The international market for organic food and beverages continues to grow quickly. The consumers that choose organic food are particular about their food, but also prepared to pay more. There are opportunities for all kinds of producers in this market, and Finnish products appear to have clear advantages.
Food From Finland together with Ruokavirasto invites you to a day of training and coaching, which will put you in a position to decide if and how to start selling your products on over seas markets. The organic coaching day is customized to small and medium-sized enterprises that have capacity to increase their organic volumes or need to find markets that offer better prices for their organic products.
The organic coaching day will be focusing near by opportunities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. You will be provided with relevant market information and consumer demands, as well as what regulatory and voluntary requirements you will need to meet. You will be introduced to the distribution channels and market structures of each of these markets. You will also be introduced to the support available from Finnish authorities.
The second half of the day is dedicated to half hour one-to-one coaching where a senior consultant will assist a limited number of companies in assessing the opportunities and designing the first steps of an action plan to get started. If you are interested in individual coaching, simply indicate this in the registration form. Business Finland will organize the coaching sessions and we will provide details on exact time of your coaching ahead of the training day.
The organic training and coaching day is led by Mr Johan Cejie, founder of Moreganic Sourcing AB, which is a company that has specialized in supporting businesses in export and import of organic products.