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The total UK food industry is a vital employer comprising many different roles and specialities.

It provides more than 3.5m jobs – that's 13% of UK employment, or one in every seven jobs. In farming alone, there are around 327,000 farm businesses in the UK, providing 535,000 workforce jobs. And our workforce is highly skilled.

Labour productivity in UK food & drink manufacturing, measured in terms of output per hour, has risen 34% over the last 10 years vs 14% for the economy as a whole.
 

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* Getting the Right Mix
Getting the Right Mix
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The food & grocery industry is facing a series of economic, environmental and social challenges. In this free download, we discuss how to solve these new challenges and how getting the right mix of skills and motivation in our people is so important.
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* Food and Grocery Skills and Employability Summit Report
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Concerned at high levels of youth unemployment and driven by the desire to recruit capable people, now and in the future, the food and grocery industry launched, under the auspices of IGD, an Employability Pledge last November. This commits the industry to build on a range of activities that will help thousands of people develop skills and experience. IGD hosted a Skills and Employability Summit on June 22nd which brought together companies from across the food and grocery supply chain, Government and other key stakeholders to showcase existing initiatives, share emerging best practice, identify sources of practical help and guidance and to agree priority actions for the future. Read more here…
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* Offering workshops, in-house training and personal development, The IGD Academy is the centre of excellence for learning and development for the food & grocery industry. *
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* Skills Summit 2012 *
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* Book now for this free event on 13th June focusing on how the food & grocery industry is creating local opportunities and developing a strong skills base for the future. Speakers include Tesco, Asda, P&G and DHL. *
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