Professional Affiliates
Our professional affiliates offer professional services to the food and drink
sector. Through these partnerships we hope that our members will benefit from
their knowledge and insight.
FDF Professional Services Directory
Banking & Finance
Education
Energy & Utilities
Facilities Management
Food Safety, Science & Research
Insurance & Risk Management
IT, Technology & Engineering
Labelling & Packaging
Legal
Market research
Professional Services
Waste, Recycling & Environmental
Weather
Banking & Finance
HSBC
HSBC aims to be where the growth is, helping businesses to thrive and economies
to prosper
and enabling people to realise their ambitions.
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Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds recognise that businesses of all sizes are the key
to
driving the UK economy to recovery and sustainability. We support millions of
companies, large and
small, and are committed to delivering the support they need to achieve their
ambitions.
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Lombard
At Lombard, we have proudly supported UK food and
drink manufacturers and
agriculture
businesses for over 150 years. We are committed to helping them realise the
benefits that asset
finance could bring to their business.
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Lombard
Natwest
Time and
trends wait for no one. That's why we're here to help you stay ahead
of
the curve. Because the faster
your business moves with the times, the better you'll be able to meet your
customers' needs.
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Santander
Santander strives to understand your unique
needs and to make
banking straightforward, so you can focus on growth.
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Education
Queen Margaret University
At Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, our vision is to be a university of
ideas and
influence.We have widely recognised expertise in health & rehabilitation;
sustainable business
and creativity & culture.
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Energy & Utilities
Centrica Business Solutions
In a changing energy landscape, Centrica Business Solutions are helping our
customers unlock
the power of power to realise their ambitions.
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Centrica Business Solutions
Clarke Energy
Clarke Energy is a leading supplier of power generation solutions for the food
and drink
manufacturing sector.
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Clarke Energy
ENGIE
ENGIE is the ideal partner to help you on the journey to a zero-carbon future.
Our targeted
services and solutions address every area of carbon reduction and offer a
proven
way to help you
achieve guaranteed carbon savings.
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Ylem Energy
Experts in fully financed, flexible, behind-the-meter generation, control and
storage systems that
reduces costs and boost grid resilience.
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Ylem Energy
Facilities Management
ENGIE
ENGIE is the ideal partner to help you on the journey to a zero-carbon future.
Our targeted
services and solutions address every area of carbon reduction and offer a
proven
way to help you
achieve guaranteed carbon savings.
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Food Safety, Science & Research
Campden BRI
Campden BRI provides technical,
legislative and scientific support and research to the food and drinks industry
worldwide.
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EIT Food
EIT Food is Europe's leading agrifood innovation
initiative, with the aim to create a sustainable and future-proof food sector.
Made up of a consortium of key industry players across Europe, we are one of
eight Innovation
Communities established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology
(EIT).
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Food
Fera Science Ltd
Fera
Science Ltd is a national and international centre of excellence for
interdisciplinary investigation and problem solving across food and feed
quality, plant and bee health,
crop protection, sustainable agriculture and chemical safety in the
environment.
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about Fera Science Ltd
Leatherhead Food Research
We are the scientific and regulatory
affairs consultancy of choice for the world's leading food and beverage brands.
We help clients
innovate, access new markets and realise global opportunities by offering a
combination of
regulatory, consumer science and food safety expertise spanning over 150
markets
worldwide.
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about Leatherhead Food Research
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Insurance & Risk Management
Aon
Aon plc is a leading global provider of risk management, insurance and
reinsurance brokerage,
and human resources solutions and outsourcing services.
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Lycetts
Insurance Brokers
Lycetts is a Chartered Insurance broker with Charitable aims. Boasting a long
history of providing
exceptional levels of service and competitive Insurance, we are an open market
broker with additional
financial services and risk management division.
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Insurance Brokers
Marsh is a global leader in insurance broking and innovative risk management
solutions. We help
clients quantify and manage risk – and help them unlock new opportunities for
growth.
We provide industry-focused consulting, brokerage, and claims advocacy
services, and leverage
data, technology, and analytics to help reduce our clients' total cost of risk.
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NFU Mutual
The food and drink sector is booming. Yet from concept
through to consumption, you face challenges everyday. NFU Mutual understand and
appreciate the
issues you deal with such as - production efficiency, security of supply,
distribution, perishability and
rising costs.
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NFU Mutual
Square Mile Broking Limited
Square
Mile Broking Limited's level of professionalism and knowledge enables tailoring
of the insurance
offering to the specific requirements of what is a diverse industry sector
which
faces ever evolving
challenges.
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Square Mile Broking Limited
Willis Towers Watson
Willis
Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions
company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
We
deliver solutions that
manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of
capital to protect and
strengthen institutions and individuals.
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IT, Technology & Engineering
ABB Limited
ABB is a pioneering technology leader working closely with the entire food
and
beverage supply chain. ABB AbilityTM brings together the company's digital
products and services to
provide uncompromising safety, hygiene and traceability while achieving greater
energy efficiency,
improved productivity and competitiveness.
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Motion Division
Ideagen
Ideagen provides software and expertise to help the world's leading brands to
improve
efficiency, prevent undesirable events and ensure compliance by managing
quality, health, safety and
environmental compliance.
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Manufacturing Technology Centre
The
MTC develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in
an agile, low risk
environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
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Omron Electronics
Omron Europe Industrial
Automation is part of the Omron Corporation, a
global leader in the field of industrial automation and components and has more
than 36,000
employees in 36 countries.
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Pentadel Project Management
Pentadel
Project Management designs and delivers modern industrial facilities for global
and UK customers
across the food and beverage sector.
