12 STiR tea & coffee industry international
Valley Stream, NY, was founded in 1980. In the past five
years Corporate has acquired Bronx-based King Coffee
Services, Bross Food Enterprises and Manhattan's Bevex
Beverages. Learn more at www.corpcofe.com
Food & Hotel Asia
Asia's largest biennial food and hospitality tradeshow in
drew 64,826 attendees to 3,213 exhibits in April,
occupying a record 102,000 square meters. Exhibitors
from 64 countries participated and 43% of those in
attendance were from overseas. The four-day Singapore
show was the 19th edition since 1978.
The Specialty Coffee & Tea event was the first to
integrate tea and coffee with exhibitors displaying a range
of equipment, coffee, tea and accessories. Competitions
included the Barista Challenge hosted by the Specialty
Coffee Association of Europe – Singapore Chapter and
the Latte Art which drew 30 contenders from Singapore,
Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Hiroko Hana
from New Zealand (pictured above) won the Barista competi-
tion besting representatives from 12 countries. Tomoko
Yamamoto of Japan and Terence Tan of Singapore placed
second and third. Bookings are now open for FHA2016. To
learn more visit www.foodnhotelasia.com
HOTELEX Shanghai 2014
HOTELEX 2014 at the Shanghai New International Expo
Center drew 81,596 professionals from 132 countries the first
week of April. Attendance was up 16%. There were 1,600
exhibitions covering 140,000 square meters in 14 halls reflect-
The 2014 China Barista Championship (CBC) drew 43
regional winners representing 24 cities.
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