Corporate Members
AAK Foodservice
AAK UK Foodservice provides a wide and versatile portfolio of professional cooking products. From market leading high performance long life cooking oil Prep, to the exciting and extensive range of Lion Sauces! With AAK in your professional kitchen you have quality on your side.
Access Hospitality
Access Hospitality (part of The Access Group) is proud to work with over 1,200 UK hospitality operators, helping them reduce costs, improve staff engagement and ultimately deliver better guest experiences. Our products cover everything from reservations and table management to EPoS, workforce management, property maintenance, purchase to pay, kitchen management and finance management. Our mission is to support the growth and day-to-day operations of hospitality providers to improve performance, increase cost efficiency and drive productivity. By automating time-consuming processes through one single trusted technology provider, Access Hospitality enables you and your team to focus on delivering a first-class guest experience.
AF Blakemore
Alliance Farmers’ Produce
Amadeus
Amadeus delivers catering solutions to venues and event organisers to provide visitors with a unique and memorable food experience. They do this differently by drawing on 45+ years’ experience operating in venues and creating events as part of the NEC Group, and have won 650+ industry awards.
The team delivering catering solutions to a customer portfolio of over four million visitors per year at NEC Group venues (NEC, ICC, Resorts World Arena, Utilita Arena Birmingham and Vox Conference Venue). The Events By Amadeus team caters for 150 corporate or private events annually, including 6 major sporting championships and at 20+ external venues.
Aramark
Aramark
Authenticate
Authenticate is a leading supply chain software provider, delivering a range of scalable solutions to the food and drink industry to increase transparency, mitigate risk and deliver efficiencies. Trusted by food brands around the world since 2013, our knowledgeable team and innovative technology is on hand to capture and analyse the supplier and product data your business needs to drive improvements, meet regulations and protect brand reputation.
Aviserv
BaxterStorey
BaxterStorey
Best Food Logistics
Best Food Logistics is the UK’s leading provider of food service logistics to the hospitality market. We are uniquely serviced focused and operate the UK’s only multi temperature, shared customer delivery network. We operate our own depots, utilising our own systems, with our own people delivering on our own fleet, meaning we have total control of our Supply Chain and its performance to our customers. #OnTimeNeverEarly
Best Foods
Established in 2002, Best Foods now has a dedicated team of over 60 employees across 3 continents. Our global reach extends to major retailers, food manufacturers, wholesalers, and the food service sector. The cornerstone of our success lies in fostering trusted partnerships and networks. Our dynamic R&D team collaborates seamlessly with procurement, ensuring that innovation remains central to our product offerings. Committed to outstanding service, we strive to deliver great value, simplifying the lives of our clients.
Bestway Wholesale
Bestway Wholesale which owns Bestway and Batleys depots, is the largest privately owned food and drink wholesaler in the UK specialising in providing a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution to the hospitality sector. We have been around for over 45 years, and are independent wholesalers working across hospitality and in the heart of the community to provide food, drink, services and advice to businesses across the UK. Despite being independent, we have huge scale.
Bidfood
As one of the UK’s leading foodservice providers, we share our customers’ passion for great food. But our passion doesn’t stop there. We’re 100% dedicated to delivering service excellence, making life easier and helping our customers grow.
- Our 13,000 strong product range includes the best of both own brand and leading foodservice brands.
- Our 22 UK depots offer a truly local service – the majority are no more than 80 miles from their customers.
- We offer comprehensive range of carefully selected wines, as well as beers, ciders and spirits.
- We also provide quality catering equipment, everything from cutlery to cookware, cleaning and disposables.
Biotiful
Upgrading Dairy since 2012.
Figure-skater turned entrepreneur, Natasha Bowes, founded Biotiful Dairy to fulfil her dream of introducing kefir to the UK. Knowing first hand all the benefits cultured milk can bring, the brand was built to upgrade dairy with better taste and nutrition for everyone, every day. Biotiful Dairy produce cultured dairy drinks and snacks using British milk and the ancient method of fermentation. For cultured milk drinks and snacks that are naturally lower in sugar, full of gut-friendly cultures and high in protein.
Bolsius
Bolsius Professional offers a complete range of candles and holders for hospitality professionals. With 150 years in the business, the company is the largest candle manufacturer in Europe with a range including tea lights and floating candles, decorative glasses, tapered and table candles, pillar candles, outdoor candles. Bolsius Professional does everything to produce their collections in the fairest way possible with love for people and the planet. Using both recyclable and recycled materials, Bolsius Professional contain plant-based wax.
