Dear Subscriber and Valued Reader
GFMT into Milling and Grain: The big news here is the decision we have taken to publish GFMT every month from January 2015 and to re-brand the magazine 'Milling and Grain' in January. After careful thought we have decided to shorten our title, revert to our 'Milling' roots (we were published as 'Milling' for the first 90 years) while emphasising the importance of the grain supply chain and retaining our unique coverage of the feed sector which we have reported upon for over 50 year. Our current edition (September-October 2014) shows the new logo and has a full timeline of our history from 1891 along with key industry events over that period.
We are also pleased to report that Mark Cornwell of Kansas in the USA has joined our parent company. Mark can be contacted on his new email address:
[email protected]. Learn more about Mark and our plans by
reading the editorial we have both prepared for the latest edition of GFMT - soon to be called Milling and Grain.
For those looking forward to next year, 'Milling and Grain' will be working with
The 2nd Rice Milling Expo from February 06-08 in Karnal, India. GFMT/Milling and Grain is supporting this event and would welcome millers to visit us at the event. We are also supporting the millers event in Turkey called
IDMA. This is one of the most important events for rice and flour millers and takes place from April 23-26, 2015 in Istanbul.
For UK milling industry suppliers GFMT is working with UKTAG to offer support for those companies wishing to exhibit at Rice Milling Expo and IDMA. We are hosting a two-and-a-half-hour seminar in London on Monday November 24, 2014 at The Farmers Club (from 13:00-15:30) to review these two events and outline support available for companies registerd in the UK. There arel imited invitations available so please let me know if you would like to attend.
Call for speakers: 'The Global Milling Conference' will join with us to bring you a truly milling focused one-day conference under the GRAPAS banner during the Victam Exhibition in K�ln, Germany on June 11, 2015. Watch this space for details of the program and how to register. Please mark your diaries to ensure you put aside the time to come to the GRAPAS Exhibition and Conference from June 9-11, 2015.
Many congratulations to VIV for its great success in China at the end of September with VIV China 2014 in Beijing. We were fortunate to be in Beijing for the Aquatic China 2014 event which proceeded the exhibition where we had a stand to distribute GFMT and International Aquafeed magazines.
Our staff have been very busy this past month or so with events such as JTIC in France and the World Nutrition Forum in Munich, Germany. We'll be reporting on both events in our last edition for 2014 in which we will look back and celebrate some of the most popular features GFMT has published before we move to Milling and Grain for our January 2015 edition.
We will also be busy over the next month or so attending EuroTier in Hanover, Germany from November 11-14, 2014 and IAOM Middle East Africa from December 3-6, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Finally, in 2015, we will be publishing six issues throughout the year in each of the following languages - Spanish, Arabic and Turkish. Let me know if you would like to sign-up for a subscription to one of these language editions, which will be compilations of the two editions of the latest English versions of Milling and Grain.
