Innovative products in Glasgow spotlight
Six Argyll food producers are heading to Glasgow to represent Argyll at Scotland’s Speciality Food Show.
The aim is to attract new trade customers, while raising awareness of the high quality food products available in Argyll.
Each producer has set up businesses within the last few years and will be showcasing traditional and innovative products.
Argyll now boasts several coffee roasters and two of them, Argyll Coffee Roasters from Tighnabruaich and Hinba from Seil, will be attending the show.
Also featured will be a new cheese made from Bute milk, Largie; ice-cream from Highland cows at Barcaldine, Highland Fold Ice-cream; gins from Beinn An Tuirc distillers based in Carradale, and newly-developed ready meals and pies from Shellfield farm, Glendaruel, using its home-produced lamb which graze around the Kyles of Bute.
Supported by Argyll and Bute Council’s economic growth team, the Food from Argyll producers will be doing their best to showcase their products and the area and demonstrate the opportunites for new businesses setting up in Argyll.
Food from Argyll, formed in 2007, is a co-operative organisation which promotes a wide range of food producers. The Food from Argyll Café, inside the CalMac terminal in Oban, is run by the group as a showcase for its members.
Scotland’s Speciality Food Show takes place from January 19 to 21 at Glasgow’s SEC.
More than 150 companies will exhibit thousands of products to around 1,000 specialist food buyers.