FOOD READY TO RETAIL LAUNCH PAD

If you want to import food products into the UK, get guidance for safety standards, regulatory compliance, novel ingredients, labelling, packaging, retail, distribution, and options for bulk imports. If you want to export or access UK/EU markets through our retail shop, we can guide you through the process.

SACOMA RETAIL LAUNCH PAD has a programme for exceptional food ideas and artisans. We provide tailored assistance to help you succeed:

• Test-sale your product in our retail shops
• Drive product success through strategic marketing
• Take original homemade recipes through industrial trials, reformulations, lab tests, and compliance
• Reformulation, labelling, and packaging services to meet market requirements
• Turn your food product idea into a revenue-producing business
• Set up a QMS including custom HACCP plan
• Help get your products retail-ready for our retail or novel product live
• Create product specifications
• Scale to larger batch quantities, increase production volume, and extend shelf life
• Configure pallet specifications
• Import, export, wholesale, distribute, or showcase your products in our UK retail shops

For Food Artisans with food ideas, Indigenous knowledge and skills in food processing and preservation. Our vision is to create a network of food supply chain innovators whose food ideas will change the world. With continuous R&D, we help food artisans and manufacturers to get ready and launch unique, innovative, natural, and sustainable food products in the UK retail and distribution network.

We connect ideas, people, and communities to drive food innovation that changes lives. We inspire artisans to research, develop, create and reformulate packaged sustainable foods and drinks.

• If you have a great food product or idea for the UK and global markets.
• If you have a great business story to tell and want to inspire others with your food idea, knowledge, and skill.
• If you want to keep your food idea fresh and update it with new ingredients or formulations.
• If you want to discover insights into how top food innovators and big brands develop, create, design, and package their new food ideas.

The collaborations in the Sacoma Launch Pad initiative focus on new food trends for health and well-being, sustainable food and consumer goods production, distribution, packaging, and consumption, leading to positive impact on the climate, health, and environment.

Join more than 300 experts who share their keys to boosting food & beverage competitiveness. If you are ready to contribute your ideas, insights, tech trends, and disruptive solutions on food products, unique food processing skills & technology, packaging, safety, science, decarbonisation, and sustainability, then join our global community.

Innovation is complex. The journey from idea to market is not straightforward and requires a diverse range of know-how, investment, market knowledge, and research. We are passionate about working with innovative businesses to overcome these challenges and shape opportunities and supply chain solutions.

• If you have an Indigenous food recipe idea with a proven concept for food processing and preservation method.
• If you have a great food idea that could possibly grow.

• Access to researchers, consultants, and experts — microbiology, food nutrition, food technology for nutrient preservation, food safety standards and regulations, packaging and labelling, systems for traceability, and food authenticity.
• Access to mentors and partners with extensive contacts in international and UK innovation landscapes, particularly in agri-tech and food innovation.
• Packaging design and regulation support.
• Supply chain management expertise.
• Technical expertise in manufacturing including disruptive manufacturing and product co-creation business deals.
• Price points and demographic targeting.
• Consumer research and market feasibility studies.
• Distribution logistics, storage, warehousing, and movement of goods.
• Stock inventory management, order fulfilment, and delivery processes.
• Retail, exports and imports guidance.
• Personalized product section within our retail shop.
• Developing new business opportunities and building relationships with project partners.

SACOMA FOOD ARTISANS’ APPLICATION FORM

Please note that a completed application is not a guarantee of a place.

Food Artisan’s Details

Are you registered with the Local Authority?
Please let us know if you require any information in acquiring the above.

Email: info@sacoma-healthfoods.com
WhatsApp: +44 (0) 7764 961 489

Submit your details via email or WhatsApp to apply.