• 📍 Vancouver Convention Centre East Building, Vancouver 📅 April 14 & 15, 2025

Why GSF?

GSF® is the premier event for the grocery and specialty food industry — the ultimate destination for innovation, collaboration, and business growth.

Why Attend GSF 2025

Step into the heart of the grocery industry at Grocery & Specialty Food West—the premier trade show where innovation meets opportunity.

This is the stage where top brands showcase the latest products, services, and trends shaping the future of food and retail. Meet industry leaders, discover groundbreaking solutions, and build meaningful connections with partners driving change. Dive into interactive experiences, thought-provoking sessions, and live product demonstrations that bring the future of grocery and specialty food to life. Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and lead. Registration for Grocery & Specialty Food West 2025 is now open!

What’s There?

320+

booths

210+

exhibitors

850+

companies

2,800+

key decision-makers, buyers, and thought leaders

Top 5 Reasons to Attend

Grocery focused

This is the only grocery-focused show in Canada. More than 2,800+ key grocery stakeholders attended the show.

Business opportunities

This show is the only exhibition dedicated to serving the growing multi-billion dollar grocery industry. Categories include fresh, frozen and refrigerated foods, snacks, beverages, ethnic specialties, and gourmet lines. Along with food categories, retailers are looking for solutions for front and back end (operations, POS systems, displays, uniforms, equipment, etc).

Networking

The annual event, established in 1997, as a means of promoting collaboration between retailers and manufacturers in the western grocery sector. It’s also a must-attend event for food producers, manufacturers to network with key Canadian retailers to further enhance their position in the market place as well as to expand coast to coast across Canada.

Education

Morning conference sessions, engaging workshops and live trade floor listen and learn sessions for grocers and manufacturers provide effective ways to show and sell more effectively.

Innovations

Discover the latest trends, innovations and growing product categories on the more than 90,000-sq.-ft. trade floor where there are close to over 210 exhibitors showcasing their latest products and services for grocery. Pavilions this year: First Timers (discover brand new entrants into the grocery scene); BuyBC (BC local SMEs); Canada Connect (regional and local brands and services); Sustainability Sentral (green and eco friendly products / services)

Find the latest innovations and trends over 2 days!

Retailer Connect 1:1 Meetings

meet with vendors about their newest product/service to get into grocery. Retailer Connect offers first-time exhibitors and vendors speed meetings to meet with retailers looking for innovations.

New Product Showcases

What are some of the buzz worthy products at the show? Find them at the Front Lobby Entrance displays

PLUS! Get valuable learnings from the Insights & Innovations stage – FREE to all trade show attendees!

Category specialists share their best practices

Demonstrations by leading experts on trends, innovations

Marketing and merchandising best practices, and more!

Listen & Learn Morning Conference & Workshops(preregistration required)

FREE Networking Events

Sunday Opening Reception

Monday Mix and Mingle

Monday Gala Dinner

Sponsors

Lead Media Sponsor

Grocery & Specialty Food West is Canada’s premier western grocery trade show, bringing together retailers and manufacturers from across the nation to discover new innovations, network, and build relationships within the grocery industry. GSFW is dedicated towards helping you grow your business and build relations with key retailers.

Exhibit:
Rolster Taylor
RTaylor@cfig.ca

Sponsorship:
Marketing@cfig.ca

Events/Conference:
Events@cfig.ca

Information:

Exhibitor List
Floor plan

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