Six lunch! exhibitors struck gold today, winning coveted Innovation Challenge Awards. Designed to promote and celebrate new ideas in the market place, a record 110 new products took part in the competition this year (many of these innovations were enjoying their official trade launch at the show).
lunch! visitors were busy casting their votes today at the Innovation Challenge Gallery. Their top-picks have now been shortlisted for tomorrow’s Innovation Challenge Live ‘pitching’ session, taking place at 11.15am in Keynote Theatre 1, with the results to be announced at 4.15pm. Exhibitors hoping their products will come away with a coveted ‘Gold Award’ will need to impress this year’s judges first – including Paul Ettinger (Caffè Nero), Rosie Bambaji (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets), Martyn Clover (Tortilla), Shereen Ritchie (LEON), Shane Kavanagh (Crussh), James Kidman (Crussh), Simon Woplin (Ambassador Theatre Group), Martin Hambleton (En Route International), Louise Direito (Krispy Kreme UK), Kristian […]
Here’s some video highlights from a fantastic first day at lunch! 2019.
Thousands of food-to-go operators, food retailers, café and coffee shop owners and buyers, leisure and travel caterers, will be heading to London for lunch! this week. Doors open on Thursday at ExCeL (10am, 19 September) with 7,000 attendees expected over two days.
lunch!’s Innovation Challenge Gallery is a great starting point for visiting buyers to see what’s new for 2019.
lunch! ramps up innovation levels again, with a record 110 new products ‘going for gold’ in its Innovation Challenge Awards. Many of these innovations will be enjoying their official trade launch at the show, which returns to ExCeL London next week, on 19-20 September. Products competing for a much-coveted gold Innovation Challenge Award will be showcased in the Innovation Challenge Gallery, which offers visiting buyers – working across food-to-go, retail, hospitality, catering and wholesale – an industry-leading preview of what’s new and launching on the market. lunch! visitors get to choose the award finalists by voting for their favourites on […]
Barny Clevely, MD of FCB Coffee, will be appearing in an exclusive interview at lunch! 2019. Arrive early to grab a front row seat, as he talks to Anya Marco about the rise of FCB and their unique place in the food-to-go and coffee shop sector (1.30pm, Friday 20 September).
Jim Wealands is group food development director at CH&CO Group. He’ll be taking part in the show’s first ever Contract Catering panel (with representatives from Sodexo, Eurest, Aramark and Elior) talking about how innovation in concept and product keeps them at the top of their game.
For Geoffrey Hunter, head of food at Pure, “lunch is an essential date in the diary”. He’s looking forward to being part of this year’s Head of Food Panel, which will take a behind the scenes look at the challenges (and rewards) of developing and launching a new product or menu.
