Invest NI’s Food & Drink Virtual Meet the Buyer event
In order to reconnect with key retail, foodservice and wholesale buyers in ROI and GB as well as the local food and drink supplier network during Covid-19, Invest NI’s Food and Drink Business Development team recently hosted a virtual ‘meet the buyer’ event.
The virtual event was a resounding success creating a relaxed informal environment enabling visual re-engagement with a large plethora of key buyers across retail and food service including Aldi, Cotswold Fayre, Fallon and Byrne, Harrods, Lidl, Odaios Foods, Retail in Motion, Sainsburys, Selfridges and Tesco reminding them that NI Food and Drink is open for business.
The focal point of the event was an inspirational live cookery demo by local chef, Paula McIntrye, from her home kitchen on the north coast using approximately 14 award winning local products. As Paula cooked, she was joined by the enterprising producers behind the products who introduced the stories behind the innovative products.
In advance of the virtual event, samples of all of the food and drink products featured in the live demo were couriered to over 40 buyers and key influencers including leading GB and ROI based food writers and media.
You can view Invest NI’s virtual Food and Drink ‘Meet the Buyer event be clicking on the link below: