Meet The Buyer: Mercato Battersea

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 Mercato Battersea

About Mercato Battersea:

Mercato Battersea has opened this summer as the first public retail concept in the history of New Covent Garden Market — London's principal food supply market for over half a century, feeding the capital's finest Michelin-starred kitchens, restaurants, private members' clubs and hotels. Every Saturday, 9am-1pm, it opens its doors to the local community as a new kind of food destination.

Mercato Battersea is hand-selecting a curated community of producers whose work reflects the market's standards: real ingredients, ethical production, and outstanding flavour, story and integrity.

What it offers: access to an affluent, food-literate audience already returning week after week, association with New Covent Garden Market's reputation, and a place within a producer community shaping the market's future together.

The Brief:

Mercato Battersea are looking for products under the following categories:

- Condiments
- Baked Goods & Confectionary
- Spreads & Nut Butters
- Drinks
- Ice Cream

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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 availabe 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.

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