The expo will be launched on Friday, August 21, and run for two days, IINA reported.
According to Maria Salvador, the expo’s director, it will be a major event in Europe as it will provide an opportunity for presenting Halal products.
She said more than 300 companies from Spain, Mediterianian countries and elsewhere will showcase their products at the two-day event.
She added that the expo will also include seminars and forums featuring the Halal industry.
The upcoming exhibition will gather the main actors of the worldwide Halal industry in Madrid.
Currently, more than three hundred Spanish companies are Halal certified. The majority of them belong to the food industry, with products as diverse as soups, frozen potato omelettes, non-alcoholic sparkling juices or candies, being the meat industry the most consolidate actually in the Spanish Halal sector.
There are more than 44 million Muslims consumers in Europe.
Halal Industry has a 16% market share of total global food industry.
Muslims spent about 137 billion dollars in Halal tourism in 2012.
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