Booker
Booker
Border Biscuits
Biscuits. One of life’s little joys and our greatest passion for over thirty five years. Everyone at Border is personally responsible for outstanding quality, whether they’re sourcing ingredients, weighing, mixing, baking or packing. We believe our biscuits should be nothing short of exceptional and we’re proud to make them just that. Our Famous Flavours are grounded upon authentic family recipes which have been meticulously developed over the years.
Cafédirect
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Cafédirect is a pioneering ethical brand, B Corp and Social Enterprise whose aim is to help improve smallholder livelihoods across the coffee growing world. We have been working directly with small-scale farmer cooperatives for over 30 years to create a truly sustainable and ethical business. It is our long-term partnerships that make life better for our partners and a better cup of coffee. Our investment in our farmer partners ensures that the quality of our drinks are continually improving, from speciality coffees to organic single origins.
Casual Dining
Casual Dining is the award-winning trade show for pubs, bars and restaurants. The Casual Dining show gives senior decision makers the unique opportunity to discover new products and trends for their business, hear keynotes from the biggest names in restaurants and pubs, and all whilst networking with the who’s who of the industry! For more information please visit www.casualdiningshow.co.uk
Caterer.com
Caterlyst
Caterlyst
CaterTrax
CaterTrax is a market leader in catering software, trusted by the largest noncommercial foodservice/contract catering providers in North America. We provide flexible SaaS solutions to multi-unit contractors, streamlining catering and hospitality management for foodservice enterprises in the healthcare, business, and higher education sectors. Our flexible platform is designed to help enterprises take control of their kitchens by standardising menus, reporting, branding, and more. Join 5,000 organisations—including the largest contract caterers—using our solutions to streamline and grow their business.
CGA
CGA is the leading business intelligence and strategic consultancy provider for the ‘out of home’ leisure market in the United Kingdom and United States. We live, love, breathe our industry: harnessing our passion and knowledge of consumer insight and market measurement to help our clients make smarter and more informed decisions. Learn more: www.cga.co.uk
CH&CO
We are CH&CO. We create uplifting catering and hospitality experiences across all life stages and locations, including workplaces, destinations, venues, events, education, livery and healthcare. We push boundaries and our mindful approach to sourcing, preparing and presenting food ensures every experience we deliver, and you share, is simple, smart and stirring.
CH&CO employs over 6,200 people at more than 750 locations across the UK and Ireland and holds a Royal Warrant for catering services to HM The Queen.
Chef Direct
Chef Direct was created to specifically cater for the unique needs of Foodservice operators. Our aim is to build a bespoke one-stop supply chain solution for your business.
As part of the Booker Group, our customers can benefit from Booker's scale as the U.K's largest food wholesaler, whilst utilising Chef Direct's industry leading logistics capabilities.
Clarion Communications
Commercial Kitchen
Commercial Kitchen is the two days a year where the who’s who of equipment buyers come together in one focused, dedicated environment to meet the industry’s most innovative suppliers, discover the latest innovations, network and be inspired by unmissable keynotes. For more information please visit www.commercialkitchenshow.co.uk
Costa Coffee
Creed Foodservice
Creed Foodservice is an independent, family-owned delivered foodservice wholesaler, offering independent and group customers products from across the grocery, chilled, frozen, butchery, fresh produce and non-food categories, all delivered on one vehicle. With expertise in education, care, leisure and hospitality sectors, Creed has a thorough understanding of customers’ added value needs.
Cube
With Cube you can easily book experienced agency staff for any event. Get access to a large pool of staff trusted by leading caterers, hotels and venues since 2014. Use the agency offering you a personal service along with a state of the art booking system allowing you to track the progress of all your bookings, signing off time sheets online and controlling costs in real time.
DCS Group UK
DCS GROUP UK is the official distributor and supply chain partner for renowned FMCG brands including P&G, Gillette, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, J&J, SC Johnson, Cussons and many more household names. A UK Top 250 privately owned company, with expertise in providing customers with an innovative and unrivalled supply of market leading branded products.
Delifrance
For more than 30 years Délifrance has been developing bread, viennoiserie, pastry and savoury products for foodservice providers, retailers and bakers in about 100 countries around the world. Using our heritage, artisan techniques, baking tradition and our exacting standards of taste and quality, we help our customers around the world attract, satisfy and delight their consumers at each moment of the day.
Dewberry Redpoint
Dewberry Redpoint
Diversified Communications UK
Diversified Communications UK is a fast growing trade event organiser and publisher. Key events include Casual Dining - the multi-award-winning trade event for the casual dining sector, lunch! - the multi-award-winning contemporary food to go show and Commercial Kitchen - the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the running of effective, profitable kitchen operations. Diversified Communications UK is part of Diversified Communications, a leading international media company with sector leading exhibitions, conferences, publications and websites.
