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Gulfood Manufacturing 2026 exhibition stand planning

Dates checked 6 Oct 2026 | 3-5 November 2026 | Dubai World Trade Centre

Plan a Gulfood Manufacturing stand around the equipment or ingredients visitors need to inspect, the demonstrations you intend to run and the utilities those demonstrations need. The official venue listing confirms DWTC; a show date alone is not an approval or delivery deadline.

Share your show brief

Machinery and demonstration brief

List each machine or display with its footprint, weight, delivery dimensions and service needs. Identify whether demonstrations involve moving equipment, compressed air, water, drainage, heat or food samples. These are questions to resolve in your brief, not a statement that every stand requires those services.

Separate visitor flow from equipment access

Mark the demonstration area, viewing space, reception, storage and delivery route on your floor plan. Check how equipment will enter the allocated hall and stand before the layout is frozen. Describe samples, packaging and ingredient displays separately so they do not compete with machinery access.

Use the current show documents

Get your allocation, current exhibitor manual, service order forms and contractor submission requirements from the organiser. The public show listing verifies dates and halls, but it does not establish your stand height allowance, floor loading, electrical capacity, move-in slot or submission deadline.

What to send for a scoped quote

Send the show, hall and stand allocation, dimensions, open sides, floor plan, products and demonstrations, utilities, brand assets, meeting/storage needs and your actual submission and installation deadlines. Agree design, materials, graphics, venue submissions, fabrication, transport, installation and any dismantling as separate scope items.

FANN is an independent stand design-and-build company, not the show organiser or an appointed official contractor. This guide does not replace your current exhibitor manual. No stand size, price, permit, deadline or utility capacity is inferred from the show dates.

Documented stand reference

Bayara at Gulfood 2020: food-product stand reference, a different show

Official planning sources

Official organiser dates and venueDWTC show and hall listingGet a scoped stand quoteExplore stand design and build