Diversification
How to add a new arm to your business
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Food bank donation service Bankuet wins Speciality Food’s Covid innovation competition
14 August 2020 CoronavirusThe start-up aims to make it easier for food banks to receive donations and the supplies they need, while ensuring lower prices and zero waste -
An unexpected reinvention: Blackthorn Salt
11 August 2020 CoronavirusWhen Covid-19 hit, new speciality business Blackthorn Salt had to drastically rethink its plans. The husband and wife team Gregorie and Whirly Marshall and explains how, with an inventive blend of creativity, passion and staying true to the cause, they made it work -
Industry Speaks: The Future of Cheese Report 2020
24 July 2020 CoronavirusSpeciality Food has spoken to professionals across the cheese industry to get an up-to-date picture of the sector as it stands in the wake of Covid-19 -
Dales café transforms into a farm shop and deli after Covid-19
08 July 2020 CoronavirusNina Matsunaga and James Ratcliffe plan to sell local produce from Three Hares Bakery after the pandemic made it impossible to reopen their café -
How I pivoted my drinks business to survive Covid-19
01 July 2020 CoronavirusDavid Wood, director of The Liana Cocktail Company, reimagined his drinks distribution business, pivoting the brand into an interactive cocktail retailer in a matter of weeks in order to survive the coronavirus pandemic -
Industry calls for innovative businesses to share their COVID-19 story
29 June 2020 CoronavirusShare your pivot story for a chance to win media coverage worth £750 -
Are we on the brink of a British food revolution?
01 June 2020 CoronavirusA post-Covid landscape can offer a beacon of light for British independents and producers, but this will depend on their continued collaboration, innovation and adaptability says Charlotte Smith of Great British Food -
Irish dairy revives doorstep delivery in wake of Coronavirus
01 April 2020 CoronavirusA new ‘farm to door’ fresh milk delivery service has been launched by Ballylisk Dairies in Tandragee, one of Armagh’s best known dairy farms. Ballylisk Dairies will soon be supplying fresh milk cartons around the Portadown-Armagh City area in a new community initiative aimed especially at… -
Business continuity in the face of Covid-19
01 April 2020 Coronavirus“Hawkshead Relish was founded in adversity some 20 years ago during the UK foot and mouth outbreak,” explains co-founder Maria Whitehead -
Don’t bet against fleet-footed food & drink SMEs surviving the Coronavirus
30 March 2020 CoronavirusAt first glance one might assume that small food and drinks businesses would be some of the first casualties of the current coronavirus landscape with their lean ranges and limited cashflow, says Ian Hills of Purple Pilchard -
How To Adapt & Survive
23 March 2020 CoronavirusThese are uncertain times for businesses big and small. But, as with any period of adversity, it brings opportunity: for creativity, for diversifying, for adapting business models, for experimenting with new routes to customers and, in doing so, for connecting with them, in a unique spirit… -
Covid-19: producer perspective
19 March 2020 CoronavirusLisa Smith, owner of Ginger Bakers, Plumgarths, Kendal, Cumbria exclusively shares her experience with Speciality Food
