IFE - International Food & Drink Event

What a wonderful night at Quality Food Awards yesterday! 🏆✨ We had a great time with the Speciality & Fine Food Fair team catching up with our industry friends and celebrating this year’s bronze, silver and gold winners. Huge congratulations to all the winners- unveiled here!👏 https://lnkd.in/dJXTQS2F #QFA24 #IFE #FDHW25 #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry #awards #foodanddrink Federico Dellafiore Aimee Moore Rachael Tsang Sam Bennetts Megan S. Amy Spargo

Tonight, we are so excited to be attending Quality Food Awards. ✨ The QFA is the longest running, most prestigious awards in the UK food industry and will be an excellent evening of networking and celebrating the best products in the grocery retail and foodservice sectors 🥂 Plus our Event Manager Federico Dellafiore will be presenting the Supplier of the Year category 🏆 Read more about the categories 👉 here https://lnkd.in/dB9mgPWP We hope to see some of you there! #IFE #FDHW #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry #awards

Discover the ultimate platform for connecting with industry-leading buyers at #IFE25! ✨ This is your chance to showcase your products directly to top-tier buyers spanning across retail🛒, foodservice🍽️, wholesale📦, distribution🚚, hospitality🏨, and import & export🌍. As the UK’s largest and most impactful product sourcing event, IFE brings together over 30,000 influential buyers - 82% of whom hold significant purchasing power. Explore the benefits of exhibiting and connect with our team today to secure your spot! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d9HXgzsd #IFE #FDHW #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry

Meet Megan S., our amazing Content Executive working across Food, Drink & Hospitality Week! ✨ Megan is responsible for planning engaging seminar content with outstanding speakers to bring the latest industry insight to you. 👋 #meettheteam. Moving from America a few years ago, Megan loves European city breaks, walking, trying London’s delicious food and F1. Want to be involved with our seminar programme? Get in touch with the team today - simply click on #linkinbio. #IFE #FDHW #IFE25 #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry

🌱🌍 Happy #WorldVeganDay! 🌍🌱   Today we celebrate ways to support a kinder, greener world - from delicious plant-based recipes to sustainable products, events, food festivals, and community activities - to encourage people to learn, try something new, and make a positive impact. 💚     Plus, November is a big month for The Vegan Society the world’s oldest vegan charity established in November 1944, and we are delighted to have them onboard again as our partner to the Vegan and Plant-Based Section at #IFE25!   If you offer plant-powered produce and creative products, then this section is for you! Enquire here today >> https://lnkd.in/dmqfgxQx   #IFE #FDHW #IFE25 #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry

📢 New month, new announcements - Introducing our 2025 Ambassadors! 📢 We are excited to have our friends from across the food and drink industry join us to support and enhance the next edition of Food, Drink & Hospitality Week, by providing their knowledge and expertise to shape the success of the event. Our #IFE25 ambassadors include: 🍫Andy Richardson - Partner of European Food and Farming Partnerships and Member of UK Government Food and Drink Sector Council, Strategic Trade Advisory Group and Food & Drink Export Council 🍫Stefano Cuomo - CEO of Macknade 🍫James Bielby - Chief Executive of The Federation of Wholesale Distributors 🍫Freya O’Mara - Trading Manager of Pantry and Speciality Foods at Ocado Our #IFEM25 ambassadors include: 🌟Karen Green- Speaker, Author and Consultant of Buyerology Ltd 🌟Kerri Fidler- Head of Portfolio, Food for Later at Greencore 🌟Mex (Mecca) Ibrahim - Co-founder of Women in the Food Industry 🌟Richard Werran - Global Director, Consumer, Retail and Food at British Standards Institution (BSI) 🌟Ton Knipscheer - Independent Packaging Consultant, Executive Director of European Co-Packers Association Find out more about our wonderful ambassadors here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gida9Rcq

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Have you BOOked a stand for #IFE25? 🍬 Treat your business by exhibiting at the UK's largest and most successful event for food and drink product discovery. 🦇 No tricks here! You'll be able to meet 30,000 buyers actively on the hunt for your latest products and innovations. Don't ghost us, enquire today! 👻 https://lnkd.in/dmqfgxQx #HappyHalloween #IFE #FDHW #IFE25 #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #TrickOrTreat #SpookySeason Federico Dellafiore Isabelle McKeever Sam Bennetts Tessa Raphael-Bheeka Teddy Lanyon

Lidl GB triples its plant-based range as it experiences soaring demand and double-digit growth in the category over the past year. 🥦🌱 With a pledge to reach its ambitious climate goals offering enhanced costs at market leading prices, the new Vemondo Plant! own-label range features 28 new items. The newly expanded range is set to appear in selected stores from this month, ahead of completing a national roll out by January 2025. Read more and view the full range here 👉https://lnkd.in/dWfxuxDc #PlantBased #Lidl #WFIA #FDHW #IFE25 #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry #foodawards

Waitrose & Partners recently partnered with the nation’s biggest delivery network, Just Eat Takeaway.com, to expand its presence in the convenience sector and reach a broader range of customers after seeing a 140% increase in average weekly on-demand grocery sales. More than one million Brits now regularly get their groceries delivered by Just Eat - with the platform delivering 12 grocery orders to UK customers’ doors every minute last year alone.💨 Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dww-i_5s #Waitrose #JustEat #WFIA #FDHW #IFE25 #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent #foodanddrinkindustry #foodawards

🍝🌍 Happy World Pasta Day! 🌍🍝 Every year on 25th October, global experts and eaters spread knowledge, promote the eating of pasta and trying of new shapes, plus discuss the glories of the noodle, along with its cultural and culinary importance. There are so many pasta-bilities to get involved! 🍽️✨ If you've got some innovative carb-creations to showcase to our food and drink buyers, then you need to exhibit at #IFE25 or at our sister event, #HRC25 who have a new dedicated Pizza & Pasta event section! 🍝 Don’t be ravi-lonely - join the pasta party and enquire to exhibit today here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eg5FAS-U #WorldPastaDay #PastaLove #CarbGoals #FDHW25 #foodanddrink #foodandrinkevent