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There are lots of factors that contribute to food innovation and yearly trends. In order to gain a full understanding, and apply those locally or within a niche market, you need to understand the macro factors that are influencing food innovation. A Focus On Long Term Health Traceability: Sourcing & Production Awareness Social Responsibility: Waging War On Food Waste & Unnecessary Packaging Globalisation & Travel: A Search For New & Under-Explored Flavours Digital Innovation: Food At Our Fingertips Convenience: Easy But Not Speedy Home Cooking Solutions Read more …. https://www.foodstarsuk.com/commercial-kitchens-for-rent/food-innovation-six-secrets/ The post 6 Food Trends Driving Food Innovation appeared first on [...]

How customer experience drives digital transformation Digital transformation offers organizations an opportunity to understand the modern-day buyer, engage with them and deliver on their expectations of a multi-channel customer experience. To help you succeed, here are three ways to help your business to get started with digital transformation: An agile, flexible IT environmentOrganizations recognize the need for implementing agile systems and 86% of businesses believe that cloud technology is critical to digital transformation.The cloud enables companies to be fast, dynamic and flexible  – giving your organization the ability to test new projects that are cost-effective and low-risk – allowing you to [...]

Pursuing an active CSR programme can have multiple benefits for small businesses. Assuming the policy is sustainable and ties in with the business’s core competencies, employees who apply their skills to help the local community can learn in return. Many companies use volunteering with a charity as a team-building exercise that then benefits the workplace. Having an environmental policy can frequently be simple to achieve for the SME. It may be investing in low-energy light bulbs, turning off computers and lights at the end of the day, replacing plastic cups with china mugs, or installing intelligent heating thermostats. A company can [...]

Mediation is a tool in and of itself, allowing for peaceful resolution of tensions and conflicts where this is within a relationship, community or society.  The Europe 2020 goals for a more inclusive Europe with higher social integration and community cohesion are more important than ever in light of increasing societal tension, linked to the economic crisis, immigration & refugee crisis and increasing multi-ethnicity communities.  What is mediation? “Mediation is a completely voluntary and confidential form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). It is when an impartial person or mediator – trained in dealing with difficult discussions between two opposing sides – [...]

Banbridge Enterprise welcomed all the LIME projects partners to Banbridge, Northern Ireland for the kick-off meeting of the project. It was a highly productive meeting around a topic of significant importance, not just in the UK but across Europe.  Ciaran from Banbridge Enterprise was the Chair for the meeting ensuring everyone had their input and the meeting progressed as per the Agenda. The meeting facilitated the discussion of the partners roles and responsibilities within the project and their aims and views of Lean Innovation. The tangible results of the project will include: IO1 Formative Self-Assessment Tool. This online, interactive diagnostic tool [...]

Meet the SHINE team! Project Leader Dungannon Enterprise Centre Dungannon Enterprise Centre (DEC) is an awarding winning development body and currently employs 10 members of staff. It provides support in many ways depending upon the needs of the entrepreneur and community, such as Industrial and office workspace units to incubate local businesses and third sector organisations, professional business advice and counselling, Training on business start-up, expansion planning, consultancy support in sourcing government support and finance, marketing planning and E-Learning solutions. Dungannon Enterprise Centre’s (DEC) primary aim is to help energise their community through capacity and competency programmes, provision of social innovation [...]

New Phone App Seeks to Help Businesses Navigate their Way through Crises As the tourism industry in many countries is starting to move into what is hoped is a post-pandemic recovery phase there will undoubtedly be structural and managerial readjustments for many businesses as they try to ensure that they are more resilient and able to adapt to future crises. West Highland College UHI’s Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research (CRTR) has recently been awarded funding aimed at addressing this issue. The centre will work with both academic and business partners in Spain, Ireland, Germany, Denmark and Iceland in a three-year [...]

The EU defines the Silver Economy as “the sum of all economic activity that serve the needs of people aged 50 and over, including the products and services they purchase directly and the further economic activity this spending generates.” It stretches across all sectors (public and private) of the economy, including health and nutrition, leisure and well-being, finance and transport, housing, education and employment. Spoiler alert: the silver economy is huge…and growing. A European Commission study conducted by Technopolis and Oxford Economics estimated a baseline value of €3.7 trillion for Europe’s Silver Economy in 2015, measured primarily as private expenditure by [...]