Food & Drink Business Bytes is a Podcast brought to you by Highlands & Islands Enterprise as part of the business support service from the Food & Drink Tech Hub. The Food & Drink Tech Hub support is acknowledged as a Northern Innovation Hub project and also funded by the City-Region Deal. Food & Drink Business Bytes brings you everything you need to know about upcoming events, resources, and any funding and support available to food & drink businesses in the Highlands*. We bring you all this, with a splash of fun and conversation, featuring business stories from the are ..read more

A conversation with Alex MacDonald, co-founder of Northpoint Distillery, located in Forss, outside Thurso. In this conversation we hear about how Alex, a former Tech Start-up mogul, paired with Struan, his PwC consultant, to pursue their dream, a Distillery in the North-West of Scotland, producing sustainable and award-winning spirits, including their long awaited Dalclaggie Scotch Whisky. In this conversation we learn more about how Alex and the team prepared for investment and sought funding, we learn about their ethos of ‘People, Place, Spirit’ and hear about some of the many opportunities ..read more

A conversation with Martin Sherring, one of the trustees of The Highland Good Food Partnership and a co-creator of The Black Isle Feast, a common interest group supported by Food & Drink Tech Hub. We discuss the partnership’s aims, the success of the common interest group, some of the challenges that food producers face in the Highlands, and wrap up with a quick look at food waste solutions for the Highlands, and how The Highland Good Food Partnership will be involved with Scotland’s Good Food Act. Food & Drink Business Bytes is a Podcast brought to you by Highlands & Islands Enter ..read more

A conversation with Allene Bruce, Director of New Nutrition Business, and Fee Stott, Product Development Manager at Aqua Scot about Food trends and Product Development.  Food & Drink Business Bytes is a Podcast brought to you by Highlands & Islands Enterprise as part of the business support service from the Food & Drink Tech Hub. The Food & Drink TechHUB support is acknowledged as a Northern Innovation Hub project and also funded by the City-Region Deal. Food & Drink Business Bytes brings you everything you need to know about upcoming events, resources, and any funding ..read more

A conversation with Ciara Bow, Founder of Gledfield Distillery Food & Drink Business Bytes is a Podcast brought to you by Highlands & Islands Enterprise as part of the business support service from the Food & Drink Tech Hub. The Food & Drink TechHUB support is acknowledged as a Northern Innovation Hub project and also funded by the City-Region Deal. Food & Drink Business Bytes brings you everything you need to know about upcoming events, resources, and any funding and support available to food & drink businesses in the Highlands*. We bring you all this, with a splash of ..read more

A conversation with Hannah Taylor from Gut Feelings Kombucha Business Bytes is a Podcast brought to you by Highlands & Islands Enterprise as part of the business support service from the Food & Drink Tech Hub. The Food & Drink TechHUB support is acknowledged as a Northern Innovation Hub project and also funded by the City-Region Deal. Business Bytes brings you everything you need to know about upcoming events, resources, and any funding and support available to food & drink businesses in the Highlands*. We bring you all this, with a splash of fun and conversation, featuring bus ..read more

Thanks for joining me, Kerry Hammond for the third episode of Food & Drink Business Bytes, a podcast that brings Food and Drink Businesses in the Highland Council area all of the latest events, resources, funding opportunities and support available through Highland & Islands Enterprises Food & Drink Business Support Service, part of the Northern Innovation Hub, Food & Drink Tech Hub project. On today’s episode I speak to Claire Munro the Senior Project Manager for the Northern Innovation Hub and project manager for the Food & Drink TechHUB facility. Claire tells us about th ..read more