Question – does your mum still buy you an Easter egg? I’ve been reading the food trade press, so you don’t have to, and there’s a shocking figure in there, I’d love to hear your opinion on? I’m sharing my favourite products from the M&S range reviews for Easter 2025 and a few “so...
Never an easy answer as I’m likely to go off piste talking about food, then the market position, target markets, niches, messaging and actually eating! This food business is such a joy! Yesterday I stopped off at my favourite place for inspiration. Take a minute to find out where it is. As the...
Here at Umami Design for Food, we’re always looking for new and exciting ways to showcase the delicious designs we create for our clients. And today, we’re chuffed to bits to announce the arrival of our brand-new brochure! We’ve poured our creativity and passion into crafting...
I’m back reading the food trade press, so you don’t have to, and although it’s January, Christmas is still very much front of mind as I review the best-performing food retailers and share some incredible stats around their trading and product launches. The second story is...
It’s a great start to the year, with press releases written by Umami featuring for our clients Granarolo UK and Midland Chilled Foods Ltd on the Food Manufacture website. Granarolo UK also made the press “in the case of the missing cheese” story in Harrogate, where, in...
☕️ Grab a coffee (ideally a great one) and let me share what 2024 taught me about our wonderful food industry… After 35 years in food, this year reinforced something I’ve always known – our industry thrives on relationships and resilience. From navigating 18 days without...
Here at Umami Design for Food, we thrive on helping our clients make a real splash in the food industry. We were particularly excited to partner with the fantastic Pacific West Foods for the highly anticipated Lunch! 2024 show, providing a comprehensive package of design, build, marketing...
Networking? It’s been a while… and an opportunity to share our new brochures and business cards. This week I visited Sterling Networks in Cheltenham with Haddon Sullivan. It was fabulous to catch up h up with Jason Hyde 💡 Reducing your energy costs and meet lots of new contacts. I used to...
I’ve been living in South Wales for over 15 years, to be honest Chepstow is not exactly the culinary centre of the world. But, we do have Bristol just 25 minutes away, with a reputation for independent operators and great start ups. Bristol is our go to place for all things food and shopping,...
Although our clients are super busy with the reopening of hospitality, it’s essential that medium and long term projects continue. That’s where we come in, by working on these projects we can take that stress away. This is the link to the new CSR flipbook for our client Portion...
Over the last year, it’s understandable that food suppliers have been distracted with simply surviving. As suppliers to the hospitality sector the every day pressures were daunting. But, as we move forward this article from Footprint highlights the importance of a comprehensive CSR...
On Monday 12th April 2021, the hospitality sector is starting to come out of lockdown for (hopefully) the final time. We understand the immense pressure that food producers and manufacturing businesses have been under during this last year, and that’s why we are determined to help companies...
We’re delighted to see our client featured in The Caterer’s BBQ article in early April 2021. Regular followers will know that Michelle Dalley reads the food trade press religiously, but did you know that as Fairfax Meadow’s head of marketing, she writes for the food trade press, so they don’t...
For regular followers of Umami on Instagram or LinkedIn, you may know Michelle Dalley reads the trade press, so you don’t have to. But did you know we also WRITE for the trade press so you don’t have to? As an outsourced marketing manager there are many jobs that come across our desk, but one...
We live life In colour every day. It’s literally everywhere. But when you start to study colour and what it means, you start to really notice it, and it’s impact, so much more. It’s amazing how colour changes your mood, whether it’s clothes, book covers, home décor or food packaging design,...
Now you’ve had time to digest the government timeline for hospitality reopening, there’s SO much to do! That’s why we’ve created this 15 step checklist to help food businesses get ready for post lockdown success. If you’re one of the many food businesses that have been...
Do you remember Easter 2020? No, neither do we! This time last year we were all in the early stages of understanding what the pandemic meant for our families, businesses and the food and drink sector. We rarely went out, home deliveries were as rare as easter eggs on shelves on Easter Sunday,...
It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by Hugh Reilly from www.thatchannel.com , with Canadian based Ian Graham from Global Food Alliances and Jeff Kearney from Jeff Kearney Consulting. The focus of the interview was to discuss how the UK and...
Whether your food business is supplying fresh, frozen or ambient products, there’s no doubt that right now you need to be looking to maximise sales revenue. If your business has not yet taken the step to online sales to the public, NOW is the right time to move into that market space....
We’re excited to share this press release on our latest new venture in collaboration with Rene Power from Vision B2B! Food industry veteran Michelle Dalley has teamed up with business marketing and training specialist René Power to launch the first of a kind exclusive...
Recently I was asked to speak at a small business breakfast event about my career in the food industry and how that has influenced my business. For those that don’t know me, my first role in the food sector started thirty years ago this year. Let me say that again slowly – THIRTY...
At Umami we are so passionate about design and food that Instagram is quite possibly the perfect social media platform for us! I genuinely think in hashtags (and song lyrics – but that’s another story!), so posting on Instagram is easy for me. We often get comments from people...
If you’re a food manufacturer here’s further evidence that the market is in a state of change. This provides huge challenges for the market leaders and opportunities for the next tier of producers to step up and take some of the opportunities on the table. Are you ready? It’s sad news that...
