Meeting between Ukrainian manufacturers and Czech companies 2027

The Czech Republic is a member of the EU and serves as a convenient gateway for companies seeking to expand beyond the traditional markets of Western Europe and enter the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. The Czech Republic’s total agricultural imports in 2023 amounted to US$15.3 billion — 7% more than the previous year. In 2024, food imports accounted for 6.75% of the country’s total goods imports — a figure that is steadily rising. Despite the dominance of EU suppliers, Czech importers are actively diversifying their sourcing channels and are open to new partners with competitive offerings.

Key trends in the Czech market include growing demand for convenience foods and ready-to-cook products, ethnic and specialised food products, as well as increased focus on quality and nutritional value among urban consumers. The Czech food market is 30–40% self-sufficient, creating stable structural demand for imported products across a wide range of categories. Promising sectors for Ukrainian producers include dairy products, meat products, tinned goods and vegetable preparations, confectionery, juices and concentrates, as well as frozen fruit and vegetables.

The B2B meeting format allows Ukrainian producers to hold pre-arranged negotiations with Czech importers and distributors within a single event, present their products and commercial terms to a targeted audience of buyers, and receive feedback on the product’s compliance with market requirements. The Czech Republic is a geographically compact country where most key players are concentrated in Prague, and a single reliable local partner or distributor is capable of covering the entire national market, and often the Slovak market as well. Czech partners focus on long-term cooperation rather than one-off deals, so the first face-to-face meeting plays a key role in building business relationships.