A guide to getting started in the food truck industry. Are you a foodie? Have you thought about opening a restaurant but found the startup costs ...
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16 Tips on Improving Package Experience
Package interaction is central to the consumer experience. Your package is the consumers first and last impression of your product. The consumer ...
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Consumer Sensory Infographic
Building quality brands & brand preference across geographies requires an understanding of consumer quality and what constitutes a positive ...
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How to Design a Thriving Plant Nursery at Home (Guest Blog)
Plants provide us with something beautiful to look at, delicious food, and a unique way to lower stress levels. Even if you don’t consider yourself to ...
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8 Step Guide to Researching Market Entry
Entering a new market is complex and requires an understanding of the variables that influence that market e.g. the economy, culture, consumers, ...
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Food Business Start-Up Training & Resources
To learn what's involved in starting a Food Business, visit our Food Start-Up page where you will find links to Free Online Training Courses and ...
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Food Industry Job Seekers Guide
Are you changing job, changing direction or looking for a job? We have links to lots of great free Resources to support your preparation e.g. ...
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35 Free Online Trainings for a Sustainable Food Supply Chain
As a food producer you play a critical role evolving the food industry to become a sustainable platform. To help you stay current, learn from ...
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Two Different Ways Crowdsourcing Can Inform Your Marketing Strategy (Guest Blog)
Coming up with a good marketing plan is difficult; many campaigns fail to deliver the expected results and negatively impact the companies profits. ...
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300+ Free Food Industry Trainings
Our ‘Best of the Web’ Food Industry Portal has links to 300+ free online trainings and lots of valuable resources for: Manufacturing & Supply ...
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22 Food Industry Training Videos and Featured Playlists
The web provides an invaluable training platform however it is time consuming to trawl through its vast content. To support your development. We have ...
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24 Free Food Industry Toolkits
The toolkits include guides, templates, infographics, checklists & questionnaires: They provide step by step guidance and checks on essential ...
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How to Reduce Unplanned Downtime (Guest Blog)
Two words that nobody in manufacturing wants to hear are unplanned downtime. For the financial team, unplanned downtime means substantial or even ...
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Organisation Structure Explained
Are you evolving your organisation structure to keep pace with strategy, to accommodate changes in the business, to deliver on objectives, to optimise ...
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A Guide to Performance Management for People Managers
Performance management is an annual cycle of aligning strategic goals to individual objectives and then managing employee performance to deliver those ...
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How to Give Feedback Tutorial
Giving effective feedback is a critical skill in the performance management process and an area that many people managers find challenging. When I ...
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How to Manage Poor Performance
Managing poor performance is both challenging and time consuming for people managers. Let's have a look at some steps you can take when poor ...
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Education In The Future: The Trends That Will Make A Difference (Guest Blog)
The education industry has been slow when it comes to adopting new technologies. But that changed quickly with the Covid-19 last year. One of the ...
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How to Evaluate Employee Performance
Performance evaluation is an annual process that evaluates calibrates and records an assessment of an employee’s performance. The assessment reviews ...
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Writing Employee Objectives
Objective setting is part of the Performance Management Process, an annual cycle of aligning strategic goals to individual objectives and then ...
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Job Description Tutorial
If you are a people manager or an employee who needs to write a job description, this short training video will take you through what’s involved. ...
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Career Assessment Guide
A Career Assessment Guide to stimulate your thinking, and help you to gain insights on where you are now and where you would like to go in your ...
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Establish Food Values for your Product Strategy (Training Video & Toolkit)
65 Issue Troubleshooting Questions for a Food Business
Do you have a set of pre-defined issue troubleshooting questions for your business? When you are faced with an issue, is not the time to put a ...
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How New Tech Is Changing The Food Industry (Guest Blog)
Our new website delivers lots of enhancements and new content for the food industry
Setting up your Urban Vegetable Garden (Guest Blog)
There has never been a better time to set up your own urban veggie garden. Even if you're new to the idea of gardening, with the right space, the ...
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Financial Well-Being
Financial well-being means having financial security and financial freedom of choice in the present and into the future. It describes a continuum ...
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Tips on Accurately Measuring Temperature in the Food Industry (Guest Blog)
Accurate temperature measurement is essential to complying with HACCP, protecting consumers from food borne illnesses and ensuring the integrity of ...
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Supplier Quality Infographic
To protect your brand from risk, ensure consistency of supply and effectively manage innovation, food companies of all sizes need a robust Supplier ...
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A Quick Guide to Supplier Quality Management (Training Series)
To protect your brand from risk, ensure consistency of supply and effectively manage innovation, food companies of all sizes need a robust Supplier ...
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How to audit & approve suppliers (Training)
As a food producer you need to have complete confidence in your raw materials and suppliers. Raw material issues impact your reputation and can be ...
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What’s included on a Supplier Specification (Training)
Your raw material specification details your exact supplier requirements and is an integral part of the vendor contract. How do you go about ...
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Supplier Quality Policy Explained (Training)
Do you have a comprehensive supplier quality policy for your organisation? A comprehensive supplier quality policy: outlines the requirements ...
