WHY ATTEND
Consumer’s behaviours are increasingly motivated by their physical and mental health, leading to a demand for low, non-alcoholic, and functional beverages. Managing the opportunities and challenges associated with a saturated and competitive industry is essential to ensuring customers receive the highest quality beverages. But what do these challenges and opportunities look like in a post-covid world? And how we can tackle them as an industry?
Introducing the Lo & No and Functional Beverage Europe Summit, 17 - 18 November (with an additional virtual day 9th November) where multinational alcohol and soft drinks brands, innovative start-ups, active investors, buyers, e-commerce providers, logistics and service providers across Europe meet to find ways to innovate and gain scale in the industry.
Our balanced and in-depth content will allow you the opportunity to explore opportunities such as innovation, market expansion, sustainability, scaling and investment, whilst also tackling challenges such as regulation, and attracting on-trade and off-trade buyers. The Lo & No and Functional Beverages Summit provides a platform for you to grow your network and explore partnership opportunities for investment, joint ventures, or even acquisitions between the hottest brands in the market.
TASTING TABLES
We are excited to announce the launch of our tasting tables. We know how important it is for investors and buyers to try your drinks, so we are offering tasting table to showcase your drinks to potential investors and buyers! Tasting tables allow attendees to not only hear about your product but experience for themselves
Contact [email protected] to book now
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Mark Loughborough
Lia Schmökel
Gareth Bath
Simon de Beauregard
Matt Hughes
THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT PARTNERS
Gold Partners
PureCircle
Website: https://www.purecircle.com/
PureCircle has reimagined sweet taste with Stevia, a plant-based, zero-calories solution. As consumers try to actively reduce their sugar, they are looking for other options. This is where PureCircle Reb M stevia come in, it offers a sugar-like taste, supports non-GMO, "natural" flavours and is cost competitive. Be a part of the future of sweet taste with Purecircle who can help you achieve your next taste breakthrough.
Silver Partners
Treatt
Website: https://www.treatt.com/
Treatt is a trusted ingredients and natural extracts provider to the global flavour, fragrance and consumer goods markets from our bases in the UK, the US and China.
We have been making the world taste better since our foundation in 1886. Committed to continuous improvement, we have deep established roots and a visionary strategic path that drives us forward.
Our people are creative, technically excellent and dedicated - allowing us to develop and supply a range of ready-made or bespoke systems to suit even the most adventurous needs.
Everyone from logistics, HR, finance, operations and research and development to sales, marketing, planning, IT and procurement work together, making us the sustainable partner of choice for our international customer base.
Media Partners
IWSR
Website: https://www.theiwsr.com/
IWSR is the leading source of data and intelligence on the alcoholic beverage market. The IWSR database, essential to the industry, quantifies the global market of wine, spirits, beer, cider and RTDs (ready-to-drink) by volume and value in 160 countries, and provides insight into short- and long-term trends, including five-year volume and value forecasts, as well as consumer behaviour. IWSR tracks overall consumption and trends at brand, price segment and category level. Our data is used by the major international wine, spirits and beer companies, as well as financial and alcoholic beverage market suppliers.
IWSR’s unique methodology allows us to get closer to what is actually consumed and better understand how markets work. IWSR boasts a team of global analysts, each of whom is equipped with local market expertise and an expansive network of on-the-ground industry contacts. Our analysts meet and speak with their industry contacts throughout the year in order to capture local insight, key market trends, and the 'why' behind the numbers.
British Beer & Pub Association
Website: https://beerandpub.com/
We champion issues that matter to the beer and pub industry. These are causes our members are passionate about; whether it’s promoting beer as the nation’s drink, or campaigning against increases to beer duty and businesses rates that are so damaging to community pubs. Our members are responsible for 90% of the beer brewed in Britain today and we represent around 20,000 of the country’s pubs. They include international companies, family brewers, managed locals and the nation’s largest tenanted pub estates. It’s a diverse group, but we are passionate about representing, supporting and campaigning for the wellbeing of the beer and pub sector.