Dr. Oetker Professional
A partner for unrivalled choice, quality and expertise. We have over 120 years’ experience at the heart of the food industry. Trust, sustainability and credibility are at the core of our business, and we’re continually innovating to ensure our product range is in line with changing consumer demands. We’re proud to provide dedicated support and channel expertise to our pizza and baking partners.
DUG
DUG® is an award-winning plant-based m!lk powered by potatoes. DUG®’s delicious yet neutral taste profile means it can be used just like dairy milk – it doesn’t split, foams brilliantly, and is highly versatile for cooking. DUG® is also super-sustainable - potatoes are twice as land efficient as oats and use 98% less water than almonds. DUG® also benefits from being low in sugar and free from the top 14 allergens.
Egg Soldiers
We are food experts in hospitality and retail. We help food businesses make the most of their food offer – improving sales, covers, spend per head, operations and profitability. Our services – Trends & Insights | Product & Recipe Development | Concept & Menu development | Operational Reviews & Expertise
Contact: hello@eggsoldiers.co.uk
Elior UK
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Elior operates high-profile catering contracts across the B&I, health & care home, defence, education, stadia and heritage sectors. It provides customers with a bespoke offer that focuses on great food, drink and customer service and couples it with the benefits that a large company brings. Elior UK is part of Elior Group which operates worldwide with annual revenues of €6,422 million.
EMW
EMW is a commercial law firm. We offer a full portfolio of legal services, including advice on commercial contracts and trading agreements, help with arrangements surrounding buying, selling or leasing a property, advice on employment issues, assistance with protecting intellectual property, guidance when acquiring or disposing of a business and licencing and regulatory issues. Our clients range from global brands to corporate manufactures, family producers, SMEs and start-ups.
Fairfax Meadow
FEA
FEA (Foodservice Equipment Association) is the leading voice for the Catering Equipment Industry. It is on hand to provide information and advice for, and on behalf of, over 190 companies who manufacture, service and supply equipment and tableware. FEA is also able to give up to date technical and policy information.
FFD Group
The FFD Group is a leading UK supplier of commercial refrigeration, catering equipment and grease management solutions to the food service and hospitality industry. Having equipped businesses such as restaurants, shops, schools and bars through to larger projects supplying chain brands, we have been online for over 16 years and remain committed to providing the ideal equipment for individual requirements and delivering exceptional customer service.
Fourth
Fourth employs 250 people, with offices in London, Cheshire, Connecticut, New York and Ukraine. Fourth is the leading global provider of completely integrated cloud-based solutions for the hospitality and hotel industries covering Labour & Payroll and Inventory & Purchase-to-Pay. Its solutions are used in 54 countries and it has over 1000 customers.
Fresh Food For Now Company
Fresh Food for Now Company is a dedicated team of food to go experts working hard every day to bring great tasting food to retailers across the UK. We believe in making a difference at every food to go fixture, every day, with fresh and tasty food from some of Britain's best-loved brands. Contact us at hello@foodfornow.co.uk or call 0116 236 1640.
FUEL10K
We are FUEL10K. We make morning FUEL for busy people. Our breakfast range will always taste great. It is packed full of nutritious goodness. It is easy to eat wherever you are and whatever you are up to. Whatever your approach to breakfast we have it covered. Some have time to sit down for a bowl of cereal before their day begins. Others need to grab something for on the go as time is super premium. We created our breakfast range to make your mornings easier, tastier and more nutritious. That way you can get on with your day - whatever it may bring.
Fullers Food
Fullers Foods is a family-owned frozen foods business operating across retail and foodservice. We supply across all frozen categories, particularly specialising in potatoes, vegetables, fruit and poultry. We’re the largest supplier of retailer own brand frozen chips, potatoes and vegetables in the UK. Through our 100+ partner manufacturing sites worldwide, we help our customers build a competitive advantage of consolidating a sustainable global supply network within the UK.
FusionFSM
FusionFSM is a specialist provider of sales support and insight for suppliers looking to succeed in the UK foodservice sector. The company’s knowledgeable and dedicated team has a wide network of contacts, with strong relationships with key decision makers in the industry. As an established business (first launched in 2000), the company draws on its extensive market knowledge and intelligence to unleash the potential of brands, enhancing both sales and the end user experiences.
FWD
FWD is the representative body for the UK food and drink distributors who supply and support over 330,000 foodservice operators. We speak for members in the formulation of Government policy and legislation, promote the foodservice opportunity to product suppliers, and bring supply chain partners together to facilitate more efficient distribution and better understanding of the market and its customers.
