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Consortia for Agri-Food Europe
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Putting Business First Private/Public Sector
Collaboration
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The world can only be grasped by action, not
contemplation
Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man
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Food Industry USP What other industry replaces
its raw materials every year?
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European Food Sector

•  Opportunities
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• Research strength
• Well placed to export
• Potential for import substitution

• Threats
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• Low growth
• Reducing employment
• International competitiveness

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What does the food industry need?
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Opportunity to work together to understand the
industry in the consortia regions to learn from
each other
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Get the business view on the issues identified,
helping the consortia to understand better
business needs and define priority actions
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Where the Private and Public sectors meet and
discuss their needs in an atmosphere of mutual
trust and partnership, Positive outcomes result
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CAFÉ provides an opportunity to develop effective
partnerships both with industry and between
member regions
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CAFÉ HISTORY Programme development steps June
2000 BIOSPHERE July 2000 FOOD FOR
THOUGHT September 2000 CAFÉ October 2001 Kick
Off Meeting
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European Food Drink Sector Europe is the
worlds largest market for agri-food
products Annual Value of Production gt 550 b
euro 3rd Largest Employer in EU gt 2.5 m
employees Total Value Added gt 125 b euro Annual
Growth Rate (10 yr av.) 2
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• Café Objectives
• Develop the CAFÉ network to facilitate the
  exchange of knowledge, techniques and information
  between members and their regions Food
  Companies.
• Analyse the Food Industry in the member regions
  against a common analytical model, identifying
  priority areas for CAFÉ activity.
• Review existing business support provision to the
  Food Industry in member regions, identify and
  record good practice programmes provided by both
  the public sector and the industry itself.
• Identify opportunities for trans-regional
  cooperation between firms and for new value added
  collaborative business support activity between
  public sector and industry in the food sector.
• Identify existing research and technology
  transfer activity between industry and the
  research base and opportunities for new research
  and development activity to support the CAFÉ
  priority actions.
• Develop an effective Information System for
  members others linked to CAFÉ.

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• Café Member Benefits
• Better understanding of the Food Industry in your
  region and the opportunity to benchmark their
  performance against other regions
• Prioritised list of business support needs
  supported by food industry
• Good practice review of business support
  programmes to aid future industry support
  activity
• Trans regional trading opportunities for regional
  companies
• Access to new technology and RD programmes from
  other regions
• Opportunity to develop collaborative programmes
  with your regions Food Businesses
• New network links with other CAFÉ regions

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• Café Process
• Analyse - Develop and complete a common
  analytical template to monitor business
  regional activity and produce interim report and
  good practice business support guide.
• Define Priority issues facing food industry in
  partnership with Food Industry representatives at
  Orientation Conference.
• Address Develop joint programmes both cross
  region and business/region based to address five
  priority issues.
• Report Report on both CAFÉ process and outputs
  at final conference.
• Exit Develop a strategy to maintain and develop
  best parts of CAFÉ process both for use in Food
  Sector and for other business sectors.

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• Café Outputs
• Improved links between CAFÉ regions and the Food
  Industry
• New business opportunities for regions Food
  Industry leading to enhance competitiveness
• Good practice business support guide to aid
  future programme development
• Improved links between CAFÉ member regions
• Effective network model for application to other
  industry sectors

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The first step is to map activities within the
regions, using a common reporting framework
(Template)

• How can we best structure the template to allow
  for
• capture of relevant and readily available
  information
• comparison and interpretation of information
  against common criteria ?

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The Food Industry is defined for this project as
all business activity post harvest of food
products (including fish), predominantly the
manufacture of food and drink, to the point of
delivery to the customer, whether retail,
wholesale or the food service industry
Primary production
Primary processing
Value added processing
Logistics
Wholesale retail
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The Template should aim to capture

• Key technological and economic intelligence
• Innovation best practice
• Nature and scope of business support network
• Key performance indicators and criteria
• Activities identifying added value
• Opportunities for collaboration between
  businesses
• New trading opportunities between food
  businesses
• Opportunities for public sector collaboration

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Initial template (1)

• Basic information on regional food industry
• Statistics (turnover/employment)
• Description of main features
• Main products
• Main knowledge providers
• Documentation

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Template (2)

• Key food supply chains support
  infrastructure
• Statistics (dynamics in T/O/ of
  firms/employment)
• Main companies
• Main market/technology/policy trends
• RD resources/centres/facilities
• Knowledge/skills/business support base
• Best practices in Biz to Biz in public sector
  initiatives
• Needs and opportunities in an international
  perspective
• Identification of business champions

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Process

• Interim report for Orientation Conference on 31st
  May 2002 ? basis for formation of working groups
• Interim report
• Identification of common Biz issues
  opportunities
• Identification of common public sector issues
  opps
• Review of good practices
• Identification of regions offering/seeking
  assistance

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Timetable to interim report (1)

• Template as basis for analysis (of crucial
  importance)
• Aims and objectives
• Definitions and models
• Guidelines
• Food Sector issues market technology RD
• Competitiveness policy issues
• Business support issues (good practices/needs)
• (Statistics/qualitative questions/reports)

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Timetable to interim report (2)

• Next months
• Template design interaction with pilot regions
  (Dec)
• Research i.e. European forecast studies
• 2nd week of January 2002 Main Template received
• Deadline 15th March 2002 (2 months to work on
  it)

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After the 15th of March 2002

• March/April 2002 Analysis of template
• 22 April 3 May opportunity to suggest changes
• 17th May distribution of interim report.