Shropshire Festivals have launched a new online marketplace to support the region’s food and drink businesses.
Shropshire Food and Drink is a brand-new website, offering a platform to help local businesses reach more people.
Food and drink businesses from Shropshire can sign up to be listed on the website’s local directory, as well as benefitting from shared resources within the network. Shropshire Festivals already work with hundreds of local businesses through their annual events, Shrewsbury Food Festival and Shropshire Oktoberfest, as well as their online shop, the Shropshire Hamper Company. They already have over 120 businesses listed on the new website.
Beth Heath, Shropshire Festivals’ Director of Fun, said she has wanted to create a central hub for some time, and during the pandemic had the space to put the idea in to action.
She said, “We have created a platform where Shropshire’s food and drink businesses can market themselves to the world. Locals and visitors to Shropshire will be able to find these businesses online and will have the resources to support them by buying online through our website. It will give smaller producers who do not have their own website their very own webpage.
“Our aim is to build a stronger industry for Shropshire food and drink. There are hundreds of food and drink businesses in the region but they are lacking a collective voice that can raise the profile of our local offering and cement Shropshire as a destination for food and drink.
“We want Shropshire’s food and drink businesses, the length and breadth of the supply chain, to sign up. Small businesses have always struggled to keep up with the big commercial brands, even more so with the strain and challenges caused by the pandemic. We want to pull these businesses together in one place, to showcase all the amazing businesses we have to offer, building a stronger presence for every Shropshire farmer, producer, brewer, baker, manufacturer, restaurant owner, street food vendor and so on! We can help them reach a bigger audience to preserve their future."
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