British Soft Drinks Association
Website: http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/
The British Soft Drinks Association represents UK producers of soft drinks, including carbonated drinks, still and dilutable drinks, fruit juices and bottled waters. Membership includes the majority of Britain’s soft drinks manufacturers as well as franchisors, importers and suppliers to the UK soft drinks industry.
BrewUp
Website: https://brewup.eu/
BrewUp is Europe’s brewers’ knowledge portal, the central point at European level where brewers can find information, tips, data, guidance on brewing technologies, brewing techniques, marketing, trade forecast and business insights as well as the EBC Analytica. BrewUp has been developed to service European brewers and provide them with data and information that will help them grow their business and improve their brewing skills.
Just browse through BrewUp, see what’s available and feel free to get in touch!
Sober Girl Society
Website: https://sobergirlsociety.com/
Sober Girl Society was founded by Millie Gooch in September 2018 with one simple purpose – to show the world that you can still live a fun and fulfilled life after you break up with booze.
Sober Girl Society is now one of the largest communities for sober women around the planet providing tips, resources and events for anyone who wants to bin the gin for good.
Bar Magazine
Website: www.barmagazine.co.uk
Bar magazine represents the hospitality sector, offering inspiration, guidance and business help for venue owners, operators and managers. The exclusive monthly content covers all aspects of creating and running a successful bar, from planning, design and installation through to training, law, finance and technology. Ultimately, Bar magazine is used as a buying tool by hospitality decision makers looking to improve their business. The content within the magazine features coverage of a wide variety of drinks and cocktails. Inside every issue there are also pages dedicated to food in bars, reflecting the growth in casual dining, gastrobars and street food.
Global Drinks Intel
Website: http://www.drinks-intel.com/
Global Drinks Intel is a must-read trade digital and print magazine for the global drinks business which is read by over 16,000 industry decisionmakers in more than 92 countries worldwide. Edited by highly experienced journalist Alex Smith, the publication focuses on the wine and spirits sector. At a time of unprecedented societal change, it aims to be a one-stop shop for the busy drinks executive, offering an independent and unparalleled mix of global coverage, industry insights and high-level interviews. The drinks industry is overwhelmed with information. Intel. curates that information for you, bringing to light in a concise manner the ‘how and why’ behind the top-line numbers.
The magazine features a mix of cutting-edge interviews, detailed category reports and insightful market analysis and works closely with leading market research firms such as IWSR research, Wine Intelligence and on-premise consultancy CGA. We take a full-market approach, interviewing not only suppliers, but also distributors, retailers and on-premise establishments to give you a 360-degree market view. Global Drinks Intel has a strong focus on travel retail. Kevin Rozario is our Retail Editor. Published monthly, current distribution is to duty free buyers, agents, travel retail buyers, global drinks brands, market analysts, financial institutions, international and domestic retail buyers, bar owners, mixologists and bar tenders and stores.
Who Will Be There
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartStart-ups and Mid Tier Independent Brands40%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartMultinational Soft Drinks Providers20%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartMultinational Alcoholic Drinks Providers20%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartVenture Capital Firms5%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartOn trade5%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartOff trade5%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartE-commerce and Logistics Companies5%
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Start-ups and Mid Tier Independent Brands40%
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Multinational Soft Drinks Providers20%
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Multinational Alcoholic Drinks Providers20%
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Venture Capital Firms5%
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On trade2.5%
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Off trade2.5%
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E-commerce and Logistics Companies5%
Speakers
Debbie Richards Novograd
Bill Gamelli
As an innovator in the No/Lo alcohol adult beverage industry, Bill and his family are proud to be exporting their premium drinks, made in the U.K., to 3 Continents. Bill brings his 15 years of finance experience at the global investment banks where his practice focused on post IPO and M&A liquidity for Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Start-up Company clients. Bill earned his undergraduate degree with double majors in economics and political science from Boston University, where he met his roommate, friend, and co-founder, Jim Dowla and, lucky for him, his wife Tracy. She turned out to be the inspiration for creating Mocktails, along with other family members among the Founders, Jim Dowla ad Mark Guthrie. Once Bill discovered that Mark and Jim were also starting a No/Lo alcohol beverage company, and they realized that 3 of 6 adults in their families were non-drinkers, it was an easy decision to pool their resources, and Mocktails was born.
