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Food & Beverage Clusters
What’s a cluster?
Concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions
Increases the productivity, drives innovation, stimulates new businesses
Food & Beverage
Food processing, warehousing and distribution, retailing and food services
Generates growth in related industries that service the cluster, including packaging, design, production of food industry equipment, biotechnology & specialized storage and transportation
Toronto’s Clusters
Aerospace Biomedical &
Biotechnology Business Services Design Fashion Apparel
Film & TelevisionFinancial ServicesFood & BeverageInformation and Communication Technology (ICT)Tourism
Diversity is KEY
Toronto’s Food Incubator
Toronto Food Business Incubator (TFBI) provides information and programs to help those who want to start a food business
Applicants must develop and present a business plan, must show entrepreneurship, tenacity and the aptitude for developing organization, communication and people skills
Facility is fully licensed industrial kitchen Available to small food
processing businesses
Guelph – Food Central
GFTC FARE OAC AFMNet
GFTC
Guelph Food Technology Centre Canada’s only not-for-profit, non-subsidized food
technology centre Provides creative, confidential technical
solutions, training, consulting & auditing to the Canadian agri-food industry in R&D, product development, packaging, shelf-life, food safety, quality & productivity improvement
FARE
Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Department at U of Guelph Poultry building, a dairy building, a
nutrition building
OAC
Ontario Agricultural College Global leader in innovative life sciences
education & research for environment, agriculture, food, & rural communities
Research programs focus on food quality & safety, development of value-added products & innovative technologies for manufacture
AFMNet
The Advanced Food & Materials Network Canada’s front line of research &
development in the area of advanced foods & bio-materials
The Food Bowl
Manukau, Auckland, NZ Employs over 5,460 in southern sector of
Auckland, over 73,500 in New Zealand, growth rate of over 5% per year
More than half of export earnings for New Zealand generated from food & beverage sector
Largest manufacturing sector by total output
Particular focus on production, packaging and distribution for local and export markets
Leadership in design of manufacture, processing and packaging systems
R & D is central to Auckland's offer with advances in food production and new product development
Offers specialized college
Last words…
Let’s go eat!