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Royal HaskoningDHV
Royal HaskoningDHV provide end to end
(digital) engineering services connecting the built physical environment with
digital i4.0 products and
services helping clients solve 1) Operational issues: bottlenecks, layout,
design, process
optimisation, asset management and data, greenfield v brownfield, energy and
water resilience
issues and 2) Capex decisions, environmental, design, layout, throughput, total
cost of ownership 3)
Achieving business environmental sustainability goals and targets in line with
regulatory
requirements
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HaskoningDHV
Siemens plc Industry Division
Siemens has a proud history of working with the Food industry companies. We
follow the
changing requirements in the industry very closely and help ensure
sustainability, flexibility, cost
reduction, and the safety and consistent quality of the products.
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SMC Pneumatics (UK) Ltd
SMC are world leaders in
pneumatic technology and experts in automation. With 51 subsidiaries at key
locations around the
world SMC products can be purchased in 82 countries. With a constant focus on
product
development SMC's product portfolio is vast with numerous cutting edge.
SMC
Pneumatics (UK) Ltd
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Labelling & Packaging
Ashbury
Ashbury
brings confidence to your product information through expert regulatory and
compliance advice.
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Ashbury
Museum of Brands
The Museum of Brands in
West London's Notting
Hill is the world's only
brand heritage venue.
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Legal
CMS
Food & Beverage Law Experts.
CMS helps leading Food & Beverage manufacturers navigate the industry's
highly complex legal
and regulatory environment, from food safety through to packaging and
labelling.
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Dentons UK & Middle East LLP
Dentons
is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to
clients
around the globe.
Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client
Service 30 Award
winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its
innovations in client
service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral
Network. Dentons'
polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance
client interests in
the communities in which we live and work.
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DLA Piper LLP
DLA
Piper's Consumer Goods, Food and Retail Sector team is recognised for advising
many of the world's leading organisations in
the consumer goods, food and beverage and retail sectors.
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Irwin Mitchell LLP
Irwin Mitchell is a leading full service UK Top
20 law firm that seeks out creative solutions for a wide range of clients, from
national and
international organisations and institutions through to entrepreneurs
/start-ups, SMEs and high-net-
worth/ultra-high-net-worth private individuals with a clear commitment to look
after you, your
business, your wealth and your health.
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Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP 
Shepherd and Wedderburn's highly rated Food and Drink practice have unrivalled
sector know-
how, which, along with our custom of bringing together specialist knowledge and
expertise from
across the firm, has gained us a reputation for excellence.
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Squire Patton Boggs 
Squire Patton Boggs is a global legal practice, comprising over 1,600 lawyers
across 46 offices in
21 countries. The client base of our practice spans every type of business,
both
private and public,
worldwide. We advise a diverse mix of clients, from FTSE 100 and Fortune 100
corporations to
emerging companies and from individuals to local and national governments. We
are one of the few
firms with the international presence to deal with global operators in the food
and drink industry.
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Walker Morris LLP
Walker Morris is a full-service business law firm with a focus on acting for
food and drink
businesses of all shapes and sizes and across a broad array of legal
specialisms.
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Market research
Nielsen
Nielsen is a global
information and insights company with leading market positions in marketing and
consumer
information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence,
mobile
measurement, trade
shows and related properties.
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Professional Services
Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce
Aberdeen &
Grampian Chamber of Commerce is North-east Scotland's leading business
membership
organisation.
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Grant Thornton UK LLP
Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of one of the
world's leading organisations of independent audit, tax and advisory firms.
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Thornton UK LLP
KPMG
KPMG in the UK is a leading provider
of professional services, including audit, tax and advisory specialisms -
delivering integrated
approaches to our clients' issues.
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Levercliff Associates
Levercliff is The Food & Drink
Business Consultancy. As a team of specialist food and drink experts, we
collectively share our
knowledge, insights and considerable experience to help clients build their
brand and transform their
business.
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Ramboll
Experts in decarbonisation, sustainability, efficiency, climate resilience,
business management and
compliance.
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Newton
Newton is a team of
the brightest and most curious engineers, scientists,
mathematicians and change specialists with the fundamental belief that every
organisation can be
better. Founded in 2001, the company cracks some of the toughest challenges
within the grocery
sector to find millions of pounds in improvements.
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RSM UK
RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax and consulting
services to middle market leaders, globally. With around 3500 staff in the UK
and access to more
than 43,000 people in over 120 countries across the RSM network, we can meet
our
clients’
needs wherever in the world they operate.
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about RSM UK
Salitix LTD
A specialist forensic
claim defence &
sales audit company, working for food and drink suppliers to the big retailers,
helping them to defend
retrospective promotional funding claims and conduct complimentary sales audits
of historic trading
activity.
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Waste, Recycling & Environmental
SLR
Consulting
SLR is a global leader in environmental and advisory solutions. We provide
strategic support and
guidance, to help clients quantify environmental impacts to reduce the impact
and business risk whilst
also enabling business growth.
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Consulting
Company Shop Group
Company Shop Group is the leading redistributor of surplus food and household
products in the
UK, enabling major manufacturers, retailers and brands to unlock the full
potential from surplus stock,
which may have otherwise gone to waste.
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Weather
Met Office
The Met Office works at the forefront of weather and
climate science to deliver protection, prosperity and wellbeing. Our commercial
retail weather
services have been developed through close consultation with the industry, to
ensure that they are
relevant and address key industry challenges. OInsurance ur services offer
significant
benefits that you don't get
with free weather data.
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