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< Previous58 Food & Drink Internationalwww.fdiforum.netLUNCH!Annually attracting over 6,000 attendees,lunch! needs little introduction. Now in itsninth year, it’s frequently cited as a ‘mustattend’ event for discovering innovative newideas and concepts, with Helen Higgins,head of food, at EAT. calling it “thedestination show for our industry”.350 suppliers across three floorsInnovation isn’t limited to just one areaat lunch! – it’s down every aisle, across allthree floors of the BDC. For 2016, there’s acomprehensively eclectic mix of 350exhibitors showcasing food, drink,packaging, equipment and cateringLunch! 2016lunch! - the UK’s biggest and multi-award winning show for thefood-to-go trade, returns to the Business Design Centre in Londonon 21-22 Septembertechnology. Big names including SimpleSimon Foods, The Tofurky Company andItalia Formaggi are just some of the bignames confirmed for this year’s event. Tri-Star Packaging Suppliers, WEBERVerpackungen and The Printed Company,among many others, will be showcasingtheir latest packaging and labellingconcepts. The lunch! Innovation ChallengeThe Innovation Challenge Gallery alsooffers a good vantage point to see what’snew. Designed to promote the best food-to-go innovations over the last twelvemonths, it’s expecting to showcase recordentries this year. Companies hoping theirproducts will come away with a coveted‘Gold Award’ include ExcelsiorTechnologies, NutriPot and The LondonTea Company. Visitors are being encouraged to head tothe show’s Upper Feature Level to vote fortheir favourite innovation on opening day.They’ll decide the final shortlist ofexhibitors who’ll go on to live pitch theirproducts to this year’s judges, including topbuyers from Tossed, Costa Coffee, EnRoute International, Elior UK and EAT.Fresh market insightsAccording to the latest data from IGDanalysts, the UK’s food to go market is setto reach £16.1 billion by the end of the year,with sales up nearly 7% from 2015. With somany lucrative sales at stake, companiesthat can be quick to adapt to the latesttrends have much to gain. Of course, suchnumbers make it a hugely competitivemarketplace. So innovative sourcing andkeeping up with the latest market insights –at events like lunch! – is key. As in previous years, essential food-to-gomarket updates – from Horizons, The NPDGroup and MCA – feature prominently inthe seminar programme across both days ofthe show. Big name keynotesA raft of high-profile brands – includingStarbucks, Pret A Manger, Costa Coffeeand Welcome Break are also preparing to58-59_Layout 1 30/08/2016 12:11 Page 1Food & Drink International 59www.fdiforum.netLUNCH!share their expertise. This year, there’ll be 20 free businessseminars including exclusive keynotes, interviews, and paneldiscussions in two dedicated theatres. “lunch! is an exciting date in the diary to see new ideas frominnovative companies, it not only showcases the best but allows usto share knowledge across the industry. Don’t miss it!” saidCaroline Cromar, Group Director of Food at Pret a Manger,echoing the sentiments of many of lunch!’s repeat customers.For further informationand to register free inadvance, please visitwww.lunchshow.co.uk(and quote priority codeLUN65 where prompted).Mr Lee’sNoodlesIntroducing Mr Lee’sNoodles, a new brand of100% tasty, 0% nasty gourmetnoodles in a cup. Mr Lee’sboasts a diverse range of sixcup noodles using freeze-dried ingredients, and eachsoup has a nest of gluten-freerice noodles that are driven bythe personality andauthenticity of oriental flavours(Sugarwise and gluten free certified).Unlike their competitors, these are to be delivered through ‘NoodleKiosks’, digitally operated vending machines that create an engaging,customised experience. Scheduled for Q1 2017, these machines can bemonitored online to control stock levels, as well as unique interactivessuch as fun infomercial content. Also available are the ‘boosts andsupplements range’, which includes several condiments and proteinaddons.With a 45 second vend time, cashless payment system and 24/7availability, these kiosks are set to change the dynamics of the vendingindustry. Book your kiosk today!Tel: 01202242241 Web: www.mrleesnoodles.com Email: info@mrleesnoodles.com Stand: F308bNutriPotNutriPot, the debut range from Nutripot Nutrition, is set to fill agap in the market by offering consumers ‘healthy fast food’. Catering to the 64% of female consumers who try to eat healthilythe majority of the time and the 74% of consumers claiming theywould like to see a greater variety of healthier snacks for eating onthe go the range is set to unlock a healthy sales opportunity forfood service retailers.Each NutriPot provides half the body’s 28 daily vitamin andmineral needs which help to keep bones and teeth strong; skin, hairand