Gather
Gather provide a high ROI insight and engagement platform, enabling not only your customers and staff to provide feedback, but for the business to see this in operational way exceptionally easily, so you can understand your strengths as well as understand where to focus your efforts to better improve. Resulting in a stronger business as well as giving you competitive advantage. We are so confident in our platform, as an Arena member we would like to give you a free trial for you to see for yourself, how our platform can deliver so many business benefits. Click here to find out more or please email team@wegather.info
Glebe Farm Foods
Glebe Farm is an independent British farm, based near Cambridge, run by brother and sister, Phil & Rebecca, who are experts in pure gluten free oats! We sow, grow, mill, ‘milk’ and pack in Britain. Great tasting and award winning Oat Drink, Porridge, Muesli, Granola and Flour. Gluten free, never from concentrate, dairy free, suitable for vegans and vegetarians. Lowest carbon footprint* of any oat drink on the market. (*we believe).
Hospitality Action
Hospitality Action is the trade charity offering a crucial lifeline to people of all ages, working and retired, from the hospitality industry. Whether they are approached by a chef, housekeeper, school cook or waiter, Hospitality Action will endeavour to support, whatever the difficulty.
HRC
25-27 March 2024
HRC, Hotel, Restaurant & Catering is the home of hospitality. It is the ultimate business event for the UK hospitality industry, welcoming more buying groups and independent decision makers to meet face-to-face with industry suppliers of design, décor & tableware, professional kitchen equipment, hospitality tech solutions, and food and drink products than any other event. HRC delivers innovation and networking opportunities for exhibitors and visitors alike that can't be found anywhere else on this scale.
HRC is co-located with IFE, International Food & Drink Event, IFE Manufacturing, The Pub Show and International Salon Culinaire.
IG Group
IG Group is one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of non-food consumables to the Hospitality Trade. Our Head Office and Distribution Centre are in Peterlee, with a turnover of over £40m. Customer service is paramount, and we offer a professional solution for sourcing, range selection, warehousing, and delivery, supported by high service levels and support. By using Innovation and working closely with our customers, we form genuine partnerships for the future.
IGD
IGD is a research and training charity which sits at the heart of the food and grocery industry. It has a trading subsidiary that provides commercial services. The profits from these commercial services fund the charity.
Invisible Chef
Invisible Chef is a range of high quality ‘Cook & Serve In Pack’ snacks. The products are supplied frozen and cook in their own packaging across multiple devices providing benefits such as ‘Quick Cook’ & ‘Hot Hold’, labour saving, zero waste and allergen control amongst others. This exciting range of products is produced by Mr Crumb, a multi award-winning BRC AA approved speciality food producer founded in 1996.
jellybean
jellybean is a leading independent foodservice agency comprised of a dedicated team of food and drink marketing professionals. We devise communication strategies for some of the biggest brands in hospitality. For 28 years jellybean has had an exemplary reputation for delivering strategic and creative marketing that really helps brands grow out of home.
Johnsons Hotel Restaurant & Catering Linen
Johnsons Hotel Restaurant & Catering Linen provides a specialist linen hire and laundry service. Whether you require a friendly and reliable work wear rental and laundry service to ensure your employees are always looking their best, or you would like crisp, white table linen and napkins in a range of sizes to enhance any dining table, or maybe crisp, white cotton sheets and fluffy luxurious towelling to give your guests a comfy night’s sleep.
For more information, please visit https://www.johnsons-stalbridge.com/
KAM
KAM are research, data and insight experts specialising in foodservice, convenience retail and the wholesale industry. Whether your customer is the end consumer, an independent retailer or a hospitality operator, understanding and influencing every point in the customer journey is vital to any business. Our research and insight services are designed to help you better understand who, why, where and how to create impactful and engaging customer experiences which deliver happy customer and ultimately grow sales.
Kerry
Kerry is the total food & beverage partner empowering foodservice professionals through menu & product development. Through our unique Taste & Nutrition positioning and our applications & insight expertise, we enable our customers to prosper in a constantly changing marketplace.
KFF
KP Snacks
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KP Snacks is part of the Intersnack Group, a family owned, private company that is a long-term investor in its brands, factories and people. KP Snacks has an extensive portfolio of iconic UK brands for all of the family, including McCoy's, Hula Hoops, Pom Bear, KP Nuts, Phileas Fogg and many more. KP is the chosen snack experts, enriching lives every day.
