Are you the next big thing in food and drink?
Food Manufacture is searching for five of the UK’s most exciting food and drink start-ups to take to the stage and pitch their products, ingredients or technologies live at Food Manufacture 360.
The Pitch Deck is a brand-new competition created to showcase the sector’s most innovative challenger brands and emerging businesses. Finalists will have the opportunity to present directly to a panel of industry judges and in front of a live audience of food and drink manufacturing professionals, while competing for a prize package worth more than £10,000!
Each shortlisted business will deliver a quick-fire pitch outlining its innovation, commercial potential and industry impact. Judges will then put finalists through their paces with a Q&A session, offering valuable feedback and insight from across the food and drink sector.
The overall winner will be crowned at the event.
For more information, including eligibility criteria (also see below), and to enter The Pitch Deck competition, click here.
What’s included?
If selected as a finalist, you will receive:
- Free entry to the competition
- Complimentary attendance at Food Manufacture 360 for shortlisted finalists
- Exposure to senior manufacturers, retailers, investors and industry decision-makers
- Expert feedback from an experienced judging panel
- The chance to win a prize package worth £9,500
Entry deadline: Tuesday 1 December 2026
Eligibility
To enter, your business must:
- Be based in the UK or actively trading in the UK
- Have been founded within the last 10 years
- Employ fewer than 250 people
- Be independently owned
- Be developing an innovative food, drink, ingredient or enabling technology
- Be entering a product, ingredient, technology or innovation that is either pre-launch or has launched within the past two years
