Events & Seminars
The future of sweets & snacks?
On Monday I paid a visit to the ISM, Europe’s biggest trade fair for sweets, chocolate and snacks. Though still majoring on candy, chocolate and ‘fine bakery’ products, ISM’s marketing noted that it had ‘expanded its offer to include current nutrition trends in the snacks sector and further products for in-between snacking enjoyment’. These included fruit &…
Read MoreUK Food & Drink trends (part 2)
Following last week’s post with insights from ‘drinkpreneur live’, a workshop (and contest) to help find the next big thing in soft drinks, this article reports on the new drinks (and foods) being offered to the UK’s retailers, as they try to satisfy workers’ insatiable appetite for a quick (but healthy) midday bite. Conveniently all…
Read MoreUK Food & Drink trends (part 1)
Recently I treated myself to a couple of days of trend-spotting. On September 23rd I was a mentor at the ‘drinkpreneur live’ event (a contest in which entrepreneurs compete for the attention and prizes awarded by drinks industry professionals, including some heavy-hitting supermarket buyers). The following day I decided to visit an exhibition of new food and drink concepts…
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