How to manage rising food prices

Hot Topic Lecture 25th January 2012Portsmouth Business School

The challenges of rising costs in a fast changing food sector as a producer, wholesaler and

retailer.

Hot Topic Lecture 25th January 2012Portsmouth Business School

What do we do at Sunnyfields?

Grow crops - Keep livestock – Processing – Farm Kitchen, Café and ButcheryWholesaling – Retailing – Farmers’ Markets and ownFull Home Delivery Service and Farm ShopEvents / functionsEducation and training

The Future:

For Food and More

What is:

It is a Partnership between many people and

organisations designed to grow strong

communities. At its core is Food….with the More

being the flesh that surrounds the core.

A Partnership arrangement that will be

transparent, that will build trust, which will

allow Sunnyfields to grow into a multi-faceted

partnership large enough to make large

positive sustainable changes from the bottom

up.

What is?

Clegg hails John Lewis as blueprint for British business

 16 January 2012,

The John Lewis Partnership is being touted as the blueprint for the future of

British business in a speech made today (16 January) by Deputy Prime

Minister Nick Clegg.

Yes, without any doubt - Delivering:• People Profit – strong communties• Environmental Profit – +ve benefits• Monetary Profit - £

In otherwords the triple bottom line, people planet, profit

Do we need one?

What will it do?

It will grow an infrastructure which will result in large amounts of

the food in the UK being grown in the UK with consumers and

producers alike having some real ownership of the food chain.

This will deliver food security, build strong communities and a

robustness to be able to face challenges such as climate

change, energy challenges and economic challenges such as

we have today.

As food is so influential and interlinked to so many

issues such as health, water, energy prices, commodity

prices, packaging, waste, social structures, town centre

vitality, rural economies….and more – and with food at

the core of the partnership - with food production,

processing, distribution and selling as its “business”

engine - in combination with large scale partner

ownership to give economies of scale – it will succeed

Will it succeed?

Some physical site attributes and activities

Accommodation

Food Distribution and Processing Facilities including Abattoirs, Bakeries, Breweries, Milling and commercial Kitchens

Eateries, Restaurants and Cafes

Education and Training

Food Production, Growing Crops and Livestock

Function space

Leisure activities

Market Areas

Research and Development facilities

wholesaling and Retailing

Sustainable Buildings, Energy and Technologies

and more.....

How can you become involved?

Take a lead role, by becoming a lead partner

A lead partner is a founding partner in a key

sector joining the partnership to develop and

build the first sites / business models. UK role

out is planned. Or just become a partner!

As a reminder:

Transparency, trust and collaboration will deliver real

sustainability and with not many things as pivotal or

more influential than food.

The Sunnyfields Partnership is the vehicle to deliver

sustainability on many fronts with food at its core.

Ian Nelson