Sales Directors’ Forum
In the first of our Sales Directors’ Forums for 2020 we’ll be
joined by guest speaker Andy Kemp, Group Sales and Marketing Director at Bidfood and Christine Tacon, CBE, Groceries Code Adjudicator.
We’ll hear about Bidfood and the GCA's plans and priorities for the
forthcoming year and current strategic plans.
Our Sales Directors’ Forums are a powerful forum bringing together the
Sales Directors in our membership with leading retail figures for a regular
exchange of views and debate.
**Small Business rate £150 - please get in touch with claire.conquest@fdf.org.uk to secure your place
Speakers:
Andy Kemp
One of the best-known and most-respected faces in the Hospitality Industry,
there aren’t many individuals that can compete with Andy Kemp’s
repertoire of experience in Foodservice.
An experienced marketer and sales director, Andy’s career has seen him
launch or relaunch many of the consumers favourite brands here in the UK, and
become an ambassador for Hospitality both inside Bidfood and outside –
promoting the Industry as a whole to international audiences.
Andy is known to many across the Foodservice sector not just for his role as
Group Sales and Marketing Director of Bidfood, but for his voluntary and
charity
work where he works tirelessly with the Industry’s two charities;
Springboard and Hospitality Action (as well as many other charitable
organizations’), focusing his energy around key issues such as holiday
hunger, nutrition in
youth as well as generation Y skills, future talent, careers and mentoring.
Christine Tacon
Christine Tacon has been the Groceries Code Adjudicator since 2013, regulating
the UK’s largest grocery retailers in the way they treat their suppliers.
She is working to achieve behaviour change and a more equitable relationship
between retailers and suppliers through persuasion and the promotion of good
practices.
Christine is also a non-executive director of the AF Group and Chair of MDS Limited, a training
provider for graduates in the fresh food and produce industry. Her professional background is as a Chartered Engineer with 12 years’
experience in sales and marketing. For 11 years she ran the largest farming
business in the UK. She was awarded a CBE for services to agriculture in 2004.
Organiser: Claire Conquest, 020 7420 7105, claire.conquest@fdf.org.uk