Professional Associate Members

In addition to our own knowledge and experience, we are developing a growing number of partnerships with professional Associate members who are able to provide specialist expertise in the following areas:

• Export Training & Market Access
• Logistics
  
• Exhibition Forwarding
• Chinese Certification and Inspection
• Legal advice
  
• Contract Packing
• Credit Risk
  
• Global Payments
• Halal Certification
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Kosher Certification
• Labelling
  
• Stickering
• PR & Marketing services
• Veterinary export health certification
• Supply Chain Management
• US Registration

Profiles and contact details of our current Associates are below If there are other areas of international trade where you would like some help, please let us know.

If you are a member and would like us to post you athe printed directory - please let us know.  Contact nicola@ukfdea.com

AFEX  - www.afex.com

Scarlett Evans - sevans@afex.com

Established in 1979 AFEX is a trusted global payment and risk management solutions specialist operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and in over 200 countries. As well as same day transfers AFEX offers a comprehensive range of currency risk management tools.

With offices throughout the America’s, Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe we work with each company individually to understand their specific motivations and ensure they achieve the most profitable outcome for their business.

Key benefits of our solutions include:

• A wealth of knowledge within the Global FX Market
• The ability to manage your FX risk on both sending and receiving foreign currency
• 24/7 access and online support to our market leading online platform, AFEXDirect, to help you manage your payments around the clock
• A diverse range of risk management tools, strategically tailored to suit your business
• Same day transfers and award winning straight through processing through our membership with the SWIFT network

Visit AFEX.com for further information.

Amivet Exports Ltd - www.amivetexports.co.uk
Andrew Iveson  - andrew@amivet.co.uk
Mob: 07765 642273 Tel:  01606 278707    

We are a leading provider of veterinary export health certification (EHC) for the worldwide export of food and animal products from the UK offering free advice to FDEA members

Our veterinary surgeons have vast experience in all aspects of the industry and we pride ourselves on providing a reliable, competitive and personalised service that tailors its service to meet each individual customer’s requirements.

We deal with all products including:

⦁ Dairy (milk, yogurt, cream, butter, whey, cooking sauces, baby food etc)
⦁ Meat (red and white meat and processed products)
⦁ Fish
⦁ Eggs
⦁ Gelatin and casings

From your initial enquiry, we can advise about the logistics of the export, including advice on and checking documents such as import permits, along with heat treatments, animal disease status and storage requirements.

We can help complete the application forms for APHA/DEFRA and visit your site, inspect the products and then sign and stamp the certificates.

We are proud of our record of proactively helping our customers export their goods into new markets.

Ark Halal Certification Authority Ltd - www.arkhalal.co.uk
Alfie M Said -   alfie@arkhalal.co.uk

We are offering a complimentary Halal assessment to members of UKFDEA.

ARK Halal Certification Authority Limited (AHCA) is a registered company in Leeds, United Kingdom. AHCA specialises in HALAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES, AUDITING, TRAINING and CERTIFICATION in the food manufacturing industry in Europe and other countries.

ARK is carefully structured with a strong and influential International Syariah Panel of experts from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and UK, complemented with a dynamic technical committee who are professionals in the field of SYARIAH FOOD LAW, FOOD TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICALS AND COSMETICS.

For the past 20 years, ARK members have provided consultancy, auditing and training to more than fifty (50) FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS, FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS, FOOD INGREDIENTS SUPPLIERS, IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS and ABBATOIRS.

With ARK representative offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, South Korea, UK and Germany, ARK works as an extended Halal Quality Assurance Department for these corporations, which are located across EUROPE, AUSTRALIA and SOUTHEAST ASIA, with some of them being among the biggest producers in the world.

Complimentary Halal Assessment:  aim to identify your company’s Halal competency level. This assessment is done through Desktop Auditing where we will go through your documents to check the details.

*Non-disclosure agreement will be signed for this purpose.

For more information, please contact :

Khalis Imran  -  khalis@arkhalal.uk  -  Mobile : +44 7467 7056 22 (UK)

Imran Musa  -  imran@arkincorporation.com  -  -Mobile : +65 8431 1377 (Singapore)

Ashbury Labelling - www.ashburylabelling.co.uk

Claudine Lefebvre  claudine.lefebvre@ashburylabelling.co.uk 

Ashbury Labelling is a leading provider of regulatory advice, artwork approval and specification services. We provide an integrated end-to-end process which delivers excellence at every stage, ensuring specifications, pack copy and labelling which are right first time.

