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Natural Products Expo East Sets a Record With Their Largest Crowd Yet

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The 23rd Annual Natural Products Expo East drew in a larger crowd this year with over 25,000 attendees and 1,790 exhibits, making it east coast?s largest natural and organic products trade show and conference.

Held in Baltimore, MD and produced by New Hope Natural Media, a division of Penton Media, Inc, the tradeshow ran from September 26th-29th.

Organic industry

It?s no surprise that the number of attendees grew by 7% considering the natural and organic products annual industry growth of 9.7% with consumer sales adding up to over $56 billion according to The Natural Foods Merchandiser?s 2007 Market Overview.

With various events, e-business products and services as well as print, New Hope Natural Media is currently the leading information provider and media source for the natural and organic product industry.

This event was a practical launching pad to showcase new products and revealing a bit more about the healthy trends of the future.?

Journalist, author, entrepreneur and environmentalist Paul Hawken passed along plenty of knowledge and insight as a keynote speaker for the event, which also provided folks a wonderful opportunity to network and educate themselves on the organic trade industry, as well as a chance to negotiate deals in person.

Organic products

As the host to product introductions and events, New Productions Pavilion is the place where everyone gathered to hear the hear the exciting results of the 5th Annual New Products Showcase Awards, which included:

  • Personal Care/Health & Beauty: BeeCeuticals Organics BeeYond Body Rub
  • Food: tie between FoodShouldTasteGood MultiGrain Tortilla Chips and Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils Organic Hempmilk
  • Supplement/Herbs: Nelsons Rescue Remedy Pastilles
  • Green/Environmentally-friendly: Sweetriot 100% Dark Chocolate Cacao Nibs
  • Innovation: Wise-Acre, Inc. Frost Texas
  • Packaging: Zhena Gypsy Tea
  • Though a huge success in Maryland, the Natural Products Expo East will be relocating to Boston, with the event scheduled for Oct. 15th-18th 2008 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The Boston location is thought the ideal place to keep up with the industry?s growth by increasing the proximity of the retail buying audience.?

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