Free Newsletter  for NJF and The Food Network July 09 

  
It’s the middle of summer, if you make or stock Christmas products, they should be signed off now and you should be looking ahead to 2010... is your business still buoyant despite the downturn?

The Food Network brings together food industry experts,  businesses, organisations and professionals from ingredient producers, food manufacturers, designers, photographers, packaging experts, distributors, landlords, legal and accountancy specialists, lobbyists, writers, retailers, caterers, chefs,  restaurant, pub and cafe owners

MEMBER ADVANTAGES:

• Email forum: free flow of peer expertise, literally hundreds of people in the know and on hand to help answer any question you can ask.
• Central  & west London drop-in monthly networking. 
• Monthly roundup of issues and opportunities from across the industry.
•  Complimentary MP3 seminars and tele-seminars.
• PDF's on a variety of key  subjects.
• Supply and support from both funded and private sources.
  

At just £120 for annual membership can you afford not to add the Food Network to your mix?

New Website

We are having a few teething problems getting the new website right – but we hope it will be ready to launch in the next few weeks and that you will agree it’s been worth the wait!
 

Win, Win.

Here are a few of the opportunities members were offered this month.....

• Opportunity to attend a workshop on raising finance in the current climate
• Media mastery teleclass- run by a journalist this telephone workshop taught you how to create a story the press will be interested in, contact the press ,create seasonal campaigns ,the do's and don'ts of speaking to a journalist and how to have an instant data base of over 2000 national press contacts 
• 2 interns with food specialisms looking for unpaid work over the summer were both snapped up pretty quickly
• Position for a buyer advertised for an established business in London, opportunity for someone to promote a beer at county shows
• 2 opportunities to bid for catering contracts 
• Opportunity to exhibit at Anuga this October for just £400

.......And all the info that just went out via the forum too!

What’s in the Pipeline?

In September we are hosting an event with supply London looking at opportunities for caterers and manufacturers in public sector procurement – with speakers from Hammersmith and Fulham Borough and Sodexo sharing their top tips on winning contracts ..... members will get first chance to attend

On October 14th we are holding an event for food manufacturers with a packaging designer, legal label expert, distributor, marketer and SEO expert - the event will take place in Stratford

In February 2010 we are planning a full day conference on Food Sustainabilty – what does it mean for large and small businesses and what plans should we be making now to safeguard our food supply for the next 20 years...

Not Just Food is a consultancy that works with food businesses helping them to get where they want to faster than they could on their own 

.. this month we are delighted to report that Amber Bakery , a client we have been working with for about 18 months, has won a Barking & Dagenham Business Award for  Growth Business , a great achievement for Nadia  Gencas and her hard working team particularly when other businesses are struggling to maintain sales.  Nadia  said : ‘ Jane Milton from “Not Just Food”  was a great source of inspiration and energy for myself and has given me very valuable marketing advice and support.’