We deliver thousands of multi-lingual approvals each year for clients across the food, drink and non-food industries. Our regulatory experts provide our services to retail, foodservice and manufacturing customers in over 80 countries and regions, including the EU, the Middle East and the Americas. We give you the clear, practical advice you need to ensure your products are correctly labelled in all of your prospective markets.

We aim to help you get your products legally compliant and on-shelf as quickly and painlessly as possible. In this spirit we have an FDEA rate card for referrals, so please contact us about your projects to see what discounts we can arrange.

CCIC London - www.cciclondon.com
Ariel Leng  market2@cciclondon.com
Tel: 020 8445 3209

CCIC London Company Limited has a professional team of food experts, who are committed to providing inspection, testing, certification, consultation as well as training services for UK and Irish food manufacturers and distributors, our services are listed as below:

1. China organic certification
   
2. Food labelling consultancy
   
3. Food and drink product traceability
   
4. Manufacturer registration with CNCA consultation
   
5. Infant formula registration with CFDA consultation
   
6. Food and drink factory audit (China HACCP certification)
   
7. Food and drink Pre-shipment inspection (Chinese port convenient customs clearance)
   

Credit Risk Solutions- www.creditrisksolutions.com
Mark Whiteley m.whiteley@creditrisksolutions.com
Tel: 01422 368866

Specialist Credit Insurance Broker. We negotiate and place cover for food and drink companies who have potential exposure to customer failure/non-payment.

CRS has developed a significant involvement in this sector. Exposures range from the major low risk food retailers to highly leveraged hotels, manufacturing and distribution companies, restaurant chains and foodservice companies.

The listening and learning process is essential. Understanding your business issues and asking better questions will enable us to deliver better answers from credit insurers.

We pride ourselves on making what we believe to be the best submissions in the market - giving underwriters all the information they need. This process is not undertaken at arms length - we meet with, discuss and persuade underwriters to offer the most favourable terms. The process is about creating market appetite - achieving long term solutions for our clients and our underwriters.

Once we have negotiated a credit insurance facility we'll regularly meet with you to discuss all your issues. We believe in partnership and total transparency with our clients and we also welcome feedback. Every year you will receive a questionnaire asking you to rate both CRS and your Underwriter on service levels.

Drac Logisitics - www.draclogistics.co.uk

Clive Hughes - clive.huges@draclogistics.co.uk

With Headquarters in the UK at Stone, Staffordshire and our offices in Manchester, Birmingham, and Falkirk Scotland Drac provides freight forwarding and logistics services worldwide and has expanded its services to meet the ever changing demands of Global Logistics.

• Our expertise provides our clients with a seamless transportation chain from factory to consumer, covering the whole spectrum of logistics services.
  
• We provide port to port freight forwarding movements through to complex supply chain solutions.
  
• We provide freight management services to a range of industries, including strategic partnerships to the world’s most successful companies.
  
• We offer reduced lead times, meeting the specific requirements of our client base.
  
• We deploy advanced I.T. solutions offering a Global Track and Trace service (Drack Tracks), with direct links with customer’s proprietary systems
  
• Drac offers a supply chain management service to its clients, which would begin with a supply chain audit.
  
• The audit itself would commence with a supply chain review, which is fundamental to gaining a full understanding of both your business and its logistics requirements.
  
• Purchase order and distribution order data would be fed our supply chain modelling tools.
  
• The outcome of the audit would be focused on:
  
• Network designs to optimise your distribution channels
  
• Process map to eliminate non value-added tasks
  
• Information management integration to remove process duplication and bridge information gaps
  

Following on from the initial audit and implementation of identified improvements, further supply chain reviews would be arranged on an agreed schedule, to ensure changing requirements are efficiently and effectively met.

Evolve Pack - www.contractpacking.co.uk
 Ellis Eyley, Business Development Manager, ellis@evolvepack.co.uk
Joanne Gill, Commercial Manager, joanne@evolvepack.co.uk

Tel: 01530 444 241

With over 20 years industry experience Evolve Pack are a dependable and efficient Contract Packing, Storage and Distribution company facilitating complex, fast reacting packing programmes worked to the highest BRC and SEDEX standards.

