The World Tea and Coffee Expo (WTCE) is to be held for the fourth time at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai from 20-22 October. WTCE is a dedicated global trade event for the Tea, Coffee and allied sectors and consists of an expo, a two-day high-level conference and workshops. WTCE gives an opportunity to showcase products, services and technologies, network with focused buyers, upgrade knowledge and find practical solutions to issues faced by this vital sector. In addition to catering to a huge and growing domestic market, the hot beverage segment is a major foreign exchange earner in India, providing large scale employment opportunities, especially to women. The expo showcases the best that India has to offer and also makes world-class products and technologies accessible to Indian businesses.
The 2016 edition has about 70 exhibitors from seven countries including Pavilions from Tea Board of India and Sri Lanka Tea Board.
Since its inception in 2013, the expo has brought the global industry players closer, enabled mega deals in addition to being the preferred launch pad for new products and technologies, especially for SMEs who aspire to national and international expansion but have low budgets. The trade fair is supported by the Ministry of Commerce (Tea Board of India) and is also supported by leading national and international bodies.