Ellie Webb
Thorsten Hartmann
James Hopkins
Morten Sørensen
Matt Hughes
Amanda Thomson
Ben Branson
Rob Fink
Ivan Farneti
Ivan has been an active venture capital investor for the last 20 years and he is the co-founder of Five Seasons Ventures, the first European venture fund fully focused on Foodtech.
He is passionate about product and technology innovation aimed at solving big challenges in the food industry: from alternative sources of proteins, to functional foods, from new models of food distribution to the reduction of food waste. At Five Seasons he invested in Tropic Biosciences (plants gene editing), Butternut Box (DNVB pet nutrition), THIS.co (plant-based meat alternatives), Cortilia (D2C fresh food retailer), YFood Labs (balanced meal replacements), Just Spices (D2C spices), Yamo (D2C fresh baby food) and La Fourche (D2C organic groceries).
His experience from previous venture funds in London, includes structuring investments, organizational and strategy development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits. He was an early stage investor in Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), Tridion (acq. by SDL Plc), Gomez (acq. by Compuware), among others.
In his spare time he enjoys family life, cooking, fly fishing, and practicing jiu-jitsu with his son Adam.
Gareth Bath
Mark Loughborough
Mathilde Boulachin
Tatiana Mercer
Dash Lilley
Daniel J F I’Anson
Igor Parshin
Laura Willoughby MBE
Dan Gooderham
Spencer Matthews
Andrew Lim
Craig Hutchinson
Founder / CEO of CEDER'S Alt-Gin which he developed and grew to be sold in over 20 countries before the successful sale to Pernod Ricard in 2020. Has also launched CELTIC SOUL Non-Alc Dark Spirit and M&C’s CBD Botanical Spirit.
Jonny Stevens
Luke Boase
Matt Lambert
Zoey Henderson
Paul Tecker
Paul’s career began in retail marketing as a Category Manager / Buyer for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at a major convenience store chain. He then moved to the brand side as a Brand Manager for Hansen’s - Monster Beverage Company. After Hansen’s was sold to Coca-Cola, Paul acted as a consultant to natural and organic beverage companies and personally launched H2OPS Sparkling Hop Water, a zero alcohol, unsweetened, refreshing hoppy alternative to beer. This innovation won the Beverage Innovation of the Year award from Beverage Industry Magazine and is growing rapidly in the US.
Dan Whiteside
Erika Doyle
James Kindred
Lia Schmökel
Eugenio Muraro
He has over 15 years of work experience in Sales & Marketing, first in the mechanical sector and then in the renewable energy sector. It was a period, during which he has achieved a mixture of skills and a knowledge of the international scene through frequent business trips abroad. His
passion for the world of cocktails led him in 2002 to successfully attend a professional bartending course. Later he participated in the 2015-2017 MBA Executive of the MIP Politecnico di Milano. The Master Degree program included the presentation of a business plan for the creation of a startup company and his project was awarded in July 2017. This project is called MeMento.
David Begg
Claire Warner
Tristan Bruemmer
Anne Stephens
Brendan Williams
Millie Gooch
Vicky Berry
Simon de Beauregard
Julie Cielo
Mark Livings
Felix von Hurter
Olivia Ferdi
Chris Draper
Charlotte Catignani
Danielle Bekker
Professor Dave Nutt
DOWNLOAD THE AGENDA
Be the first to download our 2021 European agenda and re-join the beverage community in person!
Sessions include:
- A 360 View of Regulation and Labelling Requirements in the Lo & No Space
- Leading Buyers of the On-Trade Market: How Brands Can Gain Interest From Retailers
- From Innovation to Growth: The Need for Investment and Scaling
- Taste Profiling and Flavour Innovation
Our agenda provides all the information you need to book your place at Lo & No and Functional Beverage Summit Europe, access your copy today!
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