Webinars

The most recent member webinar was on Thursday 21 July and was on the subject of Future Food Trends.

The Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Association and the British Sandwich Association held a webinar on the subject of ‘Delivery’ on Thursday 28 April at 2.30pm.

With consumer demand for the convenience of delivery increasing, food businesses are under pressure to provide this service in order to maintain the volume of sales they need.

The recent Association member Webinar was entitled ‘The changing high street and how it is likely to evolve going forward’. It took place on Thursday 21 April at 3.30pm.

The speakers were Diane Wehrle, Marketing and Insights Director of Springboard, and Michele Young, founder and Director of Foodservice Support.

The Environmental Challenges of packaging is the latest webinar, organised by The British Sandwich & Food to Go Association and the Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Association.

This member webinar took place on Wednesday 26 January at 3.00 pm where foodservice expert Peter Backman discussed how he sees the market developing over the coming year, the likely pressures (financial, squeezed consumers etc) through to up and coming trends for 2022 (plant-based, delivery etc).

Join us for our technical meeting webinar. Topics include genome sequencing; climate labelling & its business value plus using light to detect bacterial or biofilms and decontaminate the surface.

Kantar research on what happened in the food to go sector during the pandemic and what the future looks like.

A recording of the ALS Laboratories Webinar is now available for members to view.

Lumina Intelligence UK is a leading research organisation covering the UK food to go market.   In this member meeting, Katie Prowse shared exclusive data from their Food To Go Market Report 2021.

29/4/2021 at 2.30pm - Over the course of the pandemic there has been increased focus on lean manufacturing systems and removing people, paper and even audit visits from the equation. Even training has moved out of the classroom.   Has the pandemic led to permanent change and is a more technology enabled and streamlined approach that is here to stay? 

In this session we examined some of the trends from some of those leading this transformation:

Speakers included:

Mike Wilson, Chief Automation Officer, The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO) set up to bridge the gap between academia and industry.     Mike discussed work they have been doing to increase automation in the food industry.

Simon Bos and Hugo Walker, Mezze, discussed the technology they have developed for streamlining order management systems and Customer Service within the UK FTG industry

Nick Edwards, Papaya UK, discussed how technology can provide real time compliance management information and communication within food manufacturing.

Members can login to get access to a recording of the webinar.

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The market is set to undergo changes as it emerges from lockdown but it is expected to bounce back strongly and grow beyond where it was before COVID arrived, according to researchers at Mealtrak who presented to a members meeting on 15th April 2021.

Webinar presentation on future Food To Go Trends that the IGD gave to members.