Key industry data
Meeting documents
Presentation
from APPG on Food and Drink Meeting on 16 September
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- The UK food & drink manufacturing sector employs 106,000 EU workers, over 1/4 of
our
workforce
- Manufactured food and drink contributes more than £28bn to the economy, 2.3%
more than
2017
- In 2018, total sales of manufactured food and drink exceeded £74bn
- FDF members are selling 14.3billion fewer teaspoons of sugars than they were in
2015
- FDF members are selling: 4.4 million less kilograms of salt, 57.3 million fewer
kilograms of
sugars, 35.5 million less kilograms of total fat, 1 trillion fewer calories
than
they were in 2015
- The food & drink industry is the biggest manufacturing sector in the
country...larger than
automotive & aerospace combined
- Our industry employs over 430,000 people across every region and nation of the UK
- Our industry has a turnover of more than £105bn, accounting for almost 20% of
total UK
manufacturing
- 96% of the UK's 7,400 food and drink manufacturing businesses are SMEs
- In 2018, UK food and drink exports exceeded £23bn and went to over 220 countries
worldwide
- Our top three export markets are Ireland, the USA and France
- The food supply chain employs 4.3million people and generates over £120billion
of added
value for the economy each year
- The food and drink manufacturing sector delivered a reduction in food waste of
over 30% on
a per capita basis since 2011
- FDF members reported an absolute reduction of 53.2% in CO2 emissions from their
use of
energy in manufacturing operations in 2018, compared to the 1990 baseline
- Almost half of our members identified investment in new product launches, and
increased
demand for healthy food products as opportunities for 2020
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