Grofor Dinner
ATTENTION: This year’s Grofor evening will be a 2G Plus event!
The Grofor e.V. is the organizer of one of the largest and most important international branch events, the Grofor Dinner. Around 900 players in the trade with oils, fats and oil raw materials come to Hamburg from all over the world to dine together, exchange ideas and make new contacts.
The Grofor Dinner is held every year on the fourth Thursday in November at the Grand Elysée Hotel in Hamburg.
Participation in this popular event is reserved exclusively for member companies and guests invited by them.
The next Grofor Dinner is scheduled for November 2021. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a member.
Grofor Dinner
Association
Association
Grofor e.V. is the German Association of Wholesale Traders in Oils, Fats and Oil Raw Materials (Registered Association). It was founded in Hamburg in 1916 by 25 entrepreneurs trading in food lard and fats, blubber, technical fats for the soap and candle industry and vegetable oils.
Members
Today 150 members from all over Europe trade and produce vegetable and animal oils and fats, oil raw materials, fatty acids as well as related goods or act as service-providers in the value chain.
Members
Services
Services
- Networking among members digitally and at events such as the Grofor Dinner
- Information on European legislation for food and feed and on trade with EU member states and third countries
- Consulting on questions concerning the industry and products
- Representation of interests with authorities and politics and international organizations
- Membership in the European umbrella organizations COCERAL and FOSFA and cooperation with the associations NOFOTA, FEDIOL and UCOGRAS. Grofor also participates in the Grain Club, a German alliance of food and feed industry associations
- Grofor conditions for use in commercial transactions: “General Terms and Conditions for Trading in Plant and Animal/Marine Animal Oils, Fats and Fatty Acids”
- Court of Arbitration as a permanent, international body, staffed by merchants or specialized lawyers with knowledge of Grofor conditions and commercial practices typical of the sector.
