Projects
Safer Food Better Business
Food Northwest has secured funding from the Food Standards Agency to assist over 450 businesses across 12 Local Authorities as part of a project that will run until June 2010. The businesses will be coached to put in place a well documented Food Safety Management System via the Safer Food Better Business scheme. Safer food, better business (SFBB) is an innovative and practical approach to food safety...more
UK Trade and Investment
Export UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the Government organisation that supports both companies in the UK trading internationally, and overseas enterprises seeking to locate in the UK. UKTI is an international organisation with headquarters in London and Glasgow. Across its network UKTI employs around 2,500 staff and advisers in UK embassies, in posts overseas, and in the nine English...more
The Northwest Dairy Strategy and Action Plan
A Strategy and Action Plan has been created for the Northwest Dairy Sector which has a value of £1.1 bn in the Northwest of England. The Northwest Region is an important part of the overall UK Dairy Farming Sector – 14% of the UK and 24% of England’s dairy farming activity occurs here in the North West. The Action Plan has been developed following research and consultation with the...more
Northwest Red Meat Strategy Action Plan
The Red Meat Sector in the Northwest A vibrant Northwest Red Meat Industry is vital to our supply chain from farm to fork and, significantly, the Northwest is home to 17% of Englands cattle and has the second largest concentration of suckler cows, in addition to one of the largest abattoir and processing facilities in the UK. Long recognising its importance, Food Northwest commissioned AHDB MS...more
Food and Drink Capabilities in the Northwest
Food Northwest has recently collaborated with NWUA (Northwest Universities Association) to create the ‘Food & Drink Capabilities in the Northwest’ publication. The document highlights the capabilities existing in Northwest universities that can support the innovation of businesses in the Food & Drink Sector. It is provided as a tool to for food companies to investigate which...more
EREiKS Programme
Embedding Resource Efficiency in Key Sectors The ENWORKS Embedding Resource Efficiency in Key Sectors Programme (EREiKS) is a Northwest regional programme of co-ordinated environmental business support to improve the impact and rate of adoption of resource efficiency technologies, systems and processes, with a particular focus on delivery to specific RES priority sectors, high growth...more
Food NW Build a Future-Proof Supply Chain
Food Northwest has taken the lead and is enthusiastically driving forward a three year supply chain project. With over £900k of support from NWDA, the project will strengthen the well established food supply chain in the northwest by creating a collaborative environment for the key players in the sector and their respective supply chain partners. The project will meet a number of...more
The Northwest Regional Strategy
Regional Strategy 2010... The Regional Strategy for the Northwest provides a unique opportunity to bring together its spatial, economic, social and environmental strategies and build a new long term vision for the region. Our goal is to produce an agreed strategy for the region which will guide action and investment by Business, National and Local Government and the Voluntary and...more
Access to Consumer Insight through Centre for Value Chain Research
If you want to know who buys the product you are manufacturing this will be of interest to you!!! Are you considering launching any new products in the next 12 months? Do you know what size and format the packaging will be? Is your market growing and is there a product that is similar to yours on sale that you could learn from? Do...more
Fulfilling the potential of local food in Englands Northwest
The Northwest has the opportunity to become the best region in the UK for the availability, supply and consumer demand of local food and drink. Our region is blessed with a rich diversity and range of local food manufacture matched with a growing demand among consumers. Retailers, wholesalers, food service and tourism businesses recognise this trend and are taking steps to...more
