2014COTECA

Welcome to Hamburg, the hub of the European tea trade – for import and export, from the countries of origin to tea shops. As an international trade fair with prestigious conference the COTECA presents you the entire process chain from raw material to finished product. Gain a comprehensive overview of the market, covering all aspects of the industry, make new contacts to the experts, and discover the diversity of tea: the perfect blend for your business.

„COTECA is highly qualified and targeted. We were able to record a very positive result after the trade fair.

COTECA is ideal in location and timing. The whole event is held in the heart of Hamburg, a city with a centuries-old tradition of handling exquisite coffee, tea and cocoa specialities. A city which is long established as Europe’s main handling centre. Hamburg is proud of the heritage coffee warehouses in the “Speicherstadt” district, and is also the headquarters of many of the big players who study and serve consumer trends throughout the world. We are getting plenty of positive feedback on the COTECA. Hanns-Christian Neumann, Head of Communication at Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, the world’s leading green coffee service provider, put it like this: “COTECA produced an amazing response. Our expectations were more than met, and we were able to build new business relations.” And that Hamburg is just the right place. And Hamburg has much more to offer well – you can look forward to a wide range of entertainment both in the COTECA supporting programme and in the city of Hamburg.

COTECA enables you to present your company and concepts in an effective, focused and targeted way, just right for your target group. That saves energy and effort, and optimises the use of your B2B communication budget.

The three days of this event enable you to make contacts and meet new customers, keeping on track for success. That helps you to build a network of contacts that will grow rapidly and naturally – something that would otherwise take years. 

We look forward to welcoming you as an exhibitor.

We developed the idea for COTECA together with the German Coffee Association, and are delighted to have its official support. The idea of a trade show covering the whole of the process chain, from each respective raw commodity to the corresponding finished product under one roof meets with full and wide-ranging support in the industry.

We are very proud also to present the German Tea Association and the German Cocoa Trade Association as official supporters since 2012. The tea and cocoa industries are also booming and are strongly rooted in Hamburg; the German market is very important for them, too.

We want COTECA to be a full success for you as an exhibitor. That is why we offer you our supporting service – with customized planning of your fair stand, to ensure optimal value for money, and with handling of all the other details of preparation including appropriate hotel accommodation. That is our concept of full service.

We can draw on decades of experience in event organisation and client service – for your benefit as an exhibitor. For example we have many years of experience with INTERNORGA, the leading international fair for the hotel, restaurant, catering, bakery and confectionery trades. We have a wide spread network of foreign representatives and contacts around the world. We are the right partner to enhance your presentation with the complete range of PR and marketing, and to attract the right trade visitors to your presentation.

Focus on your stand – we'll attract the right trade visitor

• Joint visitor advertising with associations
• Sector-specific mailings for activating your target groups
• Wide-ranging international ad campaign in all the industries-relevant trade media
• Intensive public relations
• International, high-quality visitor database
• Visitor newsletter throughout the year
• Development of tailor-made advertising material for you as an exhibitor so you can invite your customers personally with little effort, etc.

You can benefit from our experience, our know-how, our contacts and our capabilities for your presentation at COTECA