It’s been a busy few months and only going to get busier I sense!

A new website is being created and will feature much more detail than currently but below is a brief overview for now!!

Firstly, we’ve welcomed four new folks on-board. We’re really pleased to be working with Rob Iles. Rob has twenty years experience in both branded and private label food businesses and has held various sales and marketing roles with the likes of Whitbread, Dairy Crest and Greencore. For the last eight years he a has been Sales and Marketing Director of Buckingham Foods and then Group Innovations and Marketing Director of private equity backed Adelie Foods. Adelie supply sandwiches (lots of ‘em!), salads and snack foods to customers such as Sainsburys, Boots, Costa, Compass Group and a number of airlines.

He joins us to work alongside Mark Glynne-Jones and Dave Lawrence to develop The Food Funnel, an exciting new venture. Essentially, Food  Funnel is a virtual and real-time community of emergent artisan food, drink and lifestyle companies alongside an eclectic mix of foodie partisans in the guise of journalists, chefs, restaurateurs and others. It will act as a conduit for building and maintaining a relationship network primarily in the form of an online platform and occasional gatherings in the real world including seminars, safaris, dinners, events, mentoring sessions etc

The matrix provides a range of business building services for artisan members on a three-tiered basis, essentially REVIEW, RESTYLE, RELAUNCH. We will facilitate interaction with Food Funnel and larger food and drink companies keen to keep abreast of trends, opportunities and threats but in a totally new and we believe, unique way.

We are very excited to be working with a growing number of businesses already including a fabulous artisan baker who is Radio 4 Food Programme’s Producer of The Year to a fourth generation ice cream business based in the Cotswolds.

The other three newcomers are Luke Freeman as Senior Web Developer, Weston Ironside who joins as Senior Designer from Whittards of Chelsea and finally Jenny Lawrence who has joined from a Covent Garden based branding agency with experience of working with brands such as Coke and Diageo.