Award winning Food and Beverage Innovation Centre.
Let’s bring your food or beverage idea to life.
At FoodBuzz, we are a team of seasoned product developers specializing in crafting innovative food and drink products.
Whether you’re an early-stage startup, a growing brand, or a well-established business, we can take your product from concept to commercialization, ensuring a successful market launch.
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Our Development Centre
Our Development Centre
Innovative Concept Development Lab
Our concept development lab is fully equipped with an extensive range of ingredients and state-of-the-art tools to work on development projects for soft drinks, alcohol-based beverages, and powder blends. We offer laboratory-scale testing (1-3 liters or kilograms), enabling you to create prototypes with confidence. These small-scale trials provide you with the foundational insights needed to transition smoothly into the scale-up phase.
Commercial Laboratory and Pilot Testing
In our commercial laboratory, we conduct pilot testing for your products under UHT conditions, can sterilization, and small-scale contract packing for carbonated cans and bottles. Located in Shepton Mallet at the Rural Enterprise Centre, Royal Bath & West Showground, our facilities are easily accessible with excellent motorway connections and direct railway links from London.
Our concept development lab is fully equipped with an extensive range of ingredients and state-of-the-art tools to work on development projects for soft drinks, alcohol-based beverages, and powder blends. We offer laboratory-scale testing (1-3 liters or kilograms), enabling you to create prototypes with confidence. These small-scale trials provide you with the foundational insights needed to transition smoothly into the scale-up phase.
Commercial Laboratory and Pilot Testing
In our commercial laboratory, we conduct pilot testing for your products under UHT conditions, can sterilization, and small-scale contract packing for carbonated cans and bottles. Located in Shepton Mallet at the Rural Enterprise Centre, Royal Bath & West Showground, our facilities are easily accessible with excellent motorway connections and direct railway links from London.
What We Do
What We Do
Product Development and Commercialization Services
At FoodBuzz, we provide a comprehensive suite of services to bring your food and beverage ideas to life. From sourcing premium ingredients to guiding, you through factory trials, our expertise ensures your product is market-ready and scalable.
Scaling Up
Scaling Up
From Factory Trials to Commercial Launch
We assist in identifying the right contract packers tailored to your preferred packaging format. With a network of trusted partners across the UK and Europe, we facilitate trials on a pilot scale and support small-scale manufacturing before scaling up to larger volumes as your brand grows.
Our in-house co-packing services include small-scale canning and bottling, while large-scale commercial production is handled by our carefully vetted third-party contract packing providers. This collaborative approach ensures your product receives the best service at every stage, from concept to finished product.
UHT Ambient Dairy or Plant Based Drinks
Your Dream Team
Your Dream Team
Who We Are
With a combined 55 years of experience in the food and beverage manufacturing industry, our team of food scientists possesses unparalleled technical expertise and quality insight. Drawing on our backgrounds in product manufacturing, we understand the complexities and risks of scaling up. From troubleshooting to risk mitigation, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
Our proven track record in creativity, deep knowledge of ingredients and suppliers, and practical approach enable us to deliver an efficient service, helping you launch commercially viable products that stand out in the market.
With a combined 55 years of experience in the food and beverage manufacturing industry, our team of food scientists possesses unparalleled technical expertise and quality insight. Drawing on our backgrounds in product manufacturing, we understand the complexities and risks of scaling up. From troubleshooting to risk mitigation, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
Our proven track record in creativity, deep knowledge of ingredients and suppliers, and practical approach enable us to deliver an efficient service, helping you launch commercially viable products that stand out in the market.
Meet the Team
We’re here to help you!
We’re here to help you!
Sharon Harvey
Director
Over 35 years’ experience in product development and technical management working for manufacturers, including Mondelez, 2Sisters, Lyons Seafood, Tulip and Framptons amongst others. Development leadership and project management provided for all sizes of customers, food service companies and UK retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Co-op. Categories include RTE chilled and frozen, dairy and plant-based beverages, allergen-free, raw and cooked meat, cooked seafood, party food and snacking.
Shimantini Banerjee
Founder
A creative and knowledgeable Product Development Technologist with over 10 years’ experience and MSC Food Science. Experienced in taking products from concept to launch, with a strong focus on science-based application to create, scale-up and launch technically sound and commercially successful products. Product categories include innovative drink mixers, non-alcoholic drinks, dairy, dairy-free/dairy alternatives, fruit juices/smoothies, sauces, chutneys, dressings and mayonnaise in both chilled and ambient formats as well as soups, sandwich fillings and liquid and frozen egg products.
Matt Wolf
Founder
A Product and Process Development Technologist. Over 7 years’ experience in production line development, processing improvement and product development; BSc in Food Engineering, Human Nutrition and Food Science taking. Proven success in taking products from concept to launch with a strong problem-solving approach. Product categories include dairy (butter, cheese, cream, whey, protein concentrates, etc) and powdered blends, dairy-free/dairy alternative drinks, meal replacement drinks, protein drinks, cold brew coffee and coffee drinks, fruit juices/smoothies in both chilled and ambient formats as well as liquid and frozen egg products.
Nicholas Henson FIFST
Business Associate
Nick has extensive experience in food, beverage and supplement NPD for over 35 years and he brings with him, a broad cross-category expertise with focus on nutrition, health and well-being. He helps brands with guidance on feasibility and viability of ideas and concepts, covering sensory, nutrition, safety, stability, processing, and legal aspects related to nutrition and health claims. Nick’s areas of expertise also include identifying key risks and challenges in the development process and areas of focus for resource and investment as well as preparation and management of NPD project plans.
Sally Brock
Technologist
Has over 10 years’ experience working as a Product Development Technologist working with savoury, dry ingredients, chilled yogurts & desserts, ice-creams & sorbets and soft drinks. Successfully managed the development of branded products from concept through to launch working with all the UK major retailers.
Clients
Clients
Our Work
Who trusted us?
Numbers
Numbers
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Feedback
What Our Clients Say
That’s why we’re so proud of our work.
The Food Buzz team have been incredible to work with They have a methodical approach in taking the initial brief to make the recipes. They are agile, supportive and have a clear process for the development work. During the development process we worked very closely with them in creating several iterations, incorporating the feedback from each round of submissions to improve the recipes to our liking. They are great to work with and we look forward to working with them again!
Mighty Drinks
We had the pleasure of working with FoodBuzz when we wanted to improve the nutritional profile and devise new flavours for our seed snacks. We gave FoodBuzz a very difficult and challenging brief but nothing was too much trouble and they could not have been more helpful. As an added bonus they are a lovely team and it was a pleasure to spend the day with them working on the recipes. A real gem.
Pep&Lekker
We had a lovely day with FoodBuzz consulting helping to develop and refine our blends, they were very knowledgeable and it proved to be a very useful day for us. We trialled a variety of new formulas for our blends using their methods & system of refinement, with a tidy write up/spreadsheet to help.
London Nootropics
Working with FoodBuzz has been a great experience. Team has helped me develop the beverage I envisioned smoothly. They have extensive experience in the industry and has helped us from ingredient sourcing, recipe development, to finding a suitable manufacturer. It was a pleasure working with FoodBuzz.
KayTea
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