UBIFRANCE BLOG http://www.ubifrance.com/ List of Posts en-us 1 Copyright 2010 - 2012http://www.ubifrance.com, All Rights Reserved. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:37:22 GMT Canadian Music Industry: Visit of a French Trade Delegation in April 2012  

Ubifrance Canada is organizing a Trade Delegation in the Music Industry on the occasion of the annual ‘Rencontres de l’ADISQ’ one of the major francophone musical events in Québec and Canada. Organized in collaboration with the ADISQ (Association Québécoise de l’Industrie du Disque, du Spectacle et de la video) the visit will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of April 2012 and the delegates will travel to Montreal as well as to Toronto in order discover the new upcoming trends in the Canadian music industry. B2B meetings with local Canadian companies will also be organized on this occasion. An event not to be missed !
]]> Omar Janjua Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:37:22 GMT Canada: Trade delegation on Aging and Disability Ubifrance Canada for the second year in a row organized a delegation of 6 companies offering innovative solutions designed to improve the quality of care for the aging population and people living with a disability.

For this second trade mission, the delegates attended the Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology in Toronto. They also had the opportunity to tour the new lab facilities of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and meet one-on-one with potential business partners.
 
In Montreal, a customized seminar was organized for the participating companies  and involved the following organizations from Quebec: the Association québécoise d’établissements de santé et de services sociaux (AQESSS) that represents 133 health-related public institutions, FADOQ (Quebec Federation of Senior Citizens) and SEDNA Group who offers long-term care services, specialized medical and nursing services.
 
In both Ontario and Quebec, Ubifrance Canada organized individual meetings for each of the 6 participating companies to identify potential business partners.
]]> Anne-Sophie Proutière Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:13:41 GMT Loblaw Brands Offshore Innovation Show  

After 18 months of close cooperation with Loblaws, the largest supermarket chain in Canada, Ubifrance Canada has organised on April 26 and 27 a trade mission for 16 French vendors of various products, from frozen canapés and escargots, to mustards and cookies. They have participated in the first “LCL Offshore Innovation Show” in Brampton, Ontario. The show has welcomed in total 33 companies from France, Italy, Chili, New Zealand, Switzerland and Germany. It was a great opportunity for the French companies and their international competitors to meet with the private label teams directly at their main office. Ubifrance Canada will work together with Loblaws in the coming months to improve and optimise the format.
]]> Aude Guivarch Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:52:43 GMT Delegation of French luthiers in Montreal For the 4th consecutive year, laguitare.com, which is the leading resource portal for guitarists and luthiers,  organize a French Pavillion at the MONTREAL GUITAR SHOW from July 1 to 3.

 Laguitare.com is proud to showcase 16 French luthiers, some of them have already participated the previous years, others are new, such as Gaëlle Roffler, Pierre-Marie Chateauneuf, Remy Larson, Bertrand Ligier, Gérard Audirac, Jean-Noel Lebreton and Gilles Pourtoy.
 
For more information about the French Pavillion : http://www.laguitare.com/guitare-lutherie-les_luthiers-francais-salon_de_la_guitare_de_montreal_2011-7065-0.html
 
The fifth edition of the Montreal Guitar Show will take place at Hyatt Regency Montreal and will host 139 exhibitors divided in 3 sections : accoustic luthiers, electric luthiers and suppliers. 12 countries will participe to this new edition.
www.salondeguitaredemontreal.com
]]> emmanuelle.dubout Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:31:05 GMT GO EXPO 2011 Ubifrance and the French Trade Commissions in Canada hosted for the 2nd time a delegation of 6 French Oil & Gas suppliers & service companies (BOUYGUES BUILDING, COREAU, CV ASSOCIÉS, OSEAD HYDROCARBON TECHNOLOGIES, PCM et VAN BEEST France) at GO EXPO 2011, the #1 Oil & Gas on-shore event in North America in 2011.  During the 3 days of the show they had the opportunity to showcase their products, services & know-how, meet key players of the Oil & Gas industry, and develop business partnerships with local clients, distributors or partners.  

]]> Stéphane Blajberg Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:50:12 GMT Photonics North 2011 Ottawa, 16-18 May: after a 1st successful participation in 2010, it was obvious that the French Trade Commission (Ubifrance) in Canada would raise a new delegation of French Photonic Cies to attend Photonics North, the main conference in photonics in Canada, in 2011!

Then, these are not less than eight companies interested in developing their activities in Canada which attended the event this year.  
 
For 3 days, Ixfiber, Microcertec, RSA Le Rubis, Photline, Idil, Perfos Teem photonics and Vectrawave have got the opportunity to exhibit their technologies, products or services, at the exhibition space.
 
The French companies followed a four-day program held in 2 stages:
- 3 days in Ottawa, including individuals B2B meetings with potential partners, visit of the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) and the participation at Photonics North where additional pre-targeted meetings as well as networking through the Ubifrance booth made contacts easier, allowing the French delegation to enhance their visibility all along the expo. Access to technical sessions at OFS21 was also included.
- 1 day in Montréal, where an additional session of B2B and visits of sites (IMI-NRC and EMT-INRS Research Institute) took place.
]]> Jerome Chataigner Sat, 28 May 2011 01:53:21 GMT The 10th Year Anniversary of the Vancouver Fashion Week The 12th of April, the Vancouver Fashion Week celebrated its 10th anniversary during the Fall/Winter 2011 Opening Gala at the Sutton Place Hotel in Downtown Vancouver.

