We have long been a catering provider at exhibition centers, having won the concession contracts for the Paris Nord Villepinte and Paris Le Bourget sites in 1985 and then the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in 1990. All three of these sites are now managed by Viparis.
One of the most prestigious events held in Paris is the International Paris Air Show organized every two years at Le Bourget by the French Aerospace Industry Association. This...
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We have long been a catering provider at exhibition centers, having won the concession contracts for the Paris Nord Villepinte and Paris Le Bourget sites in 1985 and then the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in 1990. All three of these sites are now managed by Viparis.
One of the most prestigious events held in Paris is the International Paris Air Show organized every two years at Le Bourget by the French Aerospace Industry Association. This show attracts 350,000 visitors from around the world in the space of one week, and during the 2015 event, €130 billion worth of contracts were signed. For Areas it represents six months’ work, with 700 employees mobilized to provide catering services in Halls 1, 2 and 3 (sit-down dining, take-away solutions and events catering, etc.) as well as outside the halls, with some forty kiosks proposing a varied offering to satisfy a wide range of tastes – traditional specialties from the Aveyron region, cuisine from south-west France, a Paul bakery, Angélina macaroons, a Basque-style brasserie, food trucks, burgers and Mexican food. We also cater for two major trade shows at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris – the Paris Motor Show, which attracts more than 1.2 million visitors and the Foire de Paris, whose visitor numbers reach around 700,000. In all, we provide catering services at more than 150 trade shows and fairs in France each year, drawing on our unique and specific operational expertise for each one. These events are also an opportunity for us to carry out the essential process of testing new offerings in a pop-up format before introducing them permanently at exhibition centers or rolling them out to other markets.
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