By Davide Pini FAIRS TOUR SIGEP Rimini (Italy), January 20 - 24 One aspect that always stands out while walking through the stands of Sigep is the international environment that you can feel. After all, it only takes a quick look at the official data provided by the organizer Italian Exhibition Group to realize that the profile of visitors and exhibitors is increasingly projected towards a global exchange. The 45th edition of the exhibition saw the participation of professional operators from 160 countries. There were one thousand two hundred exhibiting brands with booths and more than 5 thousand business meetings were held with over five hundred top buyers arriving from 84 countries. This confirms the key role A chronicle of the trade fairs visited by puntoItaly during its travels abroad. A first-hand reportage of meetings, emotions, and experiences. puntoItaly wire Sigep plays in the sweet foodservice world, with its complete offer of products and technologies for gelato, pastry, bakery, coffee and chocolate. Sigep 2024 saw the return of the biennial Gelato World Cup competition. You can understand our emotions when the jury announced the winner of this tenth edition: the Italian team. The team, consisting of Vincenzo Donnarumma, Rosario Nicodemo, Filippo Valsecchi, Domenico di Clemente and Davide Malizia, excelled over the other ten nations in the race. Second and third place went respectively to South Korea and Hungary. Danilo Cinelli won the title of Best Gelato Artisan of the year 2024 during the contest organized by the Italian Gelato Artisans Association and he won the “Lorenzo Cagnoni Memorial – A thousand ideas for a new flavour” competition. In the historic “Alberto Pica Memorial - stracciatella gelato flavour”, the gold medal went to Alessandro Squatrito. The fiftieth stop of Gelato Festival World Masters, the worldwide travelling competition that will end in 38
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