Cider company secures export contracts
Somerset cider makers, including Sheppy's of Bradford-on-Tone, secured overseas contracts with export advice from government teams.
Somerset 3D's news list carried a short item on a cider company winning export contracts. Contemporary local reporting fits Sheppy's Cider of Bradford-on-Tone, the sixth-generation producer which said it had secured six new international contracts and was selling in about ten countries. Estonia was among the new markets, and India followed, with practical help from the Department for International Trade and the Food is GREAT campaign.
Sheppy's was not an isolated case. Thatchers, at Myrtle Farm, has exported for years and has signed long-running overseas distribution agreements. Together they illustrate the point Somerset 3D made about food and drink: the county's producers are large enough, and distinctive enough, to sell beyond the South West.
Export support is still available through the Department for Business and Trade, but contracts from 2018 are history. If you make food or drink and you are choosing a site in Somerset, we can talk about premises, cold storage and who to ask about current export advice.