Company

For more than 20 years, FORUM SA has been successfully operating in the fields of professional trade shows and publications with a sense of responsibility towards the bakery, pastry, coffee, food service and hospitality professionals. Since 1988, when the company started publishing the magazine Z+G (Zacharoplastio-Gelateria), FORUM SA has gone a long way towards the development and expansion of its activities offering valid and high quality information as well as the ultimate meeting and interaction business platform to professionals of the wider food production sector. Today, the company organises the following international trade shows:

• ARTOZA
• HORECA

Moreover, the company publishes 6 professional magazines:

• A-Z (Bakery-Pastry)
• Z+G (Zacharoplastio-Gelateria)
• Snack & Coffee
• Chef's Club Magazine
• Psitopolio (Steak House)
• Viotechniki Artopoiia Zacharoplastiki (Artisanal Bakery Pastry)

Founder, president and managing director of the company, Nikos Choudalakis is considered by major market players to have written his own history in the sector of trade shows organisation thanks to the application of an innovative business model combining the organisation of trade shows with the publication of magazines. FORUM SA is regarded as a pioneer company in Greece thanks to its dual activity which entails the communication support of each trade show by a series of professional magazines addressed to specific categories of the shows' visitors. The application of this business model leads to the mutual promotion of both activities in favour of the company and most importantly to the benefit of its clients. Furthermore, thanks to its specialised and experienced personnel, FORUM SA has an in depth knowledge of the needs and challenges that every sector faces, and is in position to provide its clients with the proper solutions. 

Ιn December 2010, FORUM SA was recognised by ICAP Group SA as one of the «STRONGEST COMPANIES IN GREECE», a company that can successfully face challenges thanks to its high creditworthiness. FORUM SA is a founding member of AGECO (Association of Greek Exhibition and Conference Organisers) and participates in major Greek and international professional organisations such as  SETE (Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises) and SCAE (Speciality Coffee Association of Europe).