Start-Up Competition: The Pitch Deck
Pitch Your Best New Products In Front of a Live Audience
Watch emerging food and drink businesses pitch their products, ingredients and technologies live to an expert panel of judges in a Dragons' Den-style competition at Food Manufacture 360.
The Pitch Deck is a live on-stage pitching competition designed to spotlight innovative start-ups and challenger brands across the food and drink sector, with a prize pot worth £9,500 up for grabs.
Selected finalists will present their product or business to a panel of industry judges before a live audience of food safety, innovation and regulatory professionals. Following the pitches, the judging panel will select an overall winner.
Entries are completely free. Shortlisted companies attend the event free of charge.
How It Works
Stage 1
Submit your application online
Stage 2
Shortlist of finalists selected
Stage 3
Finalists pitch live and a winner is chosen
Why Enter The Pitch Deck?
By entering The Pitch Deck, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Present your business to senior food manufacturing professionals
- Gain valuable feedback from an expert judging panel
- Build awareness for your brand and innovation
- Network with potential customers, partners and investors
- Compete for an exclusive winner's prize package
Eligibility
- Product/innovation being entered needs to be pre-launch or have launched within the last two years
- Business founded within the last 10 years
- UK-based or actively trading in the UK
- Fewer than 250 employees
- Independent company
- Developing an innovative food, drink or ingredient product
The Grand Prize - Worth £9,500
- Free Full membership of Campden BRI for 1 year worth which includes £480 worth of credit to be used on any Campden products or services, including publications (best practice guidelines) or training courses + free answer to short enquiries + free access to the Member Interest Groups (15 of them) + free newsfeeds including Foodlaw Alert. Full details here
- Up to 2 free guideline documents from the Campden BRI publications store
- Up to £1000 worth of credit to be used on Campden BRI Training Courses - more here
- Up to 8 hours of consultancy with a senior expert worth including one of our lead experts on startups, John McAughtrie. This could cover NPD, Food Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Labelling etc.
- 6 hours of mentoring with Matthew McAuliffe, Brand & Futures Innovation Director at The Compleat Food Group. The sessions will cover sell-ins, scaling and innovation focused problem solving.
Think You Have The Next Big Innovation?
Entries are now open for The Pitch Deck at Food Manufacture 360. Complete your entry today by filling in the form below!