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CoffeeFest (Literary Serbian: Кофифест, Kofifest) is a regional, annual coffee festival that is held every last weekend in September on the Ušće street in Belgrade, Serbia across the Ušće Shopping Center. The Belgrade coffee, tea and hot beverage festival is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, City of Belgrade Belgrade Tourism Organization, Serbian Tourism Organization, and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. The festival organizer is a PCO company Oivivio LLC headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Exhibit area consists of over 2,000 m is set up on the closed-for-traffic street passing by the shopping mall.Among the exhibitors there was importers, distributors and roasters of domestic, traditional coffee, espresso, single origin coffees, espresso machines, capsules, pods, instant coffees, water, teas, milk for coffee, RTD coffee and more. The first CoffeeFest held on September 26–27, 2014 hosted 37 brands on 29 exhibition booths and had participants from Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland and United States and attracted 18,210 visitors from Serbia and neighboring countries.
Exhibitors at first CoffeeFest were manufacturers, distributors and companies whose business include:
- Coffee, tea, tea biscuits, chocolate, milk, creamers, water, syrup, sugar, cocoa and other supplements for coffee and tea
- Professional and home coffee-making machines and vending, water filters and cleaning agents
- Organizations, institutions and associations dealing with catering, food, nutrition and medicine, as well as research, training, consultancy and certification of hot drinks and accompanying products