Food & Beverage Trade Show
Lead Capture, Hands-Free
Tasting sessions, product sampling, and handshakes leave no room for note-taking. Exporb captures supplier and distributor leads with voice recording and instant card scanning — so you never lose a contact or forget what was discussed.
Food Expo Lead Feed
Live captures from your team
Tuscan Olive Co.
"Organic extra virgin, bulk pricing"
Pacific Beverages
"Kombucha line, US distribution"
Gulf Foods Trading
"Halal certified snacks, MOQ 1000"
Tokyo Natural Foods
"Matcha supplier, samples sent"
Why F&B Companies Lose Leads at Trade Shows
Food and beverage expos are hands-on events where traditional lead capture methods fail.
Tasting Sessions Make Notes Impossible
When you are sampling products, shaking hands, and pouring beverages, there is no time to write detailed notes. By the end of the day, you have a stack of business cards and no context about what was discussed.
Supplier Cards Pile Up Fast
Food expos like SIAL and Anuga generate hundreds of supplier contacts. Manually entering business card details into a spreadsheet takes days and produces errors.
Large Halls, Scattered Teams
F&B exhibitions span enormous venues with multiple halls. Team members visit different suppliers and capture separate contacts with no shared view of who talked to whom.
Slow Follow-Up Loses Distributors
Distributors and buyers meet dozens of suppliers at each event. If you do not follow up within 48 hours with specific references to your conversation, you lose the deal to a competitor who did.
How Exporb Solves Lead Capture for Food & Beverage
Built for the hands-on, high-volume nature of food and beverage exhibitions.
Voice Recording During Tastings
Record notes hands-free while sampling products. Capture supplier details, pricing discussions, packaging requirements, and distribution terms — all without putting down your glass.
Instant Card Scanning
Snap supplier and distributor business cards in any language. AI extracts name, company, title, email, and phone in seconds. No manual data entry required.
AI Lead Scoring
Automatic scoring based on conversation content and buying signals. Quickly identify which distributors, retailers, or buyers are most likely to place an order.
Team Sync Across Exhibition Halls
Your entire team shares a single lead pool even when spread across multiple halls. See who visited which supplier, avoid duplicate contacts, and coordinate follow-ups.
CRM Export for Distributor Follow-Up
Export leads to HubSpot, Salesforce, or CSV with all AI-extracted notes — product interests, pricing discussed, volume requirements. Follow up with context, not generic emails.
Offline Mode for Large Venues
Food expos are massive — WiFi is unreliable. Capture cards, record voice notes, and add details offline. Everything syncs when you are back online.
Real Scenario: Organic Brand at SIAL Paris
Team of 5 arrives at SIAL Paris. Two reps cover the booth while three walk the floor sourcing new suppliers. Everyone joins the shared event workspace.
Booth rep meets a UK distributor interested in their organic snack line. Voice recording captures a 4-minute conversation about pricing tiers, minimum order quantities, and shelf-life requirements.
Floor team scans 23 supplier cards across Halls 3 and 5. AI extracts contact details from cards in French, Italian, and Arabic. Quick voice notes capture product impressions after each tasting.
94 contacts captured across the team. A major Middle Eastern distributor gets a lead score of 85/100 — flagged for CEO follow-up. No duplicates despite 5 team members working different areas.
Day ends with 156 contacts. Hot leads are exported to HubSpot with full context — products discussed, pricing requirements, distribution territories. Personalized follow-up emails go out that evening.
Major Food & Beverage Trade Shows
Exporb is used at the world's largest food and beverage exhibitions.
SIAL Paris
Paris, France
Global food and beverage innovation
Anuga
Cologne, Germany
Food and beverage trade
Gulfood
Dubai, UAE
F&B sourcing for Middle East and Africa
Natural Products Expo
Anaheim / Philadelphia, USA
Natural and organic products
Fancy Food Show
New York / Las Vegas, USA
Specialty food and beverage
FHC China
Shanghai, China
Food and hospitality (Asia)
IFE London
London, UK
Food and drink expo (UK/Europe)
Alimentaria
Barcelona, Spain
Food, beverage, and gastronomy
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