We help you open doors, access markets and build your strengths.
Through our market development and market intelligence support, we help you with the essentials for growth:
There’s a huge appetite at home and abroad for Scottish food and drink, but how do you pinpoint and access the opportunities profitably? Our market development team can help you find the answers.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, many consumers started buying more local produce. Which means that now – more than ever – could be a great time for your business to tap into regional markets.
The UK offers fantastic opportunities for Scottish food and drink businesses, with currency, language and logistics all working in your favour.
Exporting is a proven way to grow your business and manage risk, and no business is too small or too new to consider it.
Our range of resources and sector strategies can help you build your technical skills in commercial sales and marketing and sharpen your approach to recruitment & retention, growth and more.
The Academy is a unique, market-focused, and commercially orientated training programme that helps Scottish food and drink producers
A joint, industry and Scottish Government programme for Scotland’s farming, fishing, food and drink sector.
The Knowledge Bank is here to power business growth by giving you access to unrivalled insight and analysis to help you unlock commercial success.
Growing our local food businesses and networks benefits all of us. So there’s plenty of support available.
We turn information into actionable insights for daily decision-making and strategic planning, helping you to navigate the ever-changing food and drink landscape
In this section, you'll find a wealth of supporting information on a range of subject matters. To get started, jump into any of our toolkits linked below.
From professional services to supply chain, from market development to market intelligence, our benefits will save you money.
Find out more about our publications - from the Ambition 2030 strategy to Food Tourism Scotland action plan.
Our calendar contains extensive listings of each month's harvest: fruit, vegetables, meat, game, wild food, herbs, fish and shellfish.
Read the latest sector strategies for the Scottish food and drink industry.
Our services and offers for members can put you in pole position to develop your markets, customers, products and competitive edge. They’ll save you money too.
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Scotland Food & Drink is the kind of umbrella organisation that is essential to help growth across the food and drink sector.
Read how business of difference sizes and sectors have broken into new markets at home and abroad
Case studies
“I think that Scotland Food & Drink is the kind of umbrella organisation that is essential to help growth across the food and drink sector and it is very well led by James.”
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Mackays contacted Scotland Food & Drink to help with a total category overview, specific to all brands and major retailers in the UK specific to jams and marmalade.
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“Scotland Food & Drink’s support has been hugely beneficial in the early stages of our business, the Showcasing Scotland event at Gleneagles has been the highlight of our membership to date."
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