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Companies embark on first food and drink trade development visit to Finland and Sweden Sixteen Welsh food and drink companies are preparing to fly out to Finland and Sweden with the aim to find new trading opportunities in these markets. Supported by the Welsh Government, the Food and Drink Wales trade development delegation is the first to visit Scandinavia concentrating solely on food and drink. According to Rebecca Evans, the Deputy Minister for Farming and...

Companies embark on first food and drink trade development visit to Finland and Sweden Sixteen Welsh food and drink companies are preparing to fly out to Finland and Sweden with the aim to find new trading opportunities in these markets. Supported by the Welsh Government, the Food and Drink Wales trade development delegation is the first to visit Scandinavia concentrating solely on food and drink. According to Rebecca Evans, the Deputy Minister for Farming and...

Two Welsh companies are celebrating today after winning in one of the UK's top food awards. The Great Taste Awards, referred to as the Oscars of the food world, were held in London last night. Apple County Cider Company scooped the Golden Fork from Wales award and Ty Tanglwyst Dairy received the prestigious Nigel Barden Heritage Award. Having already been awarded three stars by the Great Taste for its Vilberie Medium Dry Cider, Apple County...

Two Welsh companies are celebrating today after winning in one of the UK's top food awards. The Great Taste Awards, referred to as the Oscars of the food world, were held in London last night. Apple County Cider Company scooped the Golden Fork from Wales award and Ty Tanglwyst Dairy received the prestigious Nigel Barden Heritage Award. Having already been awarded three stars by the Great Taste for its Vilberie Medium Dry Cider, Apple County...

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Welsh exhibitors at the Speciality Fine Food Fair this year, the UK’s leading showcase event for the food and drink sector, have a lot to ‘sing’ about following the announcement of a record number of Great Taste 2015 winners. The acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink, The Great Taste, awarded 10 products from Wales with the prestigious 3-star accolade, compared to only 3 the previous year, and with it the chance of becoming the...

Welsh exhibitors at the Speciality Fine Food Fair this year, the UK’s leading showcase event for the food and drink sector, have a lot to ‘sing’ about following the announcement of a record number of Great Taste 2015 winners. The acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink, The Great Taste, awarded 10 products from Wales with the prestigious 3-star accolade, compared to only 3 the previous year, and with it the chance of becoming the...

Great Taste, the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink, has today announced a record number of Welsh winners, with 10 products across Wales achieving the prestigious 3-star accolade in 2015, compared to 3 the previous year. Judged in Wales for the first time this year by a whole host of experts, including Xanthe Clay, Charles Campion and many other chefs, buyers, restaurateurs and writers, the panel unanimously agreed that the following ten products in...

Great Taste, the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink, has today announced a record number of Welsh winners, with 10 products across Wales achieving the prestigious 3-star accolade in 2015, compared to 3 the previous year. Judged in Wales for the first time this year by a whole host of experts, including Xanthe Clay, Charles Campion and many other chefs, buyers, restaurateurs and writers, the panel unanimously agreed that the following ten products in...

Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Food & Farming, Rebecca Evans AM, has welcomed the launch of Food Innovation Wales and its aspirations to support the Food and Drink Action Plan in meeting its growth plans of 30% by the year 2020. Wales’s three food centres have re-launched themselves as Food Innovation Wales, a body which will use its expertise and unrivalled access to the food processing sector to create not only new food products but...