News and events

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.

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.

The Atlantic Area Healthy Food Eco-Systems project will provide training and business support services to SME's working in this area. Welsh SME's in the healthy Food and Drink sector are invited to participate in a survey to help shape the training and services offered.

Crickets and beetles could become a common part of our diets, thanks to new academic research.

To assist you with the new measures that will come into place, we have organised several webinars that will provide you with further information to enable you to continue to move animal products, plants and plant products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

FareShare Cymru, surplus food redistribution charity receives generous frozen food donation from S.A. Brain, following the closure of pubs & restaurants.

Newtown based honey producer, Hilltop has been recognised as one of Wales’s fastest growing companies in this year’s Wales Fast Growth 50 List, 2020.

Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Welsh food and drink industry has embraced the opportunity to innovate and change with international trade events and visits being replaced by virtual trade missions to countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

Chambers Wales have put together this online course, tailored to the Welsh food and drink sector to help you understand the uses of commodity and tariff codes and guide you using the correct codes for your products.

In March 2020, the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Frank Atherton wrote to 125,000 clinically vulnerable people requesting them to take shielding measures, including staying at home for 12 weeks. As a result of this advice the Welsh Government explored the provision of food boxes for those people in Wales who had no family or friends for support, or were unable to access online food deliveries due to unprecedented demand.