Meet The Buyer: Mahalo

About the event

Our Meet the Buyer sessions connect exciting up-and-coming food and drink brands with the buying teams at the UK's leading retailers and food service operator. They help challenger brands build their network, secure listings and get insider insight into the UK food and drink landscape.

These sessions offer a unique opportunity to secure sales, get invaluable feedback and build your professional network. They are only open to Mission Kitchen members.

Our Meet the Buyer sessions connect exciting up-and-coming food and drink brands with the buying teams at the UK's leading retailers and food service operator. They help challenger brands build their network, secure listings and get insider insight into the UK food and drink landscape.

These sessions offer a unique opportunity to secure sales, get invaluable feedback and build your professional network. They are only open to Mission Kitchen members.

In this session, we welcome Mahalo | mahalosupplies.com

This is the first Meet The Buyer sessions we have hosted with a distributor, and is a fantastic opportunity to find out more about how working with a distributor could help your brand grow.


About Mahalo
Mahalo is a speciality wholesaler supplying over 650 farm shops, delis, garden centres and cafes nationwide as well as beacon retailers such as Selfridges, Harrods, Fenwick, Harvey Nichols and Ocado. They expect to work closely with their suppliers and specialise in working with small batch, emerging brands. Often, they are a producer's first wholesaler relationship and provide mentoring and additional support as they scale. They also have a proactive sales team who work on championing their brands to their existing customer portfolio as well as acquiring new accounts.

The Brief:

  • Mahalo is interested in meeting emerging brands creating high quality, artisanal products of all kinds.
  • Primarily they work with ambient lines but they do work closely on a dropship basis with a limited number of chilled suppliers.
  • They do not have accreditation requirements, and have a very open brief as they are keen to meet and speak with as many exciting up-and-coming brands as possible.

About the Event:

If you are selected to take part, you will be given a 15 minute slot to meet with the buying team, present your product and answer questions.

Following the event, Mission Kitchen will provide feedback from the buying team, and if they are keen to progress a commercial conversation you will be put in touch directly.

Requirements:

  • Be a member of the Mission Kitchen Network
  • Register for this event and provide the necessary application information
  • Be available to attend an in-person meeting at Mission Kitchen during the specified event time.
  • Come to your meeting prepared to pitch, with product samples and information on pricing, MOQs, and all other commercial requirements.

Applications for this session will close on Tuesday 13th August at 5pm. If you are selected, we will contact you by Thursday 15th August to confirm a time slot and clarify any specific requirements.

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Date and time

August 22, 2024 2:00 PM

Address

Mission Kitchen

Ticket price

Free

Mission Kitchen Members Only