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North Wales bee farmer, Laurence Edwards, is turning up his honey’s temperature with the launch of a new enterprise – Hot Fire Honey.

With international travel not a viable option at the moment due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Welsh food and drink companies are embracing the new way of doing business virtually.

We are inviting applications from Food and Drink Wales Export Club members to participate in a Food and Drink Wales supported virtual Trade Development Visit targeting Switzerland.

Yellow and Blue (YAB Group Ltd) is a social enterprise which has been operating in Wrexham for the past three years.

BioInnovation Wales is offering free distance learning courses focused around the circular economy, with a number of these centred around food and drink production and processing

The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement secured tariff-free trade for businesses trading between the UK and EU following the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. However, to qualify for this tariff and quota-free trade, firms need to comply with Rules of Origin specified by the deal. This one-hour webinar will give an overview of these new rules.

Although people are unable to visit ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still running our Meet ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre events online so companies can find out more about the support we can offer.

Siop.io is a local bilingual e-commerce platform that has been developed over the past year in order to provide a better way for independent food and drink retailers across Gwynedd and Anglesey to reach their local communities. Restaurants, pubs and takeaways will also shortly be able to benefit from the service, which will allow them to compete more effectively with supermarkets through the fulfilment of online orders placed locally.

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is a process that combines plant science, engineering and technology to optimise plant growing, plant quality and production efficiency to provide a truly sustainable system of food growing. To date the approaches to CEA have been vastly different, un-co-ordinated and largely un-supported. Through this pilot we will offer real growth potential at a scale that is impactful, replicable and delivers wider benefits for the region.

As part of the Food & Drink Wales Covid-19 Recovery Plan, Levercliff will be delivering a series of 10 webinars in January 2021 designed to provide Welsh Food & Drink producers with Retail Market Intelligence on relevant categories.