Open Innovation Forum members

Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods is a highly diversified group, with a range of food and ingredients businesses. We are united in our purpose: to provide safe, nutritious and affordable food, and clothing that is great value for money.

Biffa

Biffa has been at the forefront of the UK’s waste industry for over a hundred years. We exist to change the way people think about waste, to help people see the opportunities that exist when we manage our waste in the right way, and to make that happen.

Cambridge Consultants

For 50 years, Cambridge Consultants has led the way in innovative product, technology and service development. We are the development partner of choice to many of the world’s leading blue chips, complementing their existing R&D capability by bringing new skills, experience from other industries and the ability to speed up the development process. We create new products, technologies and services that have a significant impact on our clients’ business.

Diageo

Diageo are a global leader in premium drinks, with a collection of brands across spirits and beer. With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, Diageo’s portfolio has remarkable breadth.

Domino

Founded in 1978, Domino Printing Sciences plc has established a global reputation for the continual development and manufacture of its total coding and printing technologies that meet the needs of manufacturers and sets new industry standards in quality and reliability.

EIT Food

Supported by the EU, we lead the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. We create connections right across the food system that stimulate new ideas and inventions to drive change.

Kepak

Kepak is a global food company serving international retailers and foodservice household names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend food concepts and ready-for-market convenience foods.

Kerry

Kerry Group is a world leader in food taste and nutrition serving the food and beverage industry, and a leading supplier of added value brands and branded foods to the Irish and UK markets.

Krones

Krones offers lines for the beverage industry and food producers: process technology, filling technology, packaging machines, all the way through to IT solutions.

Müller UK & Ireland 

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 32,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,300 British farmers.

Nomad Foods

Europe’s leading frozen food company and one of the largest in the world. Our portfolio of leading niche brands, anchored by Birds Eye, Findus and iglo, have been serving local European markets for generations and stand for food that is great tasting, high quality and convenient.

pladis Global

The world’s best loved biscuits and confectionery – pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie’s and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy.

Queen’s University Belfast’s Agri-Food Quest

Queen’s University Belfast’s Agri-Food Quest is a membership-based, industry-led Innovation Centre for the agri-food businesses in Northern Ireland. The Centre is focused on increasing the level of collaborative research activity to support the agri-food industry growth strategy.

Samworth Brothers

We are a fourth generation family company with 14 businesses producing high-quality food, employing over 11,000 people in well-invested, modern sites across England and in Dublin.

Suntory Beverage and Food Europe (SBFE)

At SBFE we combine knowledge, insight and expertise with an appetite for innovation to create some of the best-loved soft drink brands. Working with our Japanese parent company Suntory gives us access to some of the world’s best beverage insight, research, development, production and marketing.

Yili

Yili is the leading dairy company in Asia, number five globally and growing rapidly. Yili has the ambition to become the most-trusted healthy food provider across the world. Yili Innovation Center Europe, based in The Netherlands, is the innovation bridge to Yili in China.

TFTAK

TFTAK is privately owned research organisation with a mission to accelerate food and biotech innovation. We are ready to deliver results from idea, lab scale and pilot scale up to testing in the industry with on the productions scale.