Kraft Heinz
Kraft Heinz Foodservice is the name behind a world-class portfolio of brands. From our renowned condiments, soups and dressings to our new brand of nuts, our products are designed to inspire chefs, excite consumers and innovate menus.
Lakeland Dairies
We are a 100% farmer-owned, farmer-controlled Irish dairy co-operative with a proud heritage of excellence in dairy farming. For over 100 years we have been processing the highest quality, natural, wholesome and nutritious milk, produced in the way nature intended – from cows grazing freely on natural grass grown on the lush pastures of family owned farms – into a range of value-added dairy products.
LOTUS
LOTUS is a multi-award-winning, full-service marketing & PR agency specialising in food, drink & travel. LOTUS is the in-market representative for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) and the Oregon Wine Board. With an exciting portfolio of food, drink & travel clients we specialise in bringing our clients’ provenance, community, and sustainability stories to life.
Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Bakeries is the manufacturer of the world renowned Lotus Biscoff biscuit, served as a complimentary item alongside coffee in cafes, bars, hotels & restaurants globally. With our unique taste, Lotus Biscoff has steadily grown to become a trending brand in the UK in both retail and foodservice since our expansion into the dessert ingredient, sweet spread and ice cream categories.
Lumina Intelligence
Lumina Intelligence inspires the global food and drink sectors with deep, actionable insights powered by the best analytics technology. We combine advanced analytics and expert insight to explain every measure of consumer behaviour within the hospitality markets. Our team of experts are deeply engaged in food and drink and we support our partners with data subscription solutions, insights and reports, as well as bespoke projects tailored to your needs.
lunch!
lunch! is a truly unique trade show that brings the entire industry together. Packed full of everything you need to take your food-to-go offering to the next level – from delicious new food and drink and innovative packaging solutions to leading keynotes and unrivalled networking. For more information please visit www.lunchshow.co.uk
MAPAL
MAPAL OS is the home of best-in-class hospitality solutions, covering all your back of house needs. Flow Learning by MAPAL, our mobile-first learning management solution, engages your team with constantly updated, bite-size learning modules empowering you all to do more of what you love, even better. MAPAL also helps you streamline everything from digital operational checklists, inventory and waste disposal, facilities, team scheduling and optimisation, customer reviews and business analytics.
McCain
McCain works in close partnership with distributors, chefs and caterers across the UK, offering trusted frozen foodservice solutions for thousands of pubs, restaurants, hospitals and schools. With over 50 years’ experience and a commitment to quality right through the supply chain, McCain is proud to be supporting the foodservice industry to get back in the game and accelerate their performance as they emerge from months of Covid-related closures.
McCormick Flavour Solutions
We’re the world’s largest supplier of herbs and spices, developing great flavours for over 125 years. It’s our passion, and we strive to bring you the top trends and ingredients of the future with our annual Flavour Forecast report. Our brands include the renowned Schwartz herbs, spices and seasonings and America’s favourites, Frank’s RedHot and French’s. We’re also proud to say that we’re the supplier partner of choice to some of the world’s leading restaurant brands.
Middleton Foods
Middleton Foods
Established in 1990, Middleton Foods is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of foodservice and bakery pre-mixes; providing products to national suppliers, restaurants, pub chains, education authorities and contract caterers. Our main site and bespoke gluten free production facility are certified as AA following BRC Global Standards and Gluten Free Certification Program Audits for Food Safety. Use our award-winning gluten free products to comply with allergen and nutritional legislation.
Mondelez
At Mondelēz International we offer the Right Snack, at the Right Time, made the Right Way. We offer a wide portfolio of delicious snacks including Chocolate, Biscuits, Candy, Cheese & Beverages products, with iconic brands such as Cadbury, Philadelphia, Oreo, BelVita, Ritz, Green & Black’s and Maynards Bassetts. We put consumers and customers at the centre of all we do and work to drive value to your business.
Montgomery Group
Fresh Montgomery is a market-leading events business. Founded in 1999, it is now part of the Montgomery Group that has been running face-to-face events since 1895. Montgomery is the largest privately owned events business in the UK. We are proud of what we do and work hard to stage innovative, stand-out events for the UK and international foodservice, hospitality & retail industries. Our shows include Hotelympia, The Great Hospitality Show, ScotHot, IFEX, IFE, The Speciality & Fine Food Fair – and many more.
Mozzo
Founded in 2005 by Grant Lang, he believes the best way operators can sell more coffee is to serve great coffee so Mozzo helps businesses make memorable coffee experiences with a full-service coffee partnership. Tailored to individual needs, Mozzo’s team supports operators to elevate the coffee experience through fanatical service, consistent product quality and engaging brand purpose. Mozzo inspires passion and builds coffee confidence with structured training, as well as immersive experience days at the Mozzo Roastery, offering essential practical knowledge.
Muller
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand's international business development
agency. Their role is to make a difference for New Zealand by helping businesses grow bigger,
better, faster in international markets. NZTE's strategy supports the Government's Business
Growth Agenda, which creates conditions that encourage successful businesses to grow
globally.
Nix & Kix Ltd.
Nix & Kix is bringing the ZING to soft drinks with 100% natural & healthy drinks that are still full of flavour. The extra ZING comes from cayenne extract which gives the drink an added kick and unique taste. All our drinks have no added sugar, are vegan, low-calorie, and BCorp certified. All products and packaging are BPA-free, plastic-free, with an A carbon rating.
Notes Coffee Roasters
Nutritics
Nutritics’ software helps businesses unlock the hidden value of food data, to manage recipes, create labels, plan meals, publish menus and measure your carbon footprint. They provide automated, easy-to-use and highly integratable solutions to drive food safety, compliance and increase operational efficiency.
Omne
Omne is the strategic and creative partner agency to the world’s best brands in foodservice and hospitality, working in the UK and across Europe. From long-term strategic plans to stand-out brand activations to breakthrough digital targeting, the agency works as closely with sales teams as it does with marketing to provide truly integrated solutions. Put simply, it’s expertise that identifies, unlocks and accelerates growth.
Pan’ Artisan
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Pan’ Artisan manufactures dough -based products for UK food service including doughballs, pizza bases, topped pizzas and specialty breads, supplemented by an extensive range of exclusively imported Italian wood fired pizzas, pinsas and focaccia romana. We have a preeminent position in our market for product quality, on-trend innovation and customer development /training supported by our team of development chefs. We target to harness traditional, authentic recipes with influences from around the world to generate unique, custom products for our customers.
Peach 2020
Pelican Procurement Services
Pelican is one of the UK’s leading experts in procurement for the hospitality, education and private healthcare sectors. The business manages the purchasing requirements of its customers,with a strong focus on delivering greater productivity, better efficiency and increased profitability across a number of purchasing categories.
Pepsico UK & Ireland
Peter Backman
Peter is an expert on the structure and dynamics of the foodservice sector and its supply chain, both in the UK and internationally. With over 30 years’ experience of analysing the market with data-driven insight, his forthright and challenging views are greatly valued by C-suite executives and investors.
He often speaks at major industry conferences and is regularly quoted in the national and broadcast media on topics such as casual dining, eating out trends and delivery. www.peterbackmanfs.com
Premier Foods
As one of the UK’s largest food businesses, we are passionate about food and believe, each and every day, we have the opportunity to enrich life for everyone. We employ over 4,000 dedicated colleagues operating from 15 sites across the country, supplying a range of retail, wholesale, foodservice and other customers with our iconic brands which feature in millions of homes every day.
Prestige Purchasing
Purity Soft Drinks
THE JUICEBURST™ MISSION
We are refreshingly no-nonsense juice without compromise.JUICEBURST™ not only packs a punch on flavour, but also contains no added sugar, and no artificial colours, flavour or sweeteners. What’s more, every bottle is packed with so much fruit juice it counts as one of your five a day.
London born brand, Firefly, has been leading the way since 2003 with its range of great tasting, revitalising juice drinks boosted with botanical extracts. In 2015, Firefly underwent a vibrant redesign. The iconic bottles with their synonymous black and white imagery now feature a new Firefly symbol, botanical drawings and even better flavours.
Rich Products
Rich Products Corporation is one of the world’s largest family-owned food companies and a leading global supplier to the foodservice, in-store bakery, retail, and industrial marketplaces. We manufacture and sell an expansive array of delicious products in more than 100 countries spanning six continents. We’re acclaimed for our creative solutions and on-trend innovations that provide unparalleled business-building capabilities for our customers across the globe.
Rollover
Rollover
RSPCA Assured
RSPCA Assured is the RSPCA’s farm assurance scheme and ethical food label dedicated to higher farm animal welfare.
The use of the RSPCA Assured label makes it easy to recognise products from animals that have had a better life. It raises consumer awareness, builds confidence and trust in the provenance and traceability of the supply chain and supports the CSR aspirations of companies involved with the scheme.