We offer a catalogue of services including both manual and automated packing.

Our machinery includes Flow Wrappers, Carton machines, Shrink Wrappers and Heat Sealers and we have facility to in-line date code on these lines.

Our extensive workforce is highly skilled in Labelling, assemble FSDU’s and Aisle Displays, Gift Packing, Re-Work, Fault Checking and Order Picking. With our inhouse recruitment team, we do not rely on a third-party agency for our staff. This results in a very high level of capacity and with a 24/7 service over three shifts, gives Evolve Pack a huge amount of flexibility and reduces our turnaround times significantly.

In addition to manual and automated packing, we offer more traditional warehouse services including Container Decanting, Storage and Distribution.

From one off projects to ongoing requirements, large volume FMCG products to delicate low volume runs, here at Evolve Pack we work together to enable you to become the best in your field.

To find out more information about how we can help your company, please contact us on 01530 444 241, email enquiries@evolvepack.co.uk or visit our website www.contractpacking.co.uk

Food & Drink Exportese Ltd - www.foodanddrinkexportese.co.uk

Nicola Thomas - nicola@foodanddrinkexportese.co.uk
Tel: 07771 655884

Are you an experienced exporter, a reactive exporter or new to exporting?  Here’s How Exportese Can Help you

Our support programme packages address the needs of all levels of exporters from our Springboard to Export and Export Bootcamp programmes through to Market Selection and Overseas Partner Finder.

• We have vast experience of supporting food and drink companies to identify, enter and build sales in overseas markets.
  
• We focus on giving you practical help to get results much quicker and more effectively than by yourself.
  
• We have a unique global “ big black book” of commercial contacts: distributors, end customers and service providers.
  

GBH Exhibition Forwarding - www.gbhforwarding.com
Mark Saxton - mark@gbhforwarding.com
Tel:  0114 2690641

We provide companies of all sizes with a variety of services relating to the transportation and handling of cargo destined for exhibitions, trade shows and events. With dedicated staff and a network of like minded partners around the world, we aim to help you dedicate more time to the prime purpose of your investment - increasing your company profile and sales.

Our company offers a virtually unlimited list of capabilities because of our vast corporate networking. Within our alliance are companies of all sizes. When it comes to our business, we offer our customers a powerful resource and a recipe for success. Listed below is a comprehensive list of services we offer our clients. Please contact us if you would like more information.

• Domestic haulage
  
• Groupage road freight
  
• Part-Load road freight  ;  Full-Load road freight
• LCL Sea freight  ;  FCL Sea freight  ;  Air freight
• Transit insurance
  
• Customs clearance
  
• Documentation
  
• On-site unloading and loading operations
  
• Removal, storage and return of empty packing materials
  
• Storage of packaged goods
  
• Packaging services
  

Gill Jennings & Every LLP - www.gje.com
Rowena Price Rowena.price@gje.com
Tel:   +44 (0)20 7655 8500 

GJE is a leading firm of intellectual property attorneys with a specialist food & drink sector team.

We help our food & drink clients capitalise on and de-risk the significant and growing opportunities afforded by the export market sector, by protecting their names, logos, packaging and inventions.

Our patent attorneys are very familiar with all the important manufacturing and processing technologies used in the food & drink sector and are highly experienced in protecting innovation, ranging from the development of new product formulations through to the use of smart technologies to prevent tampering and the detection of counterfeiting.

Our trade mark attorneys work with a wide range of food & drink clients, from major food manufacturers withlarge portfolios of leading brands, through to start-ups such as micro-brewers and niche confectionery manufacturers. Our trade mark services include brand protection around the world, clearance of new brands/markets, enforcement, infringement and passing off advice, oppositions, portfolio management and audits, domain name disputes and assistance with other online- issues. We help our clients develop tailored IP strategies for both Europe and overseas that support their export plans, maximising commercial opportunities while minimising the risk of litigation. For brand owners this includes working with Customs and other agencies on behalf of our clients to identify the sale of fake goods, whether online or through other channels.

We have developed a range of consultancy services to help capture innovation and protect our client’s inventions and brands. These include our Innovation Capture Sessions, where we ensure all details of the innovation are correctly recorded and mapped to the product and Brand Health Checks, both of which have proved to be extremely valuable strategic tools and which genuinely help budgets work harder and smarter.

