Taking Welsh Food and Drink Global

About this episode

The episode discusses the opportunities in the Welsh food and drink export market with industry experts.

The food and drink export market for Welsh produce is worth around £850 million a year. With many businesses already seeing benefits from taking part in trade visits and events facilitated by Welsh Government, as well as other support, host Gemma Casey is joined by Rhys Llywelyn who manages the Welsh Government Food and Drink Export Cluster, Jack Davies of Hilltop, Anita Richards of Rachel’s Organic and Stuart McNally of Calon Wen Organic to discuss the scale of the opportunity.

People in this episode

Host: Gemma Casey

Guests: Rhys Llywelyn, Jack Davies, Anita Richards, Stuart McNally

Topics covered

• food export
• Welsh produce
• trade visits
• business support
• global market

Keywords

• Welsh food
• drink export
• trade events
• business growth
• export market

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Welsh Government, Hilltop, Rachel’s Organic, Calon Wen Organic

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