Smart Group Ltd
The Smart Group is a dynamic collection of hospitality, catering and event management businesses with over 20 years’ experience; founded and led by CEO, Greg Lawson, and consisting of Smart Christmas Parties, Smart Live, Smart Hospitality, Smart Sport, Moving Venue and Battersea Evolution. Smart Group is also the sole in-house caterers of several venues across the capital including Landing Forty Two and Here East. The Group has hosted, catered and managed a huge variety of events, from international sporting events such as the Royal Ascot Village, Olympics & Wimbledon to corporate and charitable functions including the Sports Industry Awards, as well as Christmas parties for Mercedes-Benz Formula One and conferences for Adobe and Google.
Sodexo UK & Ireland
Sodexo is the world’s largest services provider and the 18th largest employer worldwide. In the UK and Ireland its 35,000 people deliver quality of life services to clients at some 2,300 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, justice and defence sectors.
Speed Communications
Award-winning PR agency serving clients worldwide. With 30 years’ experience and specialist divisions in B2B and B2C, we represent some of the most respected – and largest brands – in foodservice and hospitality.. Delivering PR with Power, alongside digital & production expertise.
Spoonfed
Spoonfed is a leading provider of catering software to the institutional market, where customers include both self-operated organisations and the leading global contract catering providers, in turn serving global brands in the business, education, defence and leisure sectors, as well as retail and restaurant operators. Combining an intuitive, white-labelled online ordering platform with comprehensive back of house management, caterers benefit from a richly featured solution, configured to their needs.
Springboard UK
Springboard UK
Stonegate Group
Originally formed in 2010 with 333 pubs, Stonegate Group is now the largest pub company in the UK following 12 major acquisitions. Our vast portfolio is now home to 4,500 sites which range from Leased & Tenanted to Operator Led and Managed. We strongly believe that the pub is at the heart of British culture, and we strive to deliver a fantastic guest experience.
Sturdy Foods
Sturdy Foods provides exceptional quality pizza products for food service operators who want to reduce labour costs, delight their customers and increase their profits. Over many years we’ve worked with operators of all sizes from single sites to multi-site chains to help them drive exceptional service and increase their revenue and profits. With today’s consumer looking for increased value for experience, we’ve developed a depth of market knowledge that helps food service operators increase their sales and profits by helping them understand in detail exactly what their customers want from them.
Symington’s Foodservice
Symington’s Foodservice – Making Great Food Simple! We are a market leading branded and own label provider of ambient meal solutions out of home “delivering great flavour and taste ALWAYS”. Our production facilities are based in the UK. Our brands include Naked Noodle, Naked Rice, Mugshot, Oatburst. We have a huge breadth of capabilities including dry goods (snackpots), wet ambient meals, Home Baking (savoury, sweet), croutons, “Free from” wet and dry meal solutions.
Sysco Speciality Group
At Sysco Specialty Group we strive to be your most trusted business partner, supporting our customers' businesses in every way we can. We are a family of Speciality Businesses, offering an extensive fresh and speciality range, guaranteed to enhance every menu and keep our customers ahead of the game. We are part of Sysco the premier worldwide foodservice provider.
The Soho Sandwich Company
Our ambition is to be the UK’s No.1 sandwich brand, loved by everyone because we deliver the highest quality, each and every time. Using the finest ingredients from partners we trust, together we handcraft flavours that keep customers coming back for more. We love what we do and we have created a delicious range of sandwiches, bagels, wraps, hot boxes, salads, toasties, paninis, stone-baked baguettes and snack pots, The Soho Way.
Tilda Foodservice
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Tilda Foodservice has been providing professional chefs with premium quality, great tasting rice since 1994. Now in convenient Ready to Heat sachets, as well as ambient and frozen. The speciality range, endorsed by The Craft Guild of Chefs, includes a whole host of rice varieties to enhance meals from all over the world. Starting with our foodservice signature grain – Easy Cook Basmati, all the way to school favourite, Tilda Brown & White. Together with chefs, Tilda Rice can help to elevate every plate!
Troncmasters
Troncmasters provide independent Troncmasters services for hospitality businesses wishing to take advantage of the tax savings associated with distributing discretionary tips and service charges through a tronc scheme. To implement a Tronc scheme you need an independent Troncmaster and many companies choose to outsource their Tronc scheme to an external Troncmaster. We provide a range of services to set up and run your tronc scheme, ensuring compliance, fairness, seamless tip distribution.
TWC Group
TWC is a data and digital consultancy – we harness data to empower the wholesale, foodservice and convenience channels. With a vision for these channels to be truly data led, we are passionate about helping our clients thrive and we provide a unique blend of data services, digital platforms and unrivalled knowledge, designed to drive growth for operators and their suppliers. Everything we do is underpinned by our values of transparency, loyalty, ambition and customer-centricity.