We welcome enquiries and will be delighted to explain in more detail why you should consider GJE for your IP needs

KLBD Kosher - www.klbdkosher.org
Sharon Feldman-Vazan   sharonfv@klbdkosher.org
Tel:07956 563778

See KLBD's advice to members by clicking here

KLBD Kosher is one of the world leading kosher certification agencies operating around the globe and certifying many of the known food brands and raw material manufacturers. KLBD work with companies big and small and are committed to offering a professional and affordable kosher certification service.

Many of these companies we certify are already directly and successfully exporting to Europe, the USA and Israel with their KLBD kosher certification.

Our certification is respected and recognised worldwide. Indeed working with KLBD you will find that we have a professional approach to the process of kosher certification and have a pragmatic approach to problem solving. Some other agencies can present certain challenges.

Retail product certified companies include:

Mars, Twinings, Drambuie, Glenrothes, Weetabix, Dorset Cereals, McCains, Tate & Lyle and Unilever.

Ingredients certified companies include:

RC Treatt, Givaudan, Akzo Nobel, Arla, National Starch, Ineos, Glanbia, Kerry, Indena, and Tatura

We also work closely with the companies we certify to help them make the most of their kosher certification. This extra service is at no extra charge and is included in the price of the certification. Please contact us if you would like to hear more about this kosher certification.

15% discount for all FDEA members against their first year’s fee.

Langton London Insurance Brokers Ltd - www.langtonlondoninsurancebrokers.co.uk
Eddie Ferrao - eddie.ferrao@langtonlondon.co.uk

Tel: 01737 305661

The Food and Drink sector is a complex area with many factors to consider. Therefore, your insurance needs are equally complex, with a need to protect the business, brand, staff and customers.

At Langton London we are the Associated member of the FDEA – Food & Drink Exporters Association. Our team of commercial insurance advisers understand the issues faced working within the Food and Drink industry and will ensure the policies recommended include risks associated which can include cold stores, food processing, cooking risks and much more.

When can offer the following covers:

• Product Recall
  
• Marine (Goods in Transit Worldwide) including by Sea, Road or Air and Stock Through Put
  
• Public/ Products Liability
  
• Employment Liability
  
• Motor Fleet
  
• Property Including Warehousing
  
• Professional Indemnity
  

Discounted business Insurance via A Rated insurers for all FDEA members

Pelican Communications - www.pelicancommunications.co.uk
Michael Bennett – Michael.bennett@pelicomms.co.uk

Tel: 01457 820 807

We help organisations succeed by delivering strategic marketing and PR campaigns that make a measurable commercial difference. We are expert communicators, committed to being specialists in our chosen markets: food, foodservice, packaging & food production. Our ethos is “Driving Brilliant Results” so our programmes are based on an in-depth understanding of your business and market. Our services include brand management, content creation, design, social and digital, event management, media relations, people development and corporate comms.

If you are looking for a consultancy with energy and fresh ideas, who will deliver on time and on budget, please give our food communications team a call.

Registrar Corp - www.registrarcorp.com
Coley Anderson – canderson@registrarcorp.com

Registrar Corp assists UK exporters to comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations for exporting food and beverages to the United States. We register facilities with FDA and renew registrations biennially as required. We submit Prior Notice to FDA [required for every food and beverage shipment). We act as a facility's U.S, Agent. Registrar Corp reviews food labels and ingredients for FDA compliance as well as submit Process Filings to FDA for low acid and acidified foods. Our Food Safety team develops or reviews HACCP, Food Safety, and Food Defence Plans. The Food Safety team also conducts mock FDA inspections to help facilities prepare. Registrar Corp's FDA Compliance Monitor allows users to monitor their own facility and those of their suppliers for FDA compliance issues, such as Import Alerts, Warning Letters, Import Refusals, and Inspection Classifications. Registrar Corp assists with detentions and helps facilities petition for removal from an FDA Import Alert.

Unique Member Offer (include any terms & conditions) Free 1 Year Trial of the FDA Compliance Monitor (Self_Monitoring )

24-Hour Live Chat: www.registrarcorp.com/live help

Roythornes Solicitors - www.roythornes.co.uk