Happy Christmas from the Food Manufacture team

The team will return on Tuesday January 3 to bring you more news, views, insight and analysis from Britain’s biggest and best manufacturing sector: food and drink.

Watch out for two special newsletters over the holidays – on Wednesday December 28 and Friday December 30 – showcasing our most popular content published over the past year.

Thank you for helping the Food Manufacture Group go from strength-to-strength during 2016.

Highlights of our year included: FoodManufacture.co.uk reaching its highest ever independently-audited circulation of 130,922 unique monthly visitors earlier this year.

130,922 unique monthly visitors​

In addition to our free newsletters​ – delivered to your tablet, smartphone desktop, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday – we also increased the range of our specialist monthly newsletters.

These now include our Supply chain and logistics newsletter, Food safety newsletter​, Food Manufacture: some of the best bits​, Food Ingredients, Health and Nutrition​ and our latest newsletter Food Manufacture’s Focus on people and skills​.

Over the past year our social media profile has soared to top 33,000 contacts, with our Twitter followers numbering 22,118 together with 9,050 members of our LinkedIn group – The Food Manufacturing Network – and nearly 2,000 Facebook likes.

Also Food Manufacture Group events – underpinned by our thriving monthly publication Food Manufacture​​ – have enjoyed continuing success.

Business Leaders’ Forum on January 24​

Next year’s events line­up includes the Business Leaders’ Forum on January 24 in central London and our one-­day Food safety conference and the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards​, together with our programme of online events, providing must-­have, essential business information for the UK largest manufacturing sector.

For more information about any of the above events, please click on the hotlinks or contact Mike Stones​.

Meanwhile, whatever next year may hold in terms of challenges and opportunities, the Food Manufacture Group will deliver the very best of independent news, views and insights focused on British food and drink manufacturing.

So, from everyone at the Food Manufacture Group, have a Happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year.