The Ethical Landscape – Preparing for change

In recent months there have been various trends emerging in food ethics:

· Accreditations organisations have broadened their reach to include many more parts the supply chain and are beginning to compete
· Consumers are beginning to question the validity of ethical marques (e.g. Free Range, Organic etc.)
· More businesses are creating greater competitive advantage through use of ethical marques
· Differentiation for “value” brands is more difficult in the current economic climate.
· Ethics in food has become subject to greater media scrutiny and government attention
· Many Foodservice businesses have developed sophisticated strategies around ethics in their supply chain
· New accreditation schemes for ethical food are emerging and existing accreditation schemes are developing

Our Objective is to provide the foodservice operators with an update of the ethical debate in foodservice and greater clarity around legislative and consumer trends ethical trading and to help the foodservice supply chain develop their strategy towards ethics in foodservice

The proposed content of the event will be:

Ethical Marques update; Ethical Sourcing update; Consumer and customer attitudes and trends; Ethical and cultural issues across the supply chain; accreditation for small producers and operators

For any comments of any input, please email events@footprint-forum.com