For over 35 years, Food Ingredients Europe has been the world's leading gathering of food and beverage suppliers, buyers, R&D specialists and production experts. Originally held every two years in a major European city, Food Ingredients Europe is now held annually in conjunction with Health Ingredients Europe. Since its inception in 1986, Food Ingredients Europe has directly contributed to billions of euros in business. Food Ingredients Europe is the market leader in helping catering ingredient companies find the right people and solutions to take their business to the next level. Each year, he showcases a wide range of innovative new ingredients and services and has been visited by over 500,000 people throughout its lifetime.

Data released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Bundesanstalt für Strafstattung) showed that bilateral trade between Germany and China in 2022 was 297.9 billion euros, making China Germany's most important trading partner for the seventh consecutive year. Germany's imports from China were 191.1 billion euros in 2022, up 33.6 per cent year-on-year, while Germany's exports to China were 106.8 billion euros, up 3.1 per cent year-on-year, the data showed.