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A Dragons Den style session with five x 2-minute pitches from spirits solution providers showcasing products and services that could be the missing ingredient in your upcoming strategies

Introducing IMMUSE®, an award-winning and innovative postbiotic for immune health. This well-researched and effective ingredient will empower beverage manufacturers to elevate their functional drinks that resonates with health-conscious consumers. By incorporating IMMUSE®, you not only boost your product’s immune-supporting benefits but also align with the latest trends in wellness and innovation. Learn how IMMUSE® can be seamlessly integrated into your beverage formulations, providing a competitive edge and meeting the growing demand for functional, health-promoting drinks.

• What do we mean by the Bioeconomy?

Exploring the background, drivers and opportunities.

• Why it’s time to embrace bio-driven advancements

We’ll share insights from a recent industry survey on why this is happening now.

• What does this mean for beverages?

As adoption of biotechnology accelerates across multiple sectors, what opportunities does that open up for the beverage sector? From strengthening supply chain security and introducing bio-enhanced ingredients, to unlocking new revenue streams from waste.

• How to transform beverages with Biotech

We’ll explore how the fusion of biology engineering and technology will drive innovation for beverages and share examples of how some beverage companies are already harnessing the power of biotech to gain commercial advantage.

• Why we chose this waste
• What we knew and what we didn’t know
• Analysing pomace content and defining routes to industrialise
• Successes so far and future plans

• The consumer need for fun in F&B
• Adding fun with colour
• Enhancing the consumer/product connection
• Get inspired with colours from natural sources

In this presentation, Red Bull’s Lotte Tregear will consider how category blur in non & low, and emerging functional sectors, challenges how retailers and suppliers look at categories. We will also consider how new approaches could lead to better outcomes for shoppers.

• How has consumer spending on non-alc. beverages been affected?
• Brand experiences: The effect of rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis on drinks industry
• Logistics challenges in the current economic climate
• How have on-trade and off-trade sales been performing?
• Knock on effects from Covid and lessons learnt

• Consumer behaviour that’s driving a shift towards healthy and functional alternatives
• Immersion into the art and science of non-alcoholic fermentation
• The health benefits of non-alcoholic fermentation and how it can drive successful innovation