BCCC Annual Conference 2011 presentations

This event has been a regular feature in the industry's calendar for almost 60 years, primarily as a technology conference.

The 2011 confernece, was more inclusive than ever, with sessions on Nutrition & Health, Labelling, Food Choices & Obesity in the Young and The State of the Industry.

Speakers included some of the most respected figures in their fields.


Speaker Presentations

Introductory Presentations

Perspectives on Nutrition and Health Session

Labelling and Consumers Session

Children as Consumers Session

The State of the Industry Session


Introductory Presentations

FDF & BCCC Position and Priorities

Melanie Leech, Director General, Food & Drink Federation and Nick Stuart, Chairman, BCCC Sector Group Council

Melanie Leech's describes FDF's role and overarching objectives as the trade association for the food and drink manufacturing industry.

The presentation sets out how the Food and Drink Federation is making a real difference to its members through focusing on its priority areas.

In his part of the presentation, Nick gives an overview of the BCCC Council's focus and the key priorities for the BCCC.

Download presentation: FDF & BCCC Position and Priorities - pdf | 138kb

Diet and Health – Nutrition in the Department of Health and the Responsibility Deal

Dr Clair Baynton, Deputy Director, Nutrition Science & Delivery, Department of Health

The Responsibility Deal, which was launched on 15 March 2011, is the main focus of the presentation. The Responsibility Deal comprises 5 networks – food, alcohol, physical activity, health at work and behaviour change. The work of the Food Network will be of specific interest to the meeting participants.

The first phase of work for the Food Network has produced three collective pledges on salt reduction, trans fats removal and out of home calorie labelling, reflecting and building on the progress that businesses have made in these areas.

Download presentation: Diet and Health – Nutrition in the Department of Health and the Responsibility Deal - pdf | 76kb

The State of the Industry

David Jago, Mintel

The UK market faces some significant challenges, with falling penetration of chocolate, rising commodity prices, and pressure from bodies such as the FSA who are pushing for greater focus on and promotion of healthier products.

Nevertheless, half of UK consumers like to treat themselves to things that they know are not good for them, and a third buy chocolate on impulse. Despite concerns over calories and fat content, adults like to reward themselves, and their kids, with sweets and chocolate.

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Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace

Frances Ainley, Corporate Affairs, Mars UK

This presentation provides a brief overview of Mars UK's work on employee health and wellbeing, both for Mars UK employees and the local community.

Mars UK is committed to the idea that 'good health is good business'. Wellbeing activities have been run for employees for over 10 years and in 2006 these activities came under the banner of 'Winning with Wellness', a coordinated Mars UK employee wellbeing scheme.

Download presentation: Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace Deal - pdf | 914kb

Perspectives on Nutrition and Health Session

Nutrition & Health: An Industry Perspective

Sue Gatenby, Nutrition Director, PepsiCo Europe

PepsiCo in 2009 introduced the concept of 'Performance with Purpose' and made a promise to deliver sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, PepsiCo employees and communities. 47 goals and commitments haver been made in four key areas.

Download presentation: Nutrition & Health: An Industry Perspective - pdf | 1.1Mb

Helping Customers Make Healthier Choices

Karen Tonks, Company Nutritionist, Tesco Stores Ltd

Tesco launched its Health Initiative in 1985 – over 25 years ago. Then as now Diet and Health were significant media topics. That initiative has been refined to Tesco strategy today aiming to make it easier for customers to live more healthily.

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The Consumer Group Perspective on Diet & Health

Rachel Davis, Fundraising Volunteer Manager, British Heart Foundation and Sue Pritchard, Community Development Coordinator, British Heart Foundation

Rachel starts this presentation by giving an overview of the British Heart Foundation including; How and why it was formed and what are its aims?

Sue then explains more about the “Prevention and Care” sector of the organisation, including initiatives like Food4Thought for schools.

