Go Global: Exporting your food or drink brand @ Somerset House

This event will ensure your food or drink business is ready to take its first steps in exporting.

Join small business community Enterprise Nation and the exciting panel of speakers to:

• master the general principles of international trade
• grasp the specific requirements of countries that you want to export to
• discover the fundamentals of branding for an international audience
• hear from the experiences of other successful businesses

Speakers:

 
Amanda Hamilton, Drink Me Chai
Amanda Hamilton’s passion for tea has taken her on an incredible journey from novice entrepreneur to successful business woman. Amanda discovered a niche in the hot drinks market for instant chai latte and over the last 11 years has built an established brand (number one in the UK) and launched several additional new innovative drinks concepts in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Gary Baylis, Export Expert
Gary has been in the international logistics industry for over 47 years, working at director and senior management level, in both operational and commercial roles, dealing with export and import shipments of all types by land, sea and air.

Simon Lacey, Grocery Accelerator
Simon co-founded Grocery Accelerator – the UK’s first food and drink accelerator, who have invested, coached and help fast-track 11 new and exciting innovative businesses in their first year.  Simon is also founder of Idea To Shelf Ltd, a consultancy specialising in helping small food and drinks businesses with great ideas to grow and prosper. Simon has over 18 years worth of experience in senior sales & marketing positions, from large multinationals such as Colgate and Carlsberg through to fast growing premium brands such as Kettle Chips, Plum Baby & Lily’s Kitchen, Simon has an outstanding track record of bringing brands to market and helping to step-change performance at the sharp end.

Kastytis Kemezys, Cinnamon Bridge
Kastytis is passionate about two things: food and helping businesses to thrive. He co-founded MyDrink Beverages and created DrinkPreneur Live beverage awards. He realised that what businesses really needed to intense, targeted help to connect with investors, grow their sales and improve their business. To provide this he created Cinnamon Bridge in 2014 .

Hosted by Dan Martin
Dan is head of content at Enterprise Nation. He has 14 years of experience as a journalist writing about small businesses and the issues that affect them. Among the people he has interviewed are Sir Richard Branson, Peter Jones, the Duke of York and Vince Cable.

Go Global

This event is a part of our larger Go Global campaign that aims to help start-ups and small businesses discover, explore and enter new markets outside of the UK. There will be five trade missions this year. Click here to find out more and book your place on the food and drink mission to Dublin on 10- 11 March.

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