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
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 improve their 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 regions. more
Resource Efficiency Programme
ENWORKS resource efficiency The ENWORKS resource efficiency Programme 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 companies and companies with high resource efficiency opportunities. As more
£2.5m in business cost savings identified by Food NW
Under the Enworks Resource Efficiency Programme, Food NW has identified £2.5M worth of cost savings for Food & Drink companies across the North West during the last 18 months. In the process Food NW has also helped local businesses achieve annual environmental savings of over 1,700 tonnes of CO2e and 59,600 m3 of water, as well as hundreds of tonnes of materials and waste diverted from landfill. A 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 university has more
Food NW Build a Future-Proof Supply Chain
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 more