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UK FOOD AND DRINK MARKET Your route to the WHY THE UK? Why Food & Drink Expo? Discover the most innovative grocery retail market in Europe Food & Drink Expo is the UK ’ s largest food & drink trade event in 2016 British consumers are keen to experiment, seek out convenient solutions and authentic specialities. Even in tough economic times they are prepared to pay for quality. Value means more profitable partnerships with UK retailers. It gives exhibitors the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the right buyers and decision makers from the UK grocery, wholesale, foodservice, manufacturing and speciality retail sectors. • Generate sales leads: meet face-to-face with buyers across the full industry spectrum • Key decision makers: visitors have the authority to buy • All Food & Drink sectors covered: wholesale, grocery, foodservice, manufacturing, speciality. SNAPSHOT OF THE UK MARKET: • THE UK FOOD & DRINK INDUSTRY IS WORTH £197 BILLION • THE UK FOOD & DRINK RETAIL MARKET CONSISTS OF OVER 86,000 SITES • IMPORTED FOOD & DRINK ACCOUNTS FOR £39 BILLION OF THE UK INDUSTRY
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UK FOOD ANDDRINK MARKET
Your route to the
WHY THE UK?
Why Food &Drink Expo?
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British consumers are keen to experiment, seek outconvenient solutions and authentic specialities. Even intough economic times they are prepared to pay for quality.Value means more profitable partnerships with UK retailers.
It gives exhibitors the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the right buyers and decision makers from the UKgrocery, wholesale, foodservice, manufacturing and speciality retail sectors.
• Generate sales leads: meet face-to-face with buyers across the full industry spectrum• Key decision makers: visitors have the authority to buy• All Food & Drink sectors covered: wholesale, grocery, foodservice, manufacturing, speciality.
SNAPSHOT OF THE UK
MARKET:• THE UK FOOD & DRINK
INDUSTRY IS WORTH£197 BILLION
• THE UK FOOD & DRINK RETAIL MARKET CONSISTS OF OVER 86,000 SITES
• IMPORTED FOOD & DRINK ACCOUNTS FOR £39 BILLION OF THE UK INDUSTRY
Wholesale & GroceryFood & Drink Expo attractsbuyers representing both smalland large-scale wholesaleand grocery operationsfrom across the UK.
31% of Food & Drink Expo visitorswere key foodservice buyers
from independent cafés,coffee shops, cost
sector caterers, largerestaurants and hotelchains.
Foodservice
25% of visitors to Food &Drink Expo in 2014 were from
the manufacturing sector - 37%were interested in sourcing ingredients and34% in packaging, equipment and services.
The speciality market makes up18% of visitors to Food & Drink Expogiving you direct access to the UK’s decisionmakers, countrywide, from farm shops,delicatessens, garden centres, speciality foodhalls, butcheries and bakeries.
WHOLESALE/GROCERY
20%
SPECIALITY RETAIL18%
FOODSERVICE 31%
OTHER 6%
MANUFACTURING25%
SECTOR BREAKDOWN
• Farm Shop & Deli Show: bringing together the UK’s speciality retail market
• Foodex: The UK's premier event for the food and drink processing, packaging and logistics industries
• National Convenience Show: bringing together the independent retail sector
Co-locatedFood & Drink Expo is co-located with three other major UK trade events:
ManufacturingspecialitYRETAIL
Food & Drink Expo is supported by key industry mediatitles and associations including:
Our market leading trade titles like the Grocer Magazine,industry knowledge, targeted multi-platform marketingcampaigns, association involvement and full industry supportmean we talk to the entire market place, communicating to theright audience and attracting the right visitors.
Organised by
Full Media Support
"THIS IS OUR FIRST SHOW AS AN EXHIBITOR AND WE'VEBEEN VERY BUSY. IT'S BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS WITH PLENTYOF NEW BUSINESS LEADS AND A GREAT DEAL TO WORK ONWHEN WE GET BACK." GARETH CHATTERTON, RH PACKAGING
“WE’VE HAD A REALLY GOOD SHOW AND IT’S BEEN VERY BUSY. WE PICK AND CHOOSE THE SHOWS WEGO TO AND WE KNOW FOOD AND DRINK EXPO IS A GOOD ONE. WE CAN MEET WITH NEW PEOPLE ANDHAVE HAD SOME GOOD CONVERSATIONS.” RICHARD MARTIN, URBAN FRUIT
“IT’S A GOOD DAY OUT. YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S GOING ON IN THEMARKET AND GET NEW IDEAS.” CATHRYN EPTON, SAINSBURYS
"IT’S BEEN A VERY GOOD SHOW. WE’VE HAD DECENT QUALITY LEADSAND WE’VE BOOKED AGAIN SO WE’RE PLEASED.” PAUL EASON, BUSINESSDEVELOPMENT CHEF, PIDY
"FANTASTIC TO SEE EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF AND ARTISAN SHOP PRODUCE. LOVING THE BRITISHCHARCUTERY WHICH SEEMS TO BE AN EMERGING TREND IN TERMS OF BEST OF BRITISH.” DAVID BATES, TULIP
Here’s what our visitors and exhibitors had to say ….
Find out more by contactingMat Rose on 01293 [email protected]
Foodanddrinkexpo.co.uk@FoodDrinkExpo #FDE2016
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