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Finding Suppliers in the Food Industry (Training)
Identifying & assessing raw material suppliers is a challenge for any food business. Learn more about what’s involved in my free training ...
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Does your Supply Chain impact Product Quality?
Proper storage, handling & transportation help to maintain food quality by retaining flavour, colour, texture, nutrients & package ...
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6 Tips on Managing Innovation in the Food Industry
The food industry innovation process has seen huge change over the years. The industry has become very complex with influences like globalisation, ...
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Preparing A Food Safety Management System For An ISO Audit in Food Service (Guest Blog)
Food safety management is a critical task that any food-related business should undertake. HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) principles ...
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Package Opportunities Guide (& Training Video)
Have you analysed your package portfolio to determine what opportunities exist? Packaging is the consumers first and last impression of your product ...
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Product Opportunities Guide (& Training Video)
The opportunities for growth in the food industry are staggering with the worlds population expected to reach 8.6 billion by 2030. Is your company ...
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A Quick Guide to Analysing your Product Portfolio (Training Video)
Establish a regular review of your product portfolio as part of your business cycle. This is necessary to understand the performance of your complete ...
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New Product Design Brief Explained (Free Template)
A ‘New Product Design Brief’ is a comprehensive document that specifies all of your new product details. Download your free New Product Design Brief ...
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The 10 reasons why your food business needs a website
Covid 19 has prompted a huge number of businesses to move online. Whether you are developing your first website, adding ecommerce to your current site ...
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Manufacturing Products for Gut Health
The outbreak of Coronavirus has reinforced the importance of boosting the immune system. Scientists are advancing research on gut microbiome and the ...
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Finding your way around Training & Resources on bia-biz.com
Welcome to bia-biz.com, a comprehensive online directory of valuable free training and resources for anyone working in, looking to work in or ...
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45+ Free Online Management Trainings
I have worked in organisation, leadership, management and people development for 25 years and have been exposed to so many valuable and insightful ...
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25+ Free Online Personal Development Trainings
Whether you want to enhance performance in your current role, accelerate your career growth or improve your employability prospects our Personal ...
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25+ Free Online Quality, Science & Standards Trainings for a Food Business
Links to Quality, Science & Standards Training & Resources for a food Business including: 25+ Free Online Trainings to support design, ...
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10 Free Online Food Safety & Microbiology Trainings
Our Directory has links to valuable food safety & microbiology resources: 10 Free Online Food Safety & Microbiology Trainings to inform ...
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How Nutritious are your Products?
The choices you make about your ingredients and products impact people’s lives, people’s health and the planet. Have you looked at how you can ...
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National Agencies & Standards Web Directory
Our National Agencies & Standards Web Directory is a Consolidated Catalogue of National Agencies, Standards & Food Supports by country. Our ...
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50 Free Online Manufacturing & Supply Chain Trainings
Our Directory has links to numerous Training Courses, Training Videos & Resources for Manufacturing & Supply Chain Staff. 50+ Free Online ...
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70 Free Online Trainings for Product Developers
Our Directory has links to numerous Training Courses, Training Videos & Resources for Product Developers. 25+ Free Online Trainings and ...
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Innovation Process Infographic
Whether you are a start-up, or an established company, scaling your business, distributing locally or exporting, being aware of what’s involved in ...
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28 Point Checklist for your Brand Agency Meeting
Your package and label play a vital role in consumer engagement and building your branding. If you hire a brand agency to design your labels and ...
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10 templates for your innovation process
The food industry innovation process is complex, with influences like globalisation, advances in science, new technologies, demanding consumers, ...
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10 Package Design Tips for a Food Business
Your package is the first and last point of connection with your consumer and is a powerful influencer of choice. Have you looked at what makes a good ...
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How To Create New Food & Drink Products & Avoid Cannibalisation
Cannibalisation can occur across any industry, channel or product portfolio and is something that businesses and brands need to consider prior to ...
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Growing your career in food science
The food industry is complex and scientists need to stay current & continually develop their skills and expertise. Our ‘best of the web’ ...
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Talent Management Infographic
Effective talent management is key to the success of any food or beverage business. Talent Management is an integrated system that spans recruitment, ...
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5 Ways to Cut Food Transportation Costs (Guest Blog)
When you transport food, you need to make sure they are delivered on time without getting spoilt. Without proper planning, transportation costs might ...
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New Website Toolkit
Defining your business personality will help you with marketing your business and attracting the right clients. The steps in this toolkit will help ...
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The Importance of Life & Personal Financial Planning
If you are working in a business as an owner or employee and you have a specific skillset, the chances are you have invested the appropriate time in ...
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Factors to consider in your NPD strategy
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health—and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to ...
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Fibre as a Functional Ingredient (with Free Checklist)
Fibre is growing in importance as a food ingredient as many consumers are looking to reduce or eliminate carbohydrates and fats in their diet. This is ...
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Website and Social Media Tips for New Food Businesses
Business Name When you are setting up a new business, or rebranding an existing one, make sure that the domain name is available by going to the ...
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