In addition to sector-specific topics, this year’s Natexpo will spotlight Out-of-Home Catering (OOH), Holistic Health, and Fruits & Vegetables through three themed days.
Sunday, November 30 – Fruit and Vegetable Day
Monday, December 1st – Organic for Holistic Health Day
Tuesday, December 2 – OOH Catering Day
Sunday, November 30
Fruit and Vegetable Day
A driving force for organic products: In specialized organic retail, the fruit and vegetable section plays a strategic role. It's often the consumer's first visual contact with the store, embodying freshness, seasonality, and vitality. A true driving force, it positively influences purchases in other areas of the point of sale. Natexpo devotes an entire day to it, on the first day of the show, to showcase its commercial, educational, and environmental potential.
This Fruit & Vegetable Day is a strategic meeting for all organic professionals. Between sharing best practices, express training, and taste discoveries, it aims to make the fruit and vegetable section a sustainable, delicious, and efficient driving force for the organic store of tomorrow.
A rich and committed program
A specific village and experts present:
A dedicated space will bring together around twentyexhibitors, including INTERFEL in an organic fruit and vegetable village. This area will highlight the solutions, products and innovations that are driving the industry forward.
Conferences on the Stage
Highlights will punctuate the day with current themes:
• Positioning and value of organic fruits and vegetables: economic realities and customer expectations.
• Climate change: what innovations for adapt crops and supply?
• French origin vs imported products: issues of traceability, environmental impact and reinsurance.
Check out the program for La Scène
Workshop: tangible tools for pros
Designed for distributors, department managers and field teams, these practical workshops will provide keys to boosting sales and the attractiveness of the department:
• Sales pitch kit & customer advice: Product sheets, recipe ideas and tips for better talking about fruits & vegetables in store.
• Consumer data & trends: To better understand current consumer expectations.
• Shelf promotion and merchandising: Practical advice for improving presentation and rotation.
• Highlighting forgotten or original varieties: To surprise and retain customers with a differentiating offer.
• Anti-waste & surplus management: Practical solutions to limit losses and recover unsold items.
• Express training for teams: “Know how to talk F&L in 3 minutes flat”, A simple and effective method for quickly training salespeople to speak to customers in an engaging manner.
• Create an event on the shelves with seasonal operations: Concrete examples of on-site promotions to inspire stores and boost sales.
Experiences to live on site
• Natexpo Tchin-Tchin: a juice & smoothie bar to discover products in a different way.
• Natexbio / La Maison de la Bio Stand: tastings, educational games with BioED, and an aperitif trophies to conclude the day in a friendly atmosphere.
• Local Shops : mini-training sessions focused on fruit and vegetable merchandising for immediate impact at the point of sale.
Monday, December 1
Organic for Holistic Health Day
In a context where health is at the heart of individual and collective concerns, Natexpo is devoting an entire day to Holistic Health, an approach that links human health, planetary health, and organic food. This theme, at the crossroads of prevention, innovation, and education, promises to be a highlight of the show.
This day is part of a desire to make organic a pillar of public health policies, through awareness-raising actions, educational tools, and meetings between professionals in the sector, health institutions, distributors and consumers. More than just a trend, holistic health is becoming a structuring issue for organic, and Natexpo is positioning itself as a catalyst for this transition.
Conferences to open the debate
On The Stage, a series of conferences will question the place of organic in public health issues:
• Organic and protection of natural resources
• Organic food and human health: what evidence, what commitments?
• Holistic health: how to give concrete expression to the debate
On the Ingredients Forum, a conference from our partner Nutrikéo (a health and nutrition strategy consulting firm) on trends in dietary supplements will round out this exciting program. These discussions will shed scientific, societal, and economic light on the growing role of organic farming in preventive health policies.
An engaged and immersive program
At the Natexbio stand / La Maison de la Bio, global health will be presented in a concrete and interactive way:
• Animation of the Health Fresk, a participatory tool for understanding the interconnections between environment, food and well-being,
• BioED – special health: games and awareness modules accessible to all,
• Meeting with mutual societies committed to planetary health, promoting projects such as the Tour des Pyrénées or the Tour d’Europe around health prevention,
• Tastings of organic products specifically geared towards health.
Tuesday December 2
OOH Catering Day
The third day of Natexpo 2025 will highlight the Out-of-Home Catering (OOH), a key sector for the future of organic food. Conferences, speed meetings, discovery tours, and tastings will punctuate this strategic day designed to strengthen the presence of organic products in professional kitchens, from canteens to gourmet restaurants.
This special catering day is part of the dynamic Natexpo 2025, which focuses on a strong thematic approach to mobilize sectors. By building concrete bridges between producers, processors, institutions, and restaurateurs, Natexpo plays a leading role in the food transition.
Join us on Tuesday, December 2nd to discover how organic products are making a lasting contribution to the out-of-home catering industry!
Conferences to structure the future
On Stage, several conferences will address crucial issues:
• Structuring of local supplies,
• Increasing the proportion of organic in OOH meals,
• Forecasts for 2035 of purchasing in collective and commercial catering
These interventions aim to equip professionals to develop their practices towards greater sustainability and quality.
Check the program for the Stage
A dynamic network around the OOH Catering Sector
This day is based on solid partnerships with major players in the sector such as Hôtellerie Restauration, Restauration 21, ZePros, Gault & Millau, but also committed institutions such as Agence BIO, Interfel, Ecotable or Restau'Co.
Among the highlights, speed-meeting sessions will allow catering professionals to meet organic producers, processors and distributors. Organic Catering trail will guide visitors through a targeted selection of exhibitors, facilitating exchanges and discoveries.
Meetings with decision-makers in the institutional catering sector
Catering suppliers, speed-meetings will allow you to meet key buyers this year. Visit us in meeting rooms 1 and 2 (stand C19), free entry and no appointment necessary.
Today's program :
9:30-10:30 Philippe Lapouge, Director of the Descartes Administrative Restaurant (room 2)
10 a.m.-11 a.m. Céline Bouthelot, Head of Catering Department – City of Suresnes (room 1)
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Gregory Meche, Director of the School Fund of the 20th arrondissement of Paris (room 1)
14 AM -15:XNUMX PM Stephanie Le Cour Grandmaison, Head of the technical division for agri-food products, Army Commissary (room 1)
14 p.m. - 15 p.m. Mickaël Dubois, Director of Sustainable Restoration – City of Saint-Denis (room 2)
A unique tasting masterclass, in partnership with Millésime BIO
The world's largest tasting of organic wines and beers, the Millésime BIO Challenge, takes place every year in Montpellier. A jury of professional tasters judges more than 1800 wine samples and 150 beers in competition. This year, Natexpo and Millésime BIO are joining forces to showcase the excellence of organic wine: a selection of the 2025 medal-winning wines will be featured at the show, and...A tasting masterclass will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd at 11:30 am.
The number of places is limited. Registration open here.
A lively and educational space
At the Natexbio stand / La Maison de la Bio, visitors will be able to attend:
• Games and features with BioED – special OOH Catering,
• A discovery tour of organic OOH,
• Tastings to discover organic products suitable for catering.
