News and events

Recruitment is now underway to exhibit with the Welsh Government under the Food and Drink Wales banner at Food & Drink Expo, Birmingham 30th March – 1st April 2020.

Over 100,000 buyers attend Gulfood to deliver the widest selection of food and drink choice to over 200 countries.

Full day NPD ideas workshop for Welsh food & drink companies.

A cross-section of Wales’ leading drinks producers are primed to take orders from some of the UK’s leading pub groups, as the Food and Drink Wales Drinks Cluster takes a stand at PUB20.

The latest industry figures reveal a record turnover figure of £7.473 billion for Wales’ food and drink sector in 2019, surpassing the ambitious target set in 2014 to achieve 30% growth and reach £7billion of sales by 2020. In 2018, 73% of all Welsh food and drink exports went to the European Union.

Senior and junior chefs who will be cooking for Wales at the prestigious IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany next month were given an enthusiastic send off by Assembly Members today (Wednesday).

Gulfood is recognised as one of the world’s largest food trade events that Wales has a long association with, which has helped to bring an array of Welsh produce to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.

The latest industry figures reveal a record-breaking turnover of £7.473 billion in 2019, surpassing the ambitious target set in 2014 to achieve 30% growth and reach £7billion of sales by 2020. In 2018, 73% of all Welsh food & drink exports went to the European Union.

Lesley Griffiths, the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs has congratulated Wales' thriving Food and Drink Sector for achieving record turnover figures.

In 2014, the Welsh Government published an action plan for food and drink, ‘Towards Sustainable Growth’. It set out a vision, a mission and a long term plan with actions to accomplish them.