World Mithai Namkeen Convention & Expo 2026

How it compares

ANUGA FoodTec India in Mumbai is a stronger comparison for a company evaluating processing, automation or packaging equipment across several food and beverage sectors. Its 2025 show brought together 639 exhibitors and 21,875 trade visitors. That breadth helps an equipment supplier reach processors beyond sweets and snacks, or a factory team compare technology for several product lines.

Snack & BakeTec, also in Mumbai, stays closer to WMNC's product territory while concentrating on processing and packaging technology for snacks, bakery and confectionery. Its potato technology seminar, packaging symposium and hosted international buyers make it relevant to production teams and machinery vendors with those specialties. Bakery technology belongs more directly in that conversation than in WMNC's mithai-centered program.

WMNC's advantage for a sweets or namkeen business is the range of decisions it brings together within the same trade community. Ingredients, traditional presentation, gift hampers and machinery all have a place, with competitions and artisan demonstrations adding a product-development dimension. Choose it when understanding India's mithai and namkeen supply chain matters as much as inspecting a production line; the Mumbai technology fairs are more natural choices for a project centered on equipment across adjacent food sectors.

WMNC fits mithai and namkeen producers, and the ingredient, packaging and machinery suppliers whose business depends on India's sweets and savory-snack trade.

Who exhibits

The mix covers machinery, packaging, ingredients and finished products, so a visit can follow a sweet or snack from production to its gift box. Industry partners include Avon Flavours, BLG Hing, Rajdhani Besan, Romio Technologies and Girnar Food Machine, illustrating the span from taste and raw materials to software and equipment. Haldiram's and Bikaji present the show. These connections place WMNC firmly inside India's sweets and namkeen community, alongside the live demonstrations and craft competitions.

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World Mithai Namkeen Convention & Expo 2026

WMNC 2026 is the ninth gathering, with Haldiram's and Bikaji presenting the event. The convention brings automation, taxation, health-conscious formulations and global expansion into its seminar program. Mithai and gift-hamper competitions, the Mithai Namkeen Ratan Award and a closing gala keep the product and the trade community alongside the machinery exhibition. For producers moving between artisanal methods and larger-scale manufacturing, that combination is the defining feature of this year's program.

• Use the mithai and gift-hamper competitions to compare presentation and recipe ideas alongside the packaging suppliers; WMNC connects both parts of the product.
• Pair the artisan cooking demonstrations with the automation discussions to examine how traditional mithai techniques translate into repeatable production.

Exhibiting

Shell booths include basic furnishings and a plug suitable for phones and laptops; machinery requires additional power. Bare-space exhibitors handle their own build and must arrange event power separately. Demonstration equipment arrives under a token-based unloading system, with a participation letter required. This suits suppliers able to show how ingredients, machinery or packaging work in a mithai or namkeen operation.