The Vancouver Fashion Week is one of the West Coast biggest fashion event. All the fashion scene, designers, more than 50 buyers, media and fashion lovers gathered to view many local and international designs. This season, VFW has showcased many international designers from China, Korea, the Netherlands, France and the UK alongside established local and emerging designers. For the first time, a French brand, Autobiographie, attended this event. One of its designer, Nazafarin Sadat Akhavi, was at the Opening Gala to show some of her beautiful Fall/Winter 2011 creations, before the official fashion show which was the Saturday 16th April.
During five days, all the fashion shows took place at the Empire Landmark Hotel, in downtown Vancouver.
Year after year, the Vancouver Fashion Week is gaining more importance. It’s a key event to make a brand known to the Canadian market and to the Asian market as well. Twice a year, designers and buyers from East to West can connect at this event, and do business. With its location on the Pacific Rim, Vancouver is a perfect place for such a multicultural and trendy show.
]]> Marine Bougeard Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:21:01 GMT Canada: Trade delegation in the Digital and Interactive Media technologies.  

UBIFRANCE Canada organized for the third consecutive year a trade delegation of twelve French IT firms with a focus on digital and interactive media technologies. The visit took place from the 28th to the 31st of March 2011 during which the companies got an opportunity to visit and discover the potential of the digital media industry in the Canadian IT hubs such as Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver.
 
More than 100 B2B meetings were organized with local companies in Montreal and in Toronto along with networking events in collaboration with local digital media and IT clusters such as the Allaince Numérique and the Québec Film and TV council in Montreal. A special seminar was also organized for the participating companies with a focus on the legal, taxation and incentives aspects of investment in the multimedia sector in Canada. The delegates also got an opportunity to visit and meet the interactive and digital media team from Radio Canada, a leading French language channel based in Montreal.
 
In Toronto the Interactive Ontario welcomed the trade delegation on the occasion of one of its networking events, the I-Lunch which took place during a seminar on the new concept of ‘gamification’ presented by author and game based marketing specialist Mr. Gabe Zichermann. The final day of the visit in Toronto was dedicated exclusively to business meetings.
]]> omar Janjua Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:31:57 GMT France : Guest of honour of the 9th Americana  

For the first time, France participated as the Guest of honour to the 9th edition of AMERICANA, the biennial international exhibition of environmental technologies, held at the Palais des Congrès of Montreal from March 22 to 24, 2011.
 
With the support of the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in Canada, the French Pavilion welcomed a delegation of thirty-four companies and organizations specialized in environmental technologies.
 
More than 8,000 visitors and speakers and 310 exhibitors participated to this edition. Over 50 countries were represented. More than 800 business meetings were held within the matchmaking forum.
 
The Club ADEME International, which greatly helped its members to exhibit at AMERICANA, has been very involved, particularly through the program of lectures on the themes of the French expertise of waste management and climate plans and energy efficiency in buildings and industry.
 

Once again, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region has shown a significant mobilization of businesses, coordinated by the association CD2E "Creating Eco-Business Development."

]]> Ronan Jourdain Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:26:53 GMT PDAC 2011  

After 2 successful participations in 2009 and 2010, Ubifrance and the French Trade Commission in Canada renewed their involvement in the 2011 edition of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) mining Trade Show, one of the most important international events in the mining sector. The French Pavilion hosted 6 organisations (BRGM, Technip, Geovariances, Groupe EPC, Someflu et l’Institut Polytechnique Lasalle Beauvais) and witnessed a 4-day schedule of B2B meetings for all participants.
]]> Ronan Jourdain Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:02:53 GMT CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2011 March 7-11, 2011: Ubifrance & the French Trade Commission in Canada have organized a "Focus on France", allowing ten French Companies in the music industry and their artists to attend professional meetings and concerts during the 13th edition of the Canadian Music Week.

In 29 years, CMW has become a major music festivals and markets in North America, catching more than 2,000 professionals, 3,500 artists, 650 journalists, 800 live bands and an audience of 100,000 people throughout the city of Toronto during 5 days. Outside of music programming ("Canadian Music Fest), CMW also organizes conferences, thematic discussions, ceremonies, meetings between Canadian and international professionals.
 
The French delegation, including labels, bookers, festival programmers (Atmosphériques, A Gauche de la lune, MaMA Event etc...) has benefited from exposure offered by the festival after a stop in Montreal where B2B appointments have also been organized.

Moreover, Companies have participated at a French-Canadian panel and numerous appointments with local professionals in the music industry while the CMW, with the purpose to export their artists but also to better understand the Canadian market reality.

In the meantime, eight French groups associated with these companies, occurred during the festival, especially during the “Focus on France” party organized with the support of the SCAC.
]]> Jerome Chataigner Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:52:47 GMT ISEND EUROPE 2011 Take part to the International Symposium & Exhibition on Natural Dyes (ISEND 2011) in La Rochelle (south-west  atlantic  French coast) !

The conference will last for six days, from April 25 to 30, featuring lectures, posters, films, dyeing demonstrations and field excursions to visit farmers growing dye plants, laboratories and to meet the local species of purple-producing shells along the sea-shore ...
 
More than 500 participants and speakers coming from 50 different countries are awaited to debate the biggest environmental, cultural and economical challenges regarding the preservation and developing of natural dyes.
 
UBIFRANCE supports this event, a great opportunity to meet with experts from all over the world and to discover the French offer of natural dyes and coloring agents in very different sectors : textile, leather processing, food and beverages, cosmetics…
 
For more information on ISEND 2011 Conference in La Rochelle, just follow this link : www.isend2011.com .
]]> emmanuelle.dubout Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:48:46 GMT