PRAN displaying over 500 products at SIAL food fair

PRAN is displaying over 500 products at the SIAL Food Fair in Paris.

The five-day fair at the Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, which features 7,000 exhibitors from 109 countries, began on Oct 21 and will run until Oct 25.

The Bangladesh-based group is exhibiting a range of products, including juice and beverages, confectionaries, snacks, biscuits and baked goods, culinary goods, spices and frozen foods at two stalls.

It is also exhibiting 20 new products including aloe vera juice, gummy candy, protein bars, chocolate coated coconut bars, chocolate cookies with filling and snack noodles.

The SIAL fair is one of the largest food fairs in the world and draws traders and buyers from every corner of the globe, said PRAN Export Limited COO Mizanur Rahman.

“The objective behind the participation in the fair is to increase export earnings of the PRAN Group through reaching new buyers,” he said. “Moreover, we can get idea about the world’s food market, which help us to bring new products to market for our customers across the globe.”

"PRAN Group has always emphasised the quality of manufacturing products,” PRAN-RFL MD Kamruzzaman Kamal said.

“For this reason, PRAN products are not only popular in Bangladesh but are also gradually getting popularity in the global market."

PRAN says it now exports goods to 141 countries around the world.

It has exported $330 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year, the company said in a statement.