Links : Food Industry

Bidwells

Agri-food specialists Bidwells can measure the carbon footprint of supply chains, identifying practical and profitable ways for businesses to reduce their carbon impacts and help communicate environmental messages to consumers.

Bordeaux Quay

Sustainable food chains with a particular interest in local systems, restaurants and communicating environmental messages.

Bulmers Cider

Bulmers work in close partnership with farmers to ensure a long term viable and sustainable cider fruit growing industry, contributing around £4m annually to the local farming economy. 

Cold Logic

Cold Logic is a company dedicated to finding the best solutions to refrigerated transport, alternative fuels and new product development. Services include refrigeration consultancy, marketing support, vehicle specification, vehicle sourcing, system implementation and interim management.

DEFRA

A huge number of organisations, from government and international agencies to NGOs and universities focus in one way or another on food policy and to provide a comprehensive list would be impossible. It is also difficult to separate out food policy from other subject areas. The following list represents a tiny fraction of the institutions dealing with this issue and other pages on this website will also list organisations who will have useful policy-related information. However, as a first port of call, it might be worth looking at the websites of the following organisations:

Defra - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For details of Defra's work on sustainable consumption and production see here.

Fife Diet

The Fife Diet is a mass-member food network of people accessing sustainable local food.

Horticultural Development Council

The HDC is a levy funded body that serves the commercial horticultural industry in England, Scotland and Wales. The money it collects is used to fund high quality, essential applied research, development and technology transfer. All projects are approved by expert panels that represent each sector of the industry, encompassing over 300 different crops.

IFPRI

International Food Policy Research Institute (focuses heavily on food security).

IGD: the food and grocery experts

IGD is a team of experts, dedicated to the development of the food and grocery industry and committed to the needs of its consumers. IGD delivers training and education programmes that set the industry standard.

KRAV

KRAV has been a key player in the organic market in Sweden since 1985. KRAV develops organic standards.

Marks and Spencer

One of the UK's leading retailers. Known for their green credentials as a result of a five-year eco plan, Plan A, which will see the company become carbon neutral and send no waste to landfill by 2012.

Provenance: for more sustainable food supply chains

Provenance provides supply chain management, marketing, research and consultancy services to food businesses across the supply chain.

Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury's was the first UK food retailer to publish an environment report in 1996. It is committed to:

• making products healthier
• sourcing British products when in season, offering widest range of higher welfare products of any UK retailer and becoming the largest UK retailer of Fairtrade products
• reducing energy, packaging, food waste and waste

The British Potato Council

This is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board, and is committed to supporting the British potato industry. 

The Co-operative

Active in tackling the environmental impacts of food production and retail.

The Fresh Produce Consortium

This is the trade association for the fresh produce sector in the UK. Membership covers every area of the industry spectrum including wholesalers, importers, packers, food service, retailers and floral.

Unilever

One of the world's largest consumer goods companies, dedicated to improving the way it manages its environmental impacts and moving towards the longer-term goal of developing a sustainable business.

Vital Veg

Vital Veg sows, grows, picks and packs organic fruit and veg on an Aberdeenshire farm and delivers straight to customers’ doors. Soil Association certified 100% organic.