"I think coming to The UK Food and Drink Shows for us is really a worthwhile investment. It’s the perfect opportunity for us to meet with a whole host of our customers in one go over the three days. This show is great for seeing customers all over the country and we saw some potential great customers. There's a lot of multi-site operators that have visited."

~Luke and Owen Buckmaster, Founders, Doughboys Pizza

"Food & Drink Expo definitely accelerates visibility. I've met so many people these three days that I never would have met before. I’ve met people from farm shops, delis, people from hotels, people who have a friend of a friend who has a business. It opens you up to more opportunity that you wouldn’t have had before."

~ Lily Andrews, Founder & Director, Mary Mary

"It's really good because I can talk to people on the phone and tell people how good our ingredients are but when they're here and they're looking at it in formulation, real life tasting is really useful. I'd love to return. It's been a lot more beneficial than other shows that we've been to. I'll be an advocate for coming back."

~ Genna Freeman-Dennis, Applications Specialist, Healy Group

"We decided to come here this year because it's a really good melting pot of hospitality and retail all in one space, which for us that is the perfect customer profile that we are looking to try and target. We saw lots of other brands saying how they had an amazing conversion rate. We have also felt that ourselves."

~Georgina Atkinson-Chu, SMB Sales Manager, PayPal

"It's been a fantastic investment. We came last year to visit, but we knew we were going to exhibit this year. We wanted to mature a bit more as a brand and already in the first two or three days, it's paid back in dividends."

~ Navraj Dhesi, Founder, Nekta Drinks

"The UK Food & Drink Shows is a great testbed for us to understand if we're on the right track with some of our key NPD we've got coming down the line. It's always nice to have that engagement and the conversations to what we think is going to work for us in the future."

~ Wayne Thompson, Head of UK Sales, Lakeland Dairies

"I've been in the foodservice industry for over 40 years. I’ve been attending national trade shows for all that time, both here, in Germany and Paris along with Chicago and this is the best show I have ever attended. We are going to grow our business thanks to this show, there's no question about that."

~Charles Barber, Business Development Director UK & Ireland, Sweet Street Desserts

"This is our second year exhibiting at The UK Food and Drink Shows. We decided to come back because it was successful last year. We've had some very successful leads this year. Where do you get to see so many people in in such a short period of time? We could never speak to this many people if we were out on the road doing the normal day job."

~ Martin Dawson, Regional Sales Manager, SMEG UK