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Sell your food or drink product in a supermarket
How to successfully supply your product for sale in a supermarket or major retailer.
Are you ready to import?
Ensuring you have the right strategy and resources to benefit from importing.
Are you ready to sell your product to a supermarket?
How to prepare and carry out market research ahead of pitching your business to a supermarket.
Advantages and disadvantages of supplying to supermarkets
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of supplying your product to a supermarket before you make an approach.
Challenges of exporting
Challenges of exporting include market research, export paperwork and financing.
Choosing the right export markets
Focusing on export market opportunities that suit your strengths.
Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
Manage export contracts and logistics
Understanding export contracts, delivery and payments.
Plan your export market entry strategy
Choosing the right distribution channels and ways of promoting your product in overseas markets.
Use the right export support services
Government help for exporters and other sources of information and support.
Preparing to export
Assessing whether you are ready to export and planning your approach.
Pitch your product to a supermarket
How to approach supermarkets and successfully pitch your products to them.
Managing the supermarket supplier relationship
How to complain about a supermarket if you are a direct supplier and feel you have been unlawfully or unfairly treated.
Contracts and meeting supermarket demand
Understanding contracts when supplying a supermarket and how to fulfil your order obligations.
Export checklist: review your export readiness
Export readiness review: planning, marketing and export procedures.
Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Information about when you can, or need to, account for VAT on your tax return if you're a UK VAT-registered business.
Food and drink business support and funding
Where to get advice, funding and skills support for food and drink businesses in Northern Ireland.
Funding support for food and drink businesses
Funding support for food and drink businesses in Northern Ireland.
Food and drink business process efficiency
Use a systematic approach to cut costs, waste, water and energy in food and drink processing businesses.
Food and drink business waste reduction
Understand the true cost of waste in your food and drink manufacturing business and how to reduce it.