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As the highlight of the agricultural calendar opens its doors this week, Food and Drink Wales has released figures demonstrating the event continues to be a crucial place for the industry when it comes to meeting retailers and sealing potentially lucrative deals. Figures released today, following a 12 month tracking exercise, show that sales totalling £1.4 million can be directly attributed to business relationships developed from the Food and Drink Wales business lounge during the...

Nine food and drink festivals across Wales have received funding from the Welsh Government to help support their events and strengthen Wales’ reputation of producing high quality food, in the first round of applications received before the end of May. The funding will help showcase the best of Welsh food and drink to people living and visiting Wales by supporting the nine festivals taking place across Wales. Food festivals play an important role in the...

Nine food and drink festivals across Wales have received funding from the Welsh Government to help support their events and strengthen Wales’ reputation of producing high quality food, in the first round of applications received before the end of May. The funding will help showcase the best of Welsh food and drink to people living and visiting Wales by supporting the nine festivals taking place across Wales. Food festivals play an important role in the...

Leading seafood businesses from across Wales have journeyed across the Irish Sea this week with their sights set on learning new ways to grow both their catch and their profits. The three day visit to Ireland (23-26 May), organised as part of the Welsh Government Seafood Cluster, aims to highlight current innovation that exists within the Irish seafood market and consider how that could be replicated here in Wales. During the visit delegates will be...

Leading seafood businesses from across Wales have journeyed across the Irish Sea this week with their sights set on learning new ways to grow both their catch and their profits. The three day visit to Ireland (23-26 May), organised as part of the Welsh Government Seafood Cluster, aims to highlight current innovation that exists within the Irish seafood market and consider how that could be replicated here in Wales. During the visit delegates will be...

Fifteen Welsh food and drink companies are getting ready to embark on a trade development visit to Denmark and Norway with the aim of finding new trading opportunities in these markets. Supported by the Welsh Government, the Food and Drink Wales trade development visit to Copenhagen and Oslo from 23-27 May 2016, will provide companies with critical insight and commercial contacts in two important and diverse markets for Welsh food and drink. Fifteen companies will...

Fifteen Welsh food and drink companies are getting ready to embark on a trade development visit to Denmark and Norway with the aim of finding new trading opportunities in these markets. Supported by the Welsh Government, the Food and Drink Wales trade development visit to Copenhagen and Oslo from 23-27 May 2016, will provide companies with critical insight and commercial contacts in two important and diverse markets for Welsh food and drink. Fifteen companies will...

As another large delegation of Welsh producers prepares to head off to the Brussels Seafood Global EXPO, Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans has today spoken of the importance of the seafood sector to our growth plans for the food industry in Wales. Six companies are travelling to Brussels at the end of this month, all flying the flag for Welsh food and drink, to exhibit before more than 25,000 buyers and suppliers...

As another large delegation of Welsh producers prepares to head off to the Brussels Seafood Global EXPO, Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans has today spoken of the importance of the seafood sector to our growth plans for the food industry in Wales. Six companies are travelling to Brussels at the end of this month, all flying the flag for Welsh food and drink, to exhibit before more than 25,000 buyers and suppliers...

Food & Drink Wales – Stand no: N150, P150 & P160 in Hall 6 A large number of Welsh food and drink companies are preparing to attend the UK’s largest and most well respected food and drink trade exhibition. Over 1200 exhibitors will be present at Food & Drink Expo in Birmingham next month (18-20 April 2016), all looking to find new buyers and distributors. Supported by the Welsh Government, the Food and Drink Wales...