Creatively designed pavilion represents 38 companies

Many of the companies that attend Seafood Expo Global are organized into pavilions based on the region they come from. e Galician region of Spain has its own pavilion organized by the Xunta de Galicia. Ramón Damián Fernández Conchas, the Head of Market Service for Xunta de Galicia and Raquel Seijas, Production Manager (Events), Escenoset, who was responsible for the design of the pavilion explained that Escenoset had overseen the design for the Galician pavilion at the show for ten years, even when the show was held in Brussels. e company handles about ten shows annually, so the show in Barcelona is just one of the many seafood events they work at worldwide, including shows in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Escenoset always works to ensure that the structures it provides are sustainable, so it attempts to fabricate as much as possible with recycled materials. Even the oors are reused from year to year to create as little waste as possible. Materials are recycled from expo to expo whenever possible. Raquel Seijas explained, however, that the designs change every year. is year, the theme created for Xunta de Galicia was “Under the Sea.” e company provides a complete service with the goal to

Liz Plizga, Group Vice President, Diversi ed Communications. e show this year demonstrated categorically that the seafood business is back and that the decision to move to Barcelona has been heartily endorsed by the industry.

A few European companies exhibiting at the show are presented in the following pages; more will be presented in the next edition of the Euro sh Magazine. ey include sh farmers, processors, service providers, and others up and down the supply chain. e representatives from each of these companies discussed their products, business practices, their e orts towards greater sustainability, and the future they envisage for their companies. make the expo as seamless as possible. Mr Conchas added that with the help of E, at a recent event in Madrid with over 1,000 companies, Xunta de Galicia won an award for the best stand. e Xunta de Galicia pavilion hosted 38 companies at the Seafood

Expo Global this year. Mr Conchas also noted that an additional 20 Galician companies were exhibiting at the show but did not need to do so under the Xunta de Galicia banner. is shows the strength of the Galician seafood industry, he said.