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Opportunity North East Overview Peter Cook Director Food Drink and Agriculture Innovation -The OGTC Innovation: Biotherapeutics Centre Internationalisation International Market Development Anchor the Supply Chain Oil & Gas Integrated

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Opportunity North East Overview

Peter Cook Director Food Drink and Agriculture

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Oil & Gas Life Sciences Food, Drink & Agriculture Tourism

Innovation -The OGTC Internationalisation Anchor the Supply Chain Decommissioning Global Oil & Gas Learning & Training Centre Innovation - Agri-Food & Nutrition Hub Market Development Integrated Supply Chain Growth Business Skills Development Innovation: Biotherapeutics Centre International Market Development Integrated Supply Chain Growth Business Skills Development VisitAberdeenshire £795k funding

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Food Drink and Agriculture

Food Drink and Agriculture

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  • 1. Why is Food, Drink and

Agriculture a priority?

Food Drink and Agriculture

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The North East punches above its weight - and has growth potential

  • 22,000 direct jobs
  • Big share Scottish food and drink sector (20%)
  • Big share Scottish agriculture (25%)
  • Big share Scottish seafood landings (50%)
  • Good base for growth: range of produce, lots of new food/drink businesses,

some tremendous brands, a well recognised and connected sector

  • Huge opportunities: internationalized market; provenance; nutrition; luxury
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But challenges…

  • Low growth: few brands, 65% only sell in the area, only a

third sell online, many small

  • Productivity
  • Much primary processing with low value add
  • Weak low margin chains and retailer centralisation
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  • 2. What are our priorities?

Food Drink and Agriculture

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Food Drink and Agriculture

Integrated Supply Chain Innovation AFNIC

Market Development

Growth Business Skills Development

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Growth Business

  • A growth “escalator”
  • Business Growth Programme 2016/17
  • Food and Drink Growth Network
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In Innovation

  • Agri-Food and Nutrition Innovation Centre

(AFNIC)

  • Build R & D links: Interface, including Groups
  • Innovation Awards
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In Integrated Supply Chains

  • A major potential source of competitive

advantage for the NE

  • Already heavily involved: dairy, pigs, eggs,

rapeseed

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Market Development

  • Market Development Manager – joint SF&D

post, and programme.

  • Food and Drink Tourism programme
  • Market Development infrastructure: NE Food

and Drink Excellence Awards, Food & Drink Events, Market Awareness events.

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Skills

  • Reviewing skills gaps for innovation and growth,

and our role

  • High level food technology gap – turn
  • pportunities into real products
  • Supply of young workers – DYW, Internship

schemes

  • Confidence
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  • 3. How do we work?

Match funding. Leverage. Add value. Accelerate. Fund people, expertise, knowledge. Not cap grants, but looking at finance. Alliances: SF&D, Councils, Interface, VisitAberdeenshire, SE. Joint posts, secondments, joint programmes, co-funding. Building small team of trusted facilitators.

Food Drink and Agriculture

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WHAT IS IS YOUR VIE IEW?

  • What is holding back the growth
  • f food and drink (incl farming/

fishing) businesses in the North East?

  • What are the opportunities and

solutions?