Gerry Ludwig, Corporate Consulting Chef at Gordon Food Service in Grand Rapids, Michigan, industry speaker and trend tracker, and leading food writer and columnist for foodservice trend magazine, Flavor & The Menu, started the day sharing some of his insights into current food trends and the foodservice market in the USA. Martin Morales, chef, restaurateur and founder of the award-winning Andean restaurants spoke about Peruvian ‘Superfoods’ and leading the healthy eating trends.
Giles Smith, a Senior Client Service Manager for MCA Insight, a leading-edge research and strategy consultancy based in central London, gave insights into the UK’s Foodservice Market. In 2017. This was followed by various discussion panels and a chef demonstration by Adria Wu, Founder of Maple and Fitz.
Nigel Jenney, Chief Executive of the Fresh Produce Consortium
Running concurrently was a workshop on accessing the UK market –
now and after Brexit where experts from the UK discussed challenges and opportunities in a post Brexit UK.
The start of the London Produce Show would not be complete with the evening cocktail party and as always the glittering event took place in the Grosvenor House Hotel, in London"s Park Lane.
Today will be tradeshow day, with exhibitors and visitors from around the world. On Friday various tours have been organised to retailers, markets and growers.
Photos from the cocktail evening:
Jacques Lutien, Sebastian Bye and Martijn Bergmans
Tom Robins and Gerhard Leodolter - Wonderful Citrus
Pat Hart and Sherrie Eugene-Hart - Carib Asian Cookery
Vannessa and Alan Hutchins - Enzed Exotics
Jennifer Grant, Marion Grant, Aki Noda, Ashish Saperia, Emma Grant and Gemma Chamberlain
Gertrude Zeinstra, Karin Bemelmans, Tim Heddema and Martijn Bergmans
Paul Torres - ProEcuador, Carlos Abad - Ambassador of Ecuador, Juan Teran - ProEcuador
Teun Messemaker and Carlos Ojeda
Linda Bloomfield and Hannah Gorvin - London Produce Show
Mike Parr - Perishable Pundit, Jason Smith - Ferryfast, Laurance Jones - Jamaica High Commission
Will Jessop, Louisa Read, Rupert Maude and Mark Tweddle
Stephanie and Richard Priestly, David Ball
Mark Tweddle, Andeas Schindler, Doug Amez, Estera Amesz and Yvonne Tweddle
Ger van Burik - Holland Fresh Group and Anton Filppo - LBP
Nelli Hajdu - Fresfel, Lambert van Horen - Rabobank and Clayton Swart - SATI
Sian Thomas - FPC
Mark Huges - G's, Kaigl Thankranr and Anthony Gardiner - G's
Tom Ooserman - Cool Fresh, Mira Slott - London produce Show and Nic Jooste - Cool Fresh
Corriene Kinkel - Sensitech, Linda Bloomfield and Gill McShane - London Produce Show
Iain Forbes - The Gardin, Paul Summers and Liav Bacharach - ROP