nails healthy; aid cognitive function; and reduce tiredness andfatigue. The range is available in Aromatic Thai Noodles, Chicken &Mushroom Noodles, Moroccan Couscous, Quattro Formaggi Pasta,and Pasta Bolognese; selected for their popularity with consumers.High in protein for a fuller feeling, low in saturated fats andcontaining no added sugar, artificial colours or preservatives, theyare veggie friendly too, with no genetically modified soya, or MSG.The NutriPot range has a RRP of £2.49 and is available nowthrough selected retailers and online. Web: www.nutripot.com Email: enquiries@nutripot.info Stand: F12558-59_Layout 1 30/08/2016 12:11 Page 2RWMJoin a world-class line-up of speakersfrom multinational companies includingGoogle UK and Ireland, Jaguar LandRover, The John Lewis Partnership andNandos; senior policy advisers and a hostof other industry specialists at RWM2016. Experts will debate the most topicalissues affecting the resource and wastemanagement sector including Brexittransition, waste data, environmentalpolicies, product design and much more. Barry Dennis, Chair of RWM, said:“Content is focused on practical insightsand experiences from some of the biggestnames in retail, manufacturing,construction and design, the public sectorand from analysts and academics. Thesubstantial programme is packed full ofbest practice and free advice that delegateswill be able to take and apply as part oftheir own resource managementstrategies.”The Circular Economy Connect (CEC)Zone and Theatre, backed by industrypartners Suez and Viridor and sponsoredby Ricardo-AEA, explores how theprinciples of a circular economy can beapplied at an organisational or processlevel. This year’s programme, supportedby media partner, Guardian SustainableBusiness and chaired by environmentaljournalist, Maxine Perella, features currentexamples of circular practice.Joan Marc Simon, Director, Zero WasteEurope will talk about Brexit transitionand how Europe and the UK can continueto work effectively towards a zero wastefuture. Keynote addresses include IchinCheng, Director and Co-Founder of theSustainable Innovation Lab talking aboutsustainability and Horizon 2020 in his roleas an advisor to this largest EU Researchand Innovation programme. Internationalauthor and campaigner, Tristram Stuartwill give a speaker session addressing theFood Waste Challenge. Following the publication of the RWMAmbassadors Waste Data in the UKreport earlier this year, carried out andpart sponsored by Ricardo Energy &Environment, panellists will be discussinghow extracting value from your waste datacan unlock resource opportunities. Expertsdebating this include a UK GovernmentStatistician on waste management, widernatural resource use and agriculture fromDEFRA. In The Energy from Waste theatre,industry pioneers will provide a holisticview on the role energy from waste has inachieving environmental objectives set bypolicy makers. Themes covered includethe future of refuse-derived fuel;retrofitting of your energy from wasteplant to maximise efficiency; anaerobicdigestion and food waste. A seniorrepresentative from Transport for Londonwill be discussing working with bio-fuels,whilst an investors’ panel will discussfinancing routes available for energy fromwaste plants. With the growing need for localauthorities to implement a more creativewaste strategy on tighter budgets,contributors from leading councils,commercial organisations, advisers andmore, will share best practice in the LocalAuthority theatre on collaboration, how tocreate revenue streams and ways toincrease recycling. Topical issues that willbe debated include resident engagement,collection schemes, waste regulations,litter strategy and food waste reduction.Visitors will also have access toinformative workshops, keynote speeches,seminars and surgery sessions at theEnergy, Water and Renewables co-locatedshows providing leading insight, trendsand solutions to resource efficiency allunder one roof.For more information, visitwww.rwmexhibition.com, oremail info@rwmexhibition.com,or call + 44(0) 203 033 2049.RWM 2016Taking place at the NEC in Birmingham, 13th-15th September, RWM 2016, organised by i2i Events Group,in partnership with the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, has hundreds of free-to-attendspeaker sessions designed to inform and inspire60 Food & Drink Internationalwww.fdiforum.net60_Layout 1 30/08/2016 11:28 Page 1Food & Drink International 61www.fdiforum.netWAREHOUSINGDistribution plays a key role in theefficiency of any company, pushing itsproducts into the hands of customersand making them available to the widermarket. A poor or inefficientdistribution system can have devastatingconsequences for the day to dayrunning of a company, along with theirability to complete the terms of acustomer’s contract. With