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Pembrokeshire’s Coedcanlas Organic Welsh Blackcurrant Jam receives top regional title at the Great Taste Golden Fork Awards 2017 Artisan food producer Coedcanlas is celebrating after securing one of the food and drink industry’s most illustrious awards. The Great Taste Awards, referred to as the Oscars of the food world, were held in London last night and the Pembrokeshire company’s Organic Welsh Blackcurrant Jam was crowned the Golden Fork from Wales. From the five Welsh products...

Exceptional food and drink producers from across Wales are showcasing in the Great Taste Celebration Event in Cardiff Bay, following gold starred success at the UK’s Great Taste Awards. Food and drink producers from across Wales who have been triumphant in gaining elusive gold stars at the UK-leading Great Taste awards have been invited to exhibit their award winning produce, in celebration of their success at the St David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay on Tuesday...

The Welsh Government’s Food and Drink Wales has launched a new guide to help retailers promote Welsh food and drink ahead of St David’s Day 2017 celebrations. Entitled ‘This is a Celebration. This is Wales’, the toolkit aims to provide retailers - from major stores such as Waitrose, John Lewis and Partridges in London, all multiple retailers, to smaller enterprises and farm shops - with the resources and ideas to promote Welsh food and drink...

Some of Wales’ exciting food and drink producers are heading to Milan today in search for new export trading opportunities. As part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to raise Wales’ global profile as a first-class place to do business, it is supporting nine producers to visit Milan from the 24-28 June. This follows Italian interest in some of these products during the recent TasteWales event organised by the Welsh Government, which showcased over 800 Welsh...

Welsh food and drink producers will be turning their sights to the important export market of the USA next month in search of new and competitive export trading opportunities. As part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to raising Wales’s business profile on the global stage, it is supporting fifteen Welsh food and drink companies on a visit to New York and New Jersey from 17-20 September. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley...

Welsh food and drink companies are preparing to attend one of the world’s premier food exhibitions in Paris this month (16 to 20 October 2016). Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) is a biennial fair and has developed into the food industry’s front-line event – the ultimate place to discover today’s food trends and explore tomorrow’s innovations. The Welsh Government’s Food and Drink Wales will play host to 15 Welsh companies from across the sector, all...

Food lovers from across North Wales and beyond will be heading for Gwledd Conwy Feast later this month (October 28-29) and along with them producers of some of Wales’ most iconic products. Featured at Conwy Feast will be the growing ‘family’ of Welsh products safeguarded under the European Union Protected Food Name scheme. These diverse products will step into the limelight in displays, demonstrations and tasting sessions as food and drink take centre stage in...

Food and drink companies from across Wales will be looking to the important export market of Spain, where they will be given the opportunity to showcase their quality and innovative produce to a host of distributors and retail buyers, and secure new business. The Welsh Government’s Food and Drink Wales is leading the Trade Development Visit to the nation’s lively capital city, Madrid later this month (15-17 November 2016). Fifteen food and drink companies, ranging...

Record number of entries from Wales in this year’s Great Taste awards The prestigious Great Taste Awards judging process will be held in north Wales this year at Llandrillo College, Nr Colwyn Bay from the 24-26 May 2017. A host of chefs, buyers, restaurateurs, journalists and food writers – including the BBC’s Nigel Barden, Channel 4’s Felicity Spector and food critic Charles Campion will be blind tasting the vast array of Welsh products eager to...

The Royal Welsh Show’s food hall and trade lounge was a vibrant hub of food and drink acivity at this year's Royal Welsh Show with producers building on a successful period of growth for the industry. Research shows activity over the last two years in the dedicated trade and business area, which is organised by Food & Drink Wales, has directly resulted in producer sales totalling over £2 million. This year’s event saw 250 companies...