Essex food entrepreneur to share his experience at the UK’s first food founders’ festival
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 24 October 2016 -- A two-day conference for emerging and growing food and drink brands, the Bread & Butter festival aims to bring food and drink founders and innovators, investors and leaders in industry and media together. The ground-breaking programme will feature more than 90 inspirational speaker s including the founders of many UK food success stories such as HelloFresh, Graze, Ugly Drinks and Nosh Detox.
Alongside the panel discussions and inspirational keynotes, visitors can take part in hands-on workshops and mentoring sessions, including those in the Startup Studios zone, where business coach and mentor Stuart Allan will be running his one hour workshop entitles ‘Scaling Up: Making Your Food Business Profitable’.
Over 25 years, Stuart built his own UK-based food manufacturing business from scratch, turning it in to a multi-million-pound operation by the time of his exit in 2013. Now one of the UK’s leading business consultants, dedicating his time to supporting other businesses to make effective, and often significant, changes to evolve their business, conquer new markets, and improve profitability.
In his workshop, Stuart will take delegates through proven steps to create and maintain profitability in a food business, including how to scale up production, understanding manufacturing costs and margin expectations and exploring routes to market.
Stuart says: “It’s a privilege to be attending Bread & Butter and to be working with young businesses in the industry. We have so much potential in UK food manufacturing and I’m looking forward to sharing my experience, and some of the mistakes I made along the way! I believe that’s what makes me a successful business coach; I’ve been there, worked through those tough times and grown a business from the ground up. I know how hard it is, but I also have some great formulas for success, especially in conquering those all-important new markets.”
Stuart Allan will be speaking in the Startup Studios zone at Bread & Butter on Sunday, 13 November 2016 at the Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London. The event runs on 12 and 13 November 2016, find out more at http://www.breadandbutterfest.com/
Stuart Allan, Carstairs Management, http://www.stuart-allan.co.uk, +44 1473326907, [email protected]
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