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Natural Products Expo West Closing a Day Early

Jan. 27, 2025
This year’s show starts at 10am each day and the entire event ends Friday, March 7, at 2pm.

Natural Products Expo West, the huge trade show for natural and emerging food & beverage products, will close a day early this year, ending on Friday instead of its traditional Saturday, and will open an hour later each day.

The show runs Wednesday, March 5, till Friday, March 7, still at the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center. Instead of a daily 9am opening of the several exhibit halls, they will open to general attendees at 10am, still closing at 6pm, except for Friday when the entire show closes at 2pm.

Thursday and Friday there are Buyer-Only Hours from 9am to 10am. Buyer-Only Hours include retail buyers, hosted buyers, foodservice buyers and health practitioners

Tuesday, March 4, remains dedicated to educational sessions, special events and the Fresh Ideas Organic Marketplace.

“We have adjusted the show schedule to fit the needs of our industry,” Informa Markets, the show sponsor explained on its website. “Our goal with this schedule change is to increase ROI for exhibitors, reduce crowding, allow space for more buyer-only hours, and simplify the product discovery journey.”

See www.expowest.com.

About the Author

Dave Fusaro | Editor in Chief

Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.

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