Gulfood is one of the world’s largest food and beverage exhibitions, held annually in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This year’s exhibition will open on 26 January. The organisers promise that over four days it will showcase more than 1.5 million products from over 8,500 exhibitors representing 195 countries.
For many years, Ukrainian companies have been participating in Gulfood, viewing it as an opportunity to develop their export potential and enter new international markets. Dubai serves as a gateway to the countries of the Persian Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) which rely on food imports for 70–90% of their consumption.
This year, the exhibition is being held in two of Dubai’s largest expo centers, and Ukraine will be represented by over 50 companies, 14 of which are organic producers.
In 2026, Gulfood will for the second time feature a dedicated Ukrainian organic stand:
- Brain Box LLC, Poltava region: tomato chips and grissini, onion crispbread;
- Catanzaro Eurazia, LLC (TM Alta Kraina), Odesa region: frozen and freeze-dried berries (raspberry, strawberry, bilberry, blackberry, lingonberry, elderberry), apple and grape juices concentrated;
- DPK “WAIZ”, LLC (ТМ Dear Baby), Dnipropetrovsk region: children’s breakfast cereals, snacks, cereals;
- Karmaliuk LLC, Khmelnytskyi region: organic elderberries;
- Panfruit Ukraine, LLC, Kyiv city: freeze-dried berries (raspberry, strawberry, bilberry, blueberry, melon, watermelon), fruits (peach, nectarine, plum, apple) and vegetables (zucchini, beetroot, sweet potato, sweetcorn);
- Terra LLC, Kharkiv region: instant porridges and soups, oat, millet, buckwheat, pea flakes and groats;
- Sofia Nuts, LLC, Cherkasy region: walnuts;
- Yarofruit LLC, Lviv region: organic frozen and fresh berries;
The National Stand of Ukraine at Gulfood 2026 will be located at Dubai Expo City: South Hall 1 | Stand 1-13.
The Ukrainian National Stand is organised by the State Institution Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office (EEPO, Ukraine), the national project Diia.Business, and the public organisation United Ukraine, in partnership with the Ukrainian Export Alliance, under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, and with the support of Switzerland within the framework of three programmes:
- The Swiss-Ukrainian programme Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine (QFTP), implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) in partnership with SAFOSO AG (Switzerland);
- The Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP Ukraine), implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO);
- The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO), implemented by the Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation Swisscontact.
The following companies will have their own stands at Gulfood 2026:
- Eco Berry (Ivano-Frankivsk region) — South Hall 1, Stand 3-22
- Galeks-Agro / Organic Milk (Zhytomyr region) — South Hall 1, Stand 2-12
- Rud JSC (Zhytomyr region) — Rashid Hall, Stand R-360
- Vitmark-Ukraine (Odesa region) — North Hall 13, Stand DG-231
- Ukroliya (Poltava region) — Za’abeel Hall 2, Stand Z2-30
Information will be updated…