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Food industry careers campaign heads to Conservative Party conference

3 October 2011

Two apprentices from the food and drink manufacturing industry will be speaking about their training and ambitions for their future careers at a Conservative Party Conference fringe event next week (3 October).

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has organised the breakfast fringe meeting to champion careers in the food and drink manufacturing sector and profile its careers campaign 'Taste Success - A Future in Food' which aims to show potential entrants that the UK food and drink manufacturing sector is a 'career of first choice'. Attendees will hear from apprentices Marc O'Connor and John Ravenscroft at Kraft Foods UK Ltd who will share their experiences of working in the sector first hand.

This will be followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Mark Spencer MP, Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Food and Drink Manufacturing Group. John Stevenson MP, Chair of Food and Drink Manufacturing APPG, Jim Moseley, FDF President and Justine Fosh, Director at Improve Ltd will share their views and take questions from an audience of Conservative MPs, stakeholders and industry representative.

FDF is also co-sponsoring a fringe event with Dods UK Manufacturing Dialogue which will focus on the image of UK manufacturing and what can be done to raise the profile of the sector.

Terry Jones, FDF's Director of Communications, said: “Through these events we hope to deliver our key messages about the importance of the food and drink industry and the need for it to be positioned at the heart of the new Government's economic thinking.

“The food and drink manufacturing sector is certainly one to be proud of and the 'Taste Success - A Future in Food' campaign will champion the sector and highlight to stakeholders, including business, government and the media, the positive contribution that the food and drink industry makes to society.”

Food and drink manufacturers are taking collective action to provide career opportunities for young people in the industry. FDF's Graduate Ambition will see FDF working with Universities to develop a new degree course to equip graduates with the skills that the food and drink industry requires. Food and Drink manufacturers are also making a commitment to doubling the numbers of apprenticeship places in England and Scotland by the end of 2012.




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