Member Event: How to: Start a Food and Drink Business

About this event How to: Start a Food and Drink Business has a new edition! Topics The course will be delivered in four 3-hour sessions covering the following topics: Session 1 – 13th March – Developing the Right Product

• Idea generation and screening
• Market research
• Product specifications
• Feasibility study
• Process development
• Prototype development
• Launch

Session 2 – 20th March – Customers & Where to Find Them

• Customers
• Branding
• Price
• Marketing

Session 3 – 27th March – How it’s Made & How it Gets There

• Production machinery and equipment
• Packaging
• Route to market

Session 4 – 3rd April – The Business & Making It Happen

• Financial forecasting
• Business model
• Vision

  You will be given an overview of the elements of running your own food business, and you will have the confidence to drive your business forward successfully. Who is this course for? This course is for any business that has recently registered with Companies House or HMRC within the last two years and needs some additional support. Please note, to qualify for this free course, you have to be a food or drink manufacturing company within its’ first two years of setting up. Speaker Nick Smith is employed by Hethel Innovation as their ERDF Food Advisor. Nick has a wealth of knowledge within the food and drinks industry and even more so with advising businesses. Nick is passionate about supporting start-up businesses and enjoys supporting the process from business plan to see the business develop. He is the perfect speaker to display enthusiasm and get your food and drink start-up business off of the ground!