The British Feeding and Drinking Group Annual Meeting 50th Anniversary 23 – 24 April 2026

Sponsors

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $94 billion in net revenue in 2025, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

The Ajinomoto Group, a Japanese multinational founded in 1909, is a pioneer in the discovery of umami—the fifth taste—by Professor Kikunae Ikeda, who identified glutamate as its source. Leveraging its cutting-edge bioscience and fine chemical technologies, the company specialises in food and amino acids, contributing to global nutrition and health under its mission, “Eat Well, Live Well.” Operating in 34 countries with 116 plants, Ajinomoto applies “AminoScience” to enhance well-being worldwide, integrating tradition with innovation. For more information, visit Ajinomoto’s official website.

Consumer Lab is one of six innovation hubs – part of the Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club. The Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club was established in 2022 to support strategic, collaborative research and development between businesses and academic researchers together with other users of research, policy makers and wider stakeholders. Consumer Lab has received funding to operate for five years from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with support from DEFRA, Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Consumer Lab’s vision is to develop a distributed UK-wide ‘Consumer Lab’ (a network of industry and academic members) that improves the ‘ecological validity’ of academic research by studying real-world food choices and forges academic-industry collaborations that focus on ways to assess and understand everyday dietary behaviours.

For more information, visit Consumer Lab’s official website.

Tate & Lyle partners with food and drink companies to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. Supported by 165-year history of ingredient innovation, the company provides leading expertise in sweetening, mouthfeel and fortification, developing ingredients and solutions that reduce sugar, calories and fat, add fibre and protein, and provide texture and stability.

Science, Solutions, Society is Tate & Lyle’s brand promise and how it will achieve its purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. The company recognises that society must keep building its collective understanding of nutrition and food science to inform the future development of our food system. In that spirit, Tate & Lyle is proud to partner with expert institutions to drive advancements in the field of nutrition science through its active nutrition research programme, while supporting forums and partnerships that foster collaboration and robust science that provides solutions to the world’s challenges.

For more information, visit Nutrition Centre | Tate & Lyle.