As a food entrepreneur you’re now at the point that its time to get serious about your food business and scale it up. Producing it yourself isn’t an option so you are considering using a company to make it instead. Co-packers or co-manufacturers or 3rd party manufacturers specialize in manufacturing for other people under their brand. Internet searches and trade…
Support for your business to make sure the sky’s the limit… Understanding your customers, having a great product or being first to market are all vital – but alone these are not enough. As a business founder you are unlikely to be an expert in everything. Having the right support for your business from the start is fundamental and improves…
This article explores the value of peer groups and the real benefits to business owners. What do we mean by peers? Relying on the dictionary definition, ‘a person of the same age, status or ability of another specified person’. Its people you interact with on a regular basis that know you quite well and feel a connection with. They may…
Starting a new business can be daunting – there’s loads to do, funds may be limited and you need to be an ‘expert’ in everything. However don’t despair there is lots of help at hand -its just quite difficult to find it sometimes. As a relatively new business myself I have navigated my way through various websites, events and conversations…
Today I set off to Hull University with a sense of excitement and slight nervousness ready to give a guest lecture at the Business School. My reflection of the experience – I loved every minute of it! So why am I telling you this and why might you be interested? I had agreed to do this slot because I knew…