UCC Coffee UK & Ireland
We create coffee experiences for the most dynamic businesses in foodservice, hospitality and retail, making every cup of coffee count.
Working in partnership with our customers, our Total Coffee Solution – including coffee, equipment, maintenance, training, insight and branding – ensures that they serve consistent quality coffee, at scale.
Our Total Coffee Solution delivers coffee excellence. Guaranteed.
Unitas Wholesale
Unitas Wholesale is the UK’s largest independent wholesale buying group with a network of 155 members and a buying power in excess of £8billion. We pride ourselves on being a true champion of independent businesses. Supporting our wholesalers with deals and solutions that help not only their businesses grow, but their customers too, is at the heart of everything we do. Our national network of wholesalers provides everything from big brand names and own label to local produce and specialist products. Our foodservice customers benefit from tailored trading strategies designed to help them grow. Our Caterers Kitchen own brand, which has seen +50% growth in the last year, has a very important role to play with over 300 lines. The scale of Unitas enables us to buy key commodities at competitive prices for our members. Alongside central terms for over 300 suppliers, Unitas gives our members and ultimately their foodservice customers the ability to compete effectively.
Vegetarian Express
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The original plant-based foodies. We’ve been nuts about plant-based food since 1987 and have been inspiring and sharing ideas with like-minded chefs ever since. We search the world to bring you the most vibrant and authentic ingredients; from mind-blowing plant-proteins, to authentic ancient grains, pulses and spices, we’ve got over a thousand ingredients in our larder. And if you need a bit more inspiration, head over to seed-bank.co.uk, with over 400 recipes, making it easy for you to put vibrant, exciting plant-based food on your menus.
Vegware
Vestey Foods
At Vestey Foods we specialise in the sourcing, development, import and delivery of Food products to the UK market. Our expertise covers poultry, pork, beef, lamb, and fish and seafood, in addition to ration packs and a full catering range serviced from our own distribution network.
Our goal is to be the pivotal link in the food chain, enabling our customers to access the supply market more effectively whilst providing competitive advantage through our innovation.
Wafflemeister
Wafflemeister was founded in 2009 with a singular focus to provide original great tasting waffles to everyone. The company has more than 35 branded outlets across the UK’s most popular locations including Oxford Street, Marble Arch, Alton Towers, Legoland, Thorpe Park, and Butlins. Wafflemeister launched in foodservice in 2021 with all major national wholesalers. It is now the largest provider of waffles in the UK wholesale market, selling over 40 million waffles a year from over 10,000 locations in the hospitality, contract catering, education, travel and healthcare sectors.
Weetabix
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From our base in the heart of the English countryside, The Weetabix Food Company has been creating delicious breakfast cereals since 1932. We produce some of the UK’s favourite breakfast cereals including Weetabix (Officially the UK’s favourite breakfast) ,Alpen Muesli, Ready brek, Weetabix Mini’s, Oatibix, and Weetos. We also offer our delicious Alpen Bars and Weetabix On The Go Drinks which have sold over 100 million bottles since launch. We’re committed to growing sustainable ingredients, reducing packing waste, making our factories more efficient and helping local communities. From the fields to your kitchen, we aim to make a big difference with every bowl. Have you had yours?
WiHTL
Wildfarmed
Wildfarmed is for those who choose not to control nature. We invite farmers, bakers and shoppers to question what’s real. To demand food that’s been farmed in real soil. To amplify the real impact to the way the land is used. And to savour a real taste of what’s to come.
William Reed Exhibitions
Wismettac Harro Foods Ltd
Wismettac, established in Kobe, Japan in 1912, is now one of the oldest and most experienced importers, wholesaler, and distributors of Asian food products across the world. We expanded our network of clients from Japanese restaurants to prepared food manufacturers, foodservice providers, and traditional retailers. With food safety and innovation at the core of our operations, our focus is to deliver great customer service and new solutions for our customers.
Yeo Valley
As farmers we know first-hand the impact climate change is having on our planet. The environmental and social challenges that are facing the world have never been greater. For over 25 years we’ve tried to make good choices. Our commitment to bringing you delicious, affordable organic food that supports healthy and sustainable diets is stronger than ever. We’re here to help you make every day sustainable choices one glass, spoon or bowl at a time
William Murray PR & Marketing
Food. Drink. Hospitality. We don’t get distracted by anything else. That’s why we are the UKs leading PR & marketing agency. Our clients tell us that they value our thinking, specialist knowledge and network. Creative campaigns. Talented team. Remarkable results. That’s what we bring to the table. If you’d like to discuss how we can help you generate more sales through PR, marketing and telling your brand story, then pull up a chair.