Digital School of Food

Digital School of Food

Digital School of Food

Digital School of Food is a free to use learning hub that has been designed to support food manufacturing businesses from start-up to the growth phase.

For further information and to access this online course - please click here.

Course Breakdown

The Digital School of Food material is broken into 6 themes, each containing 2 to 3 courses.

Theme 1: Plan Your Journey
  • Do your research
  • Create your business model
  • Create your brand
  • Mentor tips on doing your research and creating a brand
Theme 2: Route To Market
  • Identify your sales channel
  • Distribute your product
  • Explore direct selling
  • Mentor tips on where to sell your product
Theme 3: Think About Finance
  • Get your costing right
  • Have enough funds
  • Think about central billing
  • Mentor tips on product costings and funding
Theme 4: Grow Your Sales
  • Selling to store owners and chefs
  • Understand key account management
  • Perfect your negotiation skills
  • Mentor tips on meeting store owners, chefs and buyers
Theme 5: Expand Your Business
  • Managing product development
  • Scaling your business
  • Mentor tips on product development and scaling up your business
Theme 6: Support From Experts
  • Hear from Local Enterprise Office, Bord Bia, The Food Safety Authority and Enterprise Ireland

The Digital School of Food is an initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices and supported by: Bord Bia, DIT and Enterprise Ireland