FOOD Centre Wales in Horeb hosted a very successful ‘Going for Growth’ event to help local food and drink businesses to focus their attention on developing and reaching new markets.

The event was well attended with over 70 attendees, mainly consisting of local food and drink producers as well as other business support agencies.

Leader of Ceredigion County Council, Cllr Ellen ap Gwynn, said: “The food industry is one of the main industries in the county, with some 3,700 people working in it and, of course, based on our excellent agricultural products.

Some of the most strategic and iconic companies of the food sector in Wales have sites in Ceredigion, for example, Rachel’s, Dunbia (formerly Oriel Jones), Ty Nant and Volac.

Horeb Food Centre has served most of the Ceredigion food and drink companies since it opened in 1996. We are very pleased that the Centre has also successfully provided services to many other companies across Wales and beyond.”

Rachel Rowlands, founder of Rachel’s Organic, opened the event by sharing her experience of growing a food business. Welsh Government presented the latest industry research data to help businesses identify potential growth areas for their businesses. Ruth Davies from Cwm Farm, who shared her experience of product development, supplying Selfridges and exporting.

Arwyn Davies, new business development manager for Food Centre Wales, talked about how food and drink producers can benefit from the support offered by the Food Technologists and the HELIX project.

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