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Buyers to decide Innovation Challenge finalists at lunch! 2013: Over 50 new food-to-go product innovations to compete for prestigious show awards

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The award-winning lunch! trade show is putting visitors firmly in the driving seat of its Innovation Challenge Awards this year, when it returns to the Business Design Centre in London, on 26-27 September.  For the first time ever, all products entered into the Innovation Challenge Showcase – including food, drink, packaging, equipment and technology – will have to win over the show’s visiting retailers and buyers first, before making it through to the second round and onto the prestigious shortlist. Voting will commence at the Innovation Challenge Showcase when the show opens next week at 10am on Thursday 26 September.  […]

Former Pret MD heads up Working lunch! line-up

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Retailer & buying masterclasses confirmed for lunch! 2013.  Retail consultant Andrew Walker – the former managing director of sandwich chain Pret A Manger, will share his observations and expertise on the highly competitive lunchtime market during a headline Keynote at this year’s lunch! trade show. Walker’s session – ‘Maximising your lunchtime opportunity’, will take place on the opening day of the sixth annual lunch! exhibition, which returns to the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, over 26-27 September.  Whilst this will be his first appearance in the Working lunch! Theatre (sponsored by Magrini), Walker is no stranger to the award-winning […]

lunch! shortlisted for Best Trade Show award for fourth year running

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lunch! – Europe’s premier trade event for the food-to-go market – has once again been shortlisted for a pair of prestigious industry awards by the UK’s Association of Event Organisers (AEO). The recently announced nominations see lunch! up for its fourth consecutive Best Trade Show Exhibition (under 2,000sqm) Award – an accolade that the event first won at the AEO’s Excellence Awards in 2010 (followed by a second triumph in 2011).  The lunch! team will also be defending its Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Award, which it won last year. Diversified Communications UK, the organiser of lunch!, had much […]