the balancebetween minimising costs andmaximising throughput, isolating andidentifying factors that cause delays orproblems becomes increasinglyimportant.The human element remains both awarehouse’s greatest strength and itsgreatest weakness. Adaptable, flexibleand skilled workers can help shore up62 ÁPHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM/WAVEBREAKMEDIAThe warehouseproblemWhile full automation might be the future key to warehouse efficiency,for now we still need to consider how to get the most out of theworkforce we already have.61-63_Layout 1 30/08/2016 12:12 Page 162 Food & Drink Internationalwww.fdiforum.netWAREHOUSINGDelta Refrigeration and PastorfrigorGroup join forces in dealItalian company Pastorfrigor, one of Europe’s leading refrigeration suppliers,has acquired a majority share in Delta Refrigeration, bringing a host of excitingnew changes to the company – including a new name, Pastorfrigor GB Limited.The move will see two new Directors join Simon Robinson, Darren Brown andJulie Robinson on the Board of the company: Davide Montina from PastorfrigorSPA and Roman Visnovsky of Pastorkalt A.S, one of the Group ownedcompanies.Simon Robinson will remain in his post as Managing Director, and DarrenBrown as Operations Director in the fresh new company which moved into new,state-of-the-art offices, showroom and warehousing in Essex in August. The new company home will have a showroom, state of the art office spaceand three dedicated warehouses.Simon Robinson, Pastorfrigor GB Ltd Managing Director, said: “As Pastorfrigor GB, we will sell both Pastorfrigor and Pastorkalt cabinets via existingUK partners and directly to end-users.”For more information, visit www.pastorfrigorgb.com.any gaps or changes in daily operations,but mistakes caused by human error andpotential downtime can drag downefficiency as well. Some argue towards fullautomation as a solution to this, as a wayto improve productivity. Workers willalways be ruled by the physical limitationsof the human body, while machines do notsuffer the same fatigue. An automatedsystem can continue running for 24 hoursa day, without the need for changingteams, shifts and breaks. For food anddrink retailers who operate online storesand delivery, this enables companies tohave more flexible cut-off times fordeliveries, improving customer relationsand perhaps even making them a moreattractive choice for consumers.What holds companies back fromadopting such a scheme is often thefinancial implications. A fully automatedwarehouse system requires not onlyspecialist machinery and software, but alsoa lot of planning and preparation. Forexisting warehouses it might meanalteration, or removal of all existingsystems, which would lead to a lot ofwastage. While for new builds, there isalready such high investment being utilisedPHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM / DMITRY KALINOVSKYfor distribution centres that addinganother facet to the mix in what is alreadya tough economic climate, simply isn’tdesirable. Return on investment tends tobe a little slower with fully automatedsystems, despite high labour costs. Formany full automation is simply notfeasible, and the question quickly becomeshow to improve the efficiency of what isalready in place.Materials handling is one such area inwhich efficiency can be traditionallyimproved. It is no secret that handlingmaterials in a cut-and-thrust environmentcan cause serious injury, or worse. Safetyis paramount in any business setting, andinjury cases can be incredibly costly. Speed and efficiency are often mistakenfor the same thing, and while it’sforgivable for a worker to attempt to fulfilan order by using a little extra haste, therecan be risks involved, not only to personalsafety, but also the operations of thewarehouse. True efficiency is animprovement that comes about regardlessof the individual effort involved. It is apassive component in many cases, onethat will work as effectively for oneemployee as it will for another. Assumingthe process is followed correctly, of61-63_Layout 1 30/08/2016 12:12 Page 2locating and accessing products within thewarehouse when they need to be shippedout. While most products of a particularbrand or batch will likely be stored witheach other, the individual size of thepackaging can vary greatly. Pallet-wrapping machines can help maximise onthis, by safely ensuring a wider range ofboxes can be stored together on a singlepallet. This also provides added safety tothe products if they need to be stored atheight, as there is no risk of individualpackages being knocked loose. Even whenit comes to these machines though, thereis a staggering amount of options availableon the market, with varying prices andoptions. Software, specifically Supply ChainManagement Software, can also help inthis regard, especially with accuratesummation of stock incoming andoutgoing, but also where it is stored andwhat employees will be available at thetime that it is required to be shifted. Food & Drink International 63www.fdiforum.netWAREHOUSINGcourse.Forklifts, for instance, are a staple ofthe materials handling industry, withalmost every warehouse or distributioncentre in the country operating a few atleast. What can cause confusion howeveris the wide array of forklifts available onthe market, and what roles they mightbest be suitable towards. Industrial reachforklifts are best suited to taller rackingsystems, very common within the foodand drink industry due to the sheerquantity of stock that is kept in awarehouse, often necessitating thatoperators stack their products tall as wellas wide. If your warehouse has unusuallythin aisles, possibly because of even higherlevels of stock, then a 3-wheel forklift canoffer more manoeuvrability, allowing it tooperate in these thinner aisles. What a company needs can depend ona hundred different factors, from thewidth of the aisles, the height of thestacking, weight of palletised goods – oreven how far back on a rack they arestacked. It is therefore necessary not tosimply go for what is the cheapest option,but instead to ask what will generate thegreatest efficiency for the facility as awhole. One obstacle to efficiency can often beAs always the focus is on efficiency,with a view to reducing costs throughminimising on mistakes a more traditionalsystem might make. Removing the humanelement where possible can help to notonly ensure that all data is correct andaccurate, but that there are nounnecessary paper trails to try and workthrough. Automation is king, both on theproduction line – and when it comes tosoftware packages.Any delays at the distribution part ofthe supply chain, especially if caused bynot having the correct SCM in place canbe catastrophic, as it is distributioncentres which commonly deal with directlywith the final client – introducing thatage-old risk of failing to satisfy and thuslosing a key contract. With the food and drink retail marketdominated by a few very powerfulretailers, manufacturers can ill-afford tosuffer any lost confidence with thesemajor clients. UK’s greenest cold storage depot tofeature ISD Solutions single envelope A new super energy-efficient cold storage warehouse extension for Turners, one of the UK’sleading temperature controlled storage and distribution companies, is to feature a state-of-the-artinsulated singleenvelope designed andinstalled by compositepanel specialist ISDSolutions.Forming theweathered external skinof the building, this willbe the first UK chilleddistribution warehouseto incorporateKingspan’s latest IPN-QuadCore technology,a new insulated panelcore which delivers athermal improvementof up to 20% overstandard PIR insulatedpanels. Located at Turners’existing site nearBoston in Lincolnshire,the 5,500m2 extension will provide capacity for 5,500 pallets, plus packaging space and loadingdocks, all chilled to 1°C. It is led by project designers FJB Systems, who have formulated a rangeof features to meet Turners’ environmental goals. FJB Systems has calculated that the new panels alone would reduce heat loss through thefabric of the external envelope by as much as 50kW. 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Here’s asneak peak of a story that took place recently. As consumer confidence falls and experts predict negative consumer effects following the Brexitvote, a glimmer of positivity is coming from an unexpected source. SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, is predicting a boost in consumer passion for localbeers from Britain’s craft breweries as past experience of economic down-turn shows consumersopt to ‘trade-up on treats’.Mike Benner, Managing Director of SIBA said: “There is plenty of doom and gloom followingBrexit and while it may be the case that many consumers will look for better deals on householdspending generally, for beer there are some important lessons to be had from recent history.“In the 2008-09 recession we saw many consumers applying ‘quality over quantity’, choosingpremium local ales over mainstream beers. We also saw a strong ‘community-comfort’ effectwhereby in times of uncertainty people tend to associate themselves more with their own localcommunities. “In many ways it was these consumer trends which drove the continuing growth of local craftbeer. We expect that trend to continue in the coming months of uncertainty. These effects could bepositive for British craft-brewed beer in both the on and off-trade.”Stay in touch with Food & Drink InternationalFor more up to the minute information from the food and drink industry, visit Food & Drink International online at www.fdiforum.net. 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