Download presentation: The Consumer Group Perspective on Diet & Health - pdf | 325kb

The Consumer Insight - The Changing Agenda

Claire Nuttall, 1HQ

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Labelling and Consumers Session

Health claims

Dr Alexander Schoch, Manager - Regulatory Affairs, The Beneo Institute

“Nothing is more constant than change” - this citation of the Greek Philosopher Heraclites is particularly true when we have a look at the past years in the food regulatory arena in Europe. While the overall aim and welcome approach of this development is to provide a harmonized legal framework for the EU 27 Member States (e.g. for additives used or for mandatory labeling), nothing has been discussed more controversially among all the stakeholders involved than the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (NHCR).

Download presentation: Health claims - pdf | 1.5Mb

Labelling – Key Current Legal Developments & Their Practical Implications

Owen Warnock, Partner, Eversheds LLP

Food labelling is constantly in the news, but much of this relates to initiatives by individual manufacturers and retailers and to non-statutory good practice schemes. Changes in the law are rare because they require enough agreement amongst EU member states and MEPs for a European Regulation or Directive to be adopted.

Download presentation: Labelling – Key Current Legal Developments & Their Practical Implications - pdf | 1.5Mb

The Impact of Labelling on Consumer Choice

Gerardine Padbury, Senior Consultant in Consumer Research, Harris Interactive

Gerardine speaks about consumers' usage and understanding of food labelling, in a fascinating and insightful presentation designed to help product owners understand how to get the most out of their packaging communications.

Download presentation: The Impact of Labelling on Consumer Choice - pdf | 428kb

Children as Consumers Session

Advertising and Marketing to Children

Melanie Leech, Director General, Food & Drink Federation

Melanie Leech's presentation will briefly set out the history of advertising in food and drink before providing a current industry perspective from FDF's health and wellbeing work.

She will provide some examples of corporate policies and look at the global as well as UK perspective.

The presentation will also consider how to harness the power of advertising and marketing techniques to provide public health benefits.

Download presentation: Advertising and Marketing to Children - pdf | 410kb

The CAP Code, Children & Digital Advertising

Laura Coffey, Investigations Manager, Advertising Standards Authority

This presentation will give a general overview of the Advertising Standards Authority, its remit and procedures for investigating complaints. It will also outline the extension of the ASA's digital remit to include advertiser's own websites and explain the core new remit areas. The main focus of the presentation will be on the special protection afforded to children by the CAP Code, which applies in full to the new digital remit extension.

Download presentation: The CAP Code, Children & Digital Advertising - pdf | 1.6Mb

Childhood Obesity

Modi Mwatsama, National Heart Forum

Download presentation: Childhood Obesity - pdf | 946kb

The State of the Industry Session

Progress in Competitiveness and Skills Issues

Angela Coleshill, HR & Competitiveness Director, Food & Drink Federation

Through work with members of the Competitiveness Steering Group FDF aims to champion itself as the driving force in promoting careers in the industry. The 'Taste Success – A Future in Food' careers campaign aims to illustrate to potential entrants that the UK food and drink manufacturing sector is a viable 'career of first choice'.

Download presentation: Progress in Competitiveness and Skills Issues - pdf | 609kb

Lean Systems Thinking

Professor Peter Hines, Co-founder & Honorary Professor, Lean Enterprise Research Unit, Cardiff University.

The approach described focuses upon making Lean Thinking 'a way of life' and reaping the resulting benefits. It looks at the elements that need to be in place to complete a Lean transformation. Used well, the approach and the interventions and tools that lie behind it can provide any organisation with a Lean roadmap that is specific to them.

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From Art to Science

Steve Diggines, Business Leader, STI and Simon Lawson, Marketing Manager, GEIP

“Art to science” is an on-going collaboration between GE, its partners and customers to apply a rigorous and scientific approach to process optimisation in the Food Industry.

Sectors such as Food have lagged in the application of analytical tools and techniques to optimise manufacturing processes largely because the business case is not there for product advantage.

The presenters propound that there is a demonstrable business case for applying these techniques for process advantage, largely around reducing waste and improving efficiency of food production with associated positive implications for food safety.

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Last reviewed: 27 Jun 2011