Restaurant’s sister title Food Manufacture is searching for five of the UK’s most exciting food and drink start-ups to take to the stage and pitch their products, ingredients or technologies live at Food Manufacture 360.
The Pitch Deck is a brand-new competition created to showcase the sector’s most innovative challenger brands and emerging businesses.
Finalists will have the opportunity to present directly to a panel of industry judges and in front of a live audience of food and drink manufacturing professionals, while competing for a prize package worth £13,450.
Each shortlisted business will deliver a quick-fire pitch outlining its innovation, commercial potential and industry impact. Judges will then put finalists through their paces with a Q&A session, offering valuable feedback and insight from across the food and drink sector.
The overall winner will be crowned at the event.
For more information, including eligibility criteria (also see below), and to enter The Pitch Deck competition, click here.
What’s included?
If selected as a finalist, you will receive:
Free entry to the competition
Complimentary attendance at Food Manufacture 360 for shortlisted finalists
Exposure to senior manufacturers, retailers, investors and industry decisionmakers
Expert feedback from an experienced judging panel
The deadline for entries is 1 December 2026. To enter, your business must be based in the UK or actively trading in the UK, have been founded within the last 10 years, employ fewer than 250 people, and be independently owned.