wave of candy and snacks startups and entrepreneurs.
Innovation Avenue
Innovation Avenue is a portion of the Expo floor dedicated to innovative businesses that have been in operation for less than two years and is an incubator for the trend-making new products that will shape the market in the months and years following the show.
200+ New Exhibitors
The Sweets & Snacks Expo draws more than 200 new exhibitors each year, ensuring a constant flow of new products into the industry and onto store shelves.
4. Meet with global candy and snack makers and category thought leaders introducing the products and trends that are taking over the world.
International Pavillions
Sweets & Snacks hosts pavilions from countries like Chile, Mexico and France. See how candy and snack makers are taking local ingredients and flavors and creating new and exciting products, brand new to the U.S. market.
Global Category Education & Insights
This year, Sweets & Snacks will invite leading international category thought leaders to share global trends in everything from flavors and textures to packaging and merchandising strategy.