The Food Service Industry Expo (FSI Expo) is leaving Excel London after 16 years and will run at Olympia London on 28–29 September 2027, under a new three-year agreement. Olympia announced the move on 9 November 2026, and the show’s own website already gives the new dates and venue.
What has been agreed
FSI Expo has signed a three-year deal with Olympia, so the September 2027 show is the first of three editions there. The show will use the Grand Hall and the National Hall, the two largest halls on the Kensington site. Olympia Events, which runs the venue, is managed by Legends Global.
The organiser is Fortem International, and the show site names Fortem Food And Drink Ltd as the company that runs it. According to the announcement, FSI Expo brings together nine co-located shows across foodservice and hospitality and attracts more than 15,000 industry decision makers and 500 exhibitors each year. Those are the organiser’s and venue’s own figures, not audited attendance.
Why the organiser says it is moving
The organiser points to Olympia’s redevelopment and its central London location. George Brophy, Portfolio Director at Fortem International, said in the release that “Olympia’s significant redevelopment and investment in its facilities mirror that ambition” and that its transport links and location offer “a refreshed environment and the right platform to take FSI into its next phase of growth.”
Adam Pollington, Sales Director at Olympia Events, said the venue looks forward to “working closely with the team at FSI Expo to explore how we can make the most of our event spaces and the wider destination” over the three years.
The release also says the first Olympia edition will launch a new show, Stadium Expo, alongside new networking formats. The release gives no separate dates or programme for Stadium Expo, so for now it shares the main show’s September dates.
The shows that sit under FSI Expo
FSI Expo is a group of smaller trade shows on one floor rather than a single show. Its website currently describes eight of them under one roof, and the release’s figure of nine appears to include the new Stadium Expo. These are the titles named on the show site.
- Hospitality Tech Expo, for booking, point of sale and hospitality technology
- Hotel & Resort Innovation Expo, for hoteliers
- Trade Drinks Expo, for on-trade and off-trade drinks businesses
- Café Business Expo
- Street Food Business Expo, covering food trucks, pop-ups and multi-site operators
- Responsible Packaging Expo, for sustainable foodservice packaging
- Grab & Go Expo, for cafés, delis, quick service restaurants, pubs, retailers and contract caterers
Visitor registration is free on the FSI Expo site, which also takes stand bookings for 2027.
What the Grand Hall and National Hall give the show
Between them the two halls Olympia has allocated offer about 22,700 square metres. Olympia publishes the Grand Hall at 14,000 m² with a maximum capacity of 7,000 people, and the National Hall at 8,730 m² with a maximum of 5,000. Both have a ground floor and a gallery floor, and each has its own guest entrance, the Grand Hall’s on Olympia Way opposite Kensington Olympia station and the National Hall’s on Hammersmith Road, 100m from the station.
The move follows what Olympia calls its £1.3 billion transformation, which has added restaurants, bars, hotels and entertainment space around the halls. For a two-day trade show this matters mostly for evening events and for exhibitors who want to host clients close to the stand.
A pattern of shows signing up at Olympia
This is the latest in a run of multi-year organiser deals at Olympia. Earlier this month Clarion Events signed new agreements to keep four of its shows at Olympia until 2028, and in June the venue announced multi-year deals with London Tech Week, Big Data LDN and Decorex. Excel London has been announcing its own wins over the same period, including UK Construction Week London in May 2027 and London Build’s move to Excel.
If you exhibit at FSI Expo, the practical change is the address (Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX) and the travel plan. Exhibitors who have built their logistics around Excel’s Docklands site will need a new plan for load-in, staff travel and hotels. You can compare both venues, and other large London halls, on our London conference venues page.
Sources: Olympia London press release, 9 November 2026; Food Service Industry Expo; Olympia, The Grand Hall; Olympia, The National Hall
Venues in this story
- Excel LondonYou can run a plenary for up to 4,200 delegates beside 87,328 sq m of column-free Event Halls, with a step-free station at each end of the building and 13 listed spaces to choose from.
- Olympia LondonYou can link 20,000 m² of heritage halls to a new ICC with an 800+ auditorium, beside Kensington (Olympia) station, with 350 hotel rooms on site and the Grand Hall seating up to 5,000.
