The fast-growing UAE grocery sector will take centre stage at Gulfood 2026, as the worldwide meals exhibition launches Gulfood Grocery Commerce, a brand new platform designed to serve the fast-moving client items, personal label and grocery segments driving the area’s meals financial system.
Going down from January 26–30, 2026 on the Dubai Exhibition Centre in Expo Metropolis Dubai, the platform displays the rising strategic significance of grocery commerce in guaranteeing product availability, worth stability and provide chain resilience throughout GCC and wider regional markets.
The Center East stands out as one of many world’s fastest-evolving retail landscapes, fuelled by inhabitants progress, urbanisation and fast trendy retail growth. Grocery and fast-moving client items stay on the core of this transformation.
Inside this panorama, the UAE alone generates round $40bn in grocery retail gross sales and continues to maintain annual progress of roughly 6.5 per cent, underlining its position as a bellwether marketplace for regional retail tendencies.
UAE grocery sector in highlight at Gulfood 2026
Accelerating this shift additional, the Center East’s on-line grocery market is forecast to succeed in $327bn by 2033, reshaping how grocery merchandise are sourced, distributed and bought throughout the area.
Gulfood Grocery Commerce by Gulfood 2026 is positioned as a high-impact industrial market for producers, model house owners, merchants, distributors and shopping for teams searching for scale, partnerships and volume-driven progress.
The platform is designed to help the operational wants of grocery and FMCG provide chains at a time when retailers and wholesalers throughout the area are increasing at unprecedented velocity.
Confirmed exhibitors embody Agro Mix, Ajman Chamber, Al Naqeeb, Anabtawi, Biotech, Dairy World, Dubai Industrial Metropolis, QNT, Set Al Kel and the Umm Al Qaiwain Chamber, showcasing capabilities throughout packaged meals, dairy, diet, substances and value-added grocery merchandise.
Worldwide participation additional strengthens Gulfood Grocery Commerce’s place as a worldwide sourcing hub. Exhibitors and nationwide pavilions will characterize key grocery provide markets together with China, Malaysia, Senegal, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the US, Türkiye and Vietnam, supplying a rising share of grocery merchandise to Center Jap retail and wholesale channels.
