News and events

Ensuring north Wales food and drink producers can play a central role in post pandemic economic recovery was one of the key messages at a virtual conference held this week.

During these difficult times for businesses, Ridiculously Rich by Alana, a luxury cake making business owned and run by BBC Apprentice 2016 winner Alana Spencer, is growing and expanding thanks to help and support from Food Centre Wales.

Morale-boosting support and collaboration are helping Welsh food and drink companies overcome the challenges of Covid-19 and maintain their winning ways.

The Great Taste awards, recognised as the world’s most coveted food and drink awards, have announced their stars of 2020, and a multitude of delicious Welsh food and drink products have been commended with a gold seal of approval.

Part of the government support for businesses during the pandemic has been the release of record levels of debt finance into the economy to help businesses trade through the crisis. Join our panel of equity finance experts to find out more.

An international cluster study pilot for Welsh food and drink businesses commenced on 18 September as part of the Welsh Government’s strategy for the food and drink sector to develop and further harness our European partnerships.

Building on the principles of Prosperity for All and the Economic Action Plan, and taking into account the lessons of dealing with the Covd-19 pandemic, the Welsh Government will launch a virtual public consultation on their Manufacturing Plan.

Getting the right advice about structure, tax and VAT is a prerequisite for success. If you are like many food and drink businesses and are sometimes uncertain how the VAT rules on food and drink apply or worry about the pricing in EPOS systems, on-line and having the management information that can reconcile these elements, then this webinar is for you.

A new sustainable food packaging hub is being established at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Cymru (AMRC Cymru) in Broughton thanks to a £2m financial investment from the Welsh Government.

This webinar will highlight the different e-commerce models and talk through pricing and margin models to ensure that your e-commerce model adds to, rather than detracts from, your profitability.