Throughout the year various fund raising events have been held....

Food & Drink Expo 2006

Redbridge exhibited at the Food & Drink Expo for the second time this March. The exhibition incorporates the foodservice, manufacturing, retail, wholesale and export sectors, and is held alongside four other major food and drink industry events including the Convenience Retailing Show.

On the stand we were promoting our foodservice operation, our 5 A Day convenience range, our fresh fruit snacking range, and a new concept snacking range of dried fruit, nuts and seeds. The response was extremely encouraging, with visitors to the stand interested in how Redbridge could help to benefit their company, whether they were from a sandwich shop, a chain of convenience outlets or a major department store.

The new concept snacking range of dried fruit, nuts and seeds was the surprise star of the show, with interest well exceeding out expectations. Group Marketing Manager, Sally Cleary Corbett had been tasked with finding a new line of healthy products to add to our current fresh fruit snacking range and decided to take the concept to the show to monitor the reaction.

We had approximately 200 leads from the show which have been allocated to the Business Development Managers to follow up. We have already launched the 5 A Day convenience range in our Wigan and Southampton depots, who are currently supplying product to Londis, T&M Retail and independent stores.