Fragmentation within the Bakery, Dairy and Meat sectors across Europe often results in Traditional Food Producers (TFPs) being less competitive than they might otherwise be, discourages collaboration, can make getting business funding difficult and diminishes opportunities for sales and marketing.

TRADEIT is currently identifying and prioritising future research activities relevant to Traditional Food Producing (TFP) SMEs in the Dairy, