The Olive Oil Business Forum will connect some twenty Catalan producers with buyers from Europe and Asia

Lleida will again host theOlive Oil Business Forum, a business meeting organised by Prodeca, ACCIÓ and the Lleida Chamber of Commerce to facilitate trade relations between Catalan olive oil companies and international buyers from selected markets. The second edition will feature 19 Catalan producers and 11 importers and distributors from South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

The business event takes place on 6, 7 and 8 November in Lleida. The first day will consist of an olive oil tourism route to show the sector's reality in one of the country's main producing areas. International buyers will be able to walk the olive groves and visit the mills of the western counties, currently in full harvest. At midday they will stop at the Catalan Olive Oil Culture Centre in La Granadella, where they can taste various dishes with olive oil as the star. The tour aims to bring the sector's culinary and business culture closer — information international buyers particularly value when passing it on to their own customers, and which lets Catalan producers stand out through the added value of tradition, innovation and olive oil quality. 

In the afternoon there will be an official welcome by the authorities at the Hotel Finca Prats , with a talk by Prodeca's olive oil sector manager, Rosalba Arrufat, presenting to international buyers Catalonia's potential as a food and agri-food hub.

The second and third days are devoted to the business block, at the Llotja de Lleida: two mornings of B2B meetings arranged according to a pre-set schedule in a quick-meeting format of 20 minutes each. It is a first contact that maximises direct contact and makes it easier for Catalan companies and international buyers to connect commercially. More than 200 B2B meetings are expected over the two days.  

In the afternoons international buyers can visit the facilities of any Catalan companies they wish, whether to find out more, learn in more detail where the products come from or move forward with the negotiations begun in the earlier meetings. 

Participating Catalan companies:

• ACTELGRUP (Segrià) 
• AGRICOLA DE GODALL - MERADES (Montsià)
• AGRICOLA DEL CAMP SANTA BARBARA SCCL (Montsià)
• AGRICOLA SANT JOSEP (Terra Alta)
• ARRELS D'EN PEP (Priorat)
• BARÓ DE MAIALS (Segrià)
• COOPERATIVA CAMP DE BELLAGUARDA (Garrigues) 
• COOPERATIVA LA GRANADELLA (Garrigues)
• COSTERS DEL SIÓ (La Noguera)
• CUADRAT VALLEY (Segrià)
• ETIM - COOPERATIVA FALSET MARÇÀ (Priorat) 
• GRUP PONS (Segrià) 
• LLAGRIMES DEL CANIGÓ (Alt Empordà)
• MOLÍ COLOMA (Alt Penedès)
• MOLÍ SALAR D'ARBUCIES (Selva)
• OLEUM NATURALE (Ribera d’Ebre)
• OLI CASTELLÓ (Noguera)
• OLIS DE CATALUNYA (Baix Camp)
• TERRALL DE SANT ISIDRE (Garrigues) 

Video of the 2022 Olive Oil Business Forum: