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09/01/2020
Joycelyn Neve, founder and Managing Director of Seafood Pub Company, formed the business in 2010, combining her family heritage in the Lancashire fishing industry with a passion for the highest quality food and relaxed service.
09/01/2020
Camilla was the youngest finalist in the history of the BBC Apprentice series, narrowly missing out in the final. Whilst Lord Sugar didn’t choose her, the CEO of Holland & Barrett was suitably impressed with her vegan nut milk M+LKPLUS and she went ahead to launch the dairy alternative into 645 of their stores where both flavours continue to sell out.
08/01/2020
Interview with Stephanie Slater Founder of School Food Matters
School Food Matters’ mission is to ensure that every child enjoys fresh sustainable food at school and understands where their food comes from. Their founder and MD Stephanie Slater works with parents, children and schools to help to improve school meals and support food education through cooking, growing and visits to farms. We caught up with Stephanie to discover how she set up the initiative and explore what motivates and inspires her work and how we can help the organisation with their efforts.
04/01/2020
Lisa Smith is the founder of Ginger Bakers, an award-winning bakery whose philosophy is that good food needs high quality simple ingredients and attention to detail, so they always strive to use the freshest and locally sourced ingredients wherever possible, and always free range eggs.
04/01/2020
Join Stosie Madi Chef Patron and co-owner of award winning rural inn, Parkers Arms for a special MasterClass where you will discover her journey to success in “How to become a Successful Food Entrepreneur” at our Lancashire Female Food Entrepreneurs event on January 30th 2020 at Lancaster University with Marketing Lancashire.
03/01/2020
Join Karen Walker co-founder of the award-winning sauce brand, Nowt Poncy at our Inspiring Women in Food Panel at our Lancashire Female Food Entrepreneurs event on January 30th 2020 at Lancaster University with Marketing Lancashire. She’ll share her experience in starting-up a food business, allergen control, compliance, branding, experience of the Environmental Health Department and Trading Standards, moving into supermarkets, building a commercial kitchen, and lack of sleep!
21/12/2019
Join our Lancashire Female Food Entrepreneurs Masterclasses and Panel
We are delighted to announce that Women in the Food Industry’s first Northern event will be hosted by Lancaster University. Join us on 30th January 2020 at Lancaster University for a Lancashire pop up food market, two inspiring masterclasses and an insightful and thought provoking panel discussion.
18/12/2019
What Happened at our The Politics of Food Debate at City Hall
A few days after the General Election, we held an event at City Hall, one of London’s most iconic & political buildings, on the politics of food. A diverse panel of women covered a big range of topics including food poverty, slave-free food, food waste, gender politics in professional kitchens, Brexit, sustainability and more. Here’s a recap of some of the areas discussed.
07/12/2019
Listen to Nicola Matthews of Tony’s Chocolonely Podcast with Women In the Food Industry
Our co-founder, Mecca Ibrahim, chatted to Nicola Matthews UK and Ireland Marketing Manager of Tony’s Chocolonely who are working toward 100% slave-free chocolate
Our friend James Haywood from OpenKitchen made part of our interview into a short podcast where you can hear Nicola discuss Tony’s story and mission to make the chocolate industry a fairer place, who she finds inspiring in the food and business world and how she markets the product with no above the line advertising.
02/12/2019
Spotlight on Women in CODE Hospitality’s 30 Under 30 List Class of 2019 / 2020
Who are the movers and shakers in the hospitality world that haven’t turned 30 yet? Once again CODE Hospitality – the restaurant industry journal have highlighted the rising stars of the UK restaurant scene, both inside the kitchen and beyond it. This year’s list of 30 industry professionals includes many inspiring women.
01/12/2019
Interview with Vivien Wong Co-Founder of Little Moons
Since launching as a small, family-run business in 2011 Little Moons has grown to the point when one mochi is eaten every three seconds. Our co-founder Mecca Ibrahim caught up with Vivien Wong one half of the dynamic brother sister duo behind the company. Discover how these bite-size artisan gelato, handmade in the UK moved from a home business, to stocking restaurants and are now sold in retailers including Selfridge’s, Whole Foods, Tesco and Ocado.
21/11/2019
Join Women in The Food Industry’s The Politics of Food Debate at City Hall
As the December elections are currently front of mind, we’re holding an event at City Hall on the evening of 16th December on the politics of food. Our panel of women will cover subjects such as food poverty, slave-free food, food waste, gender politics in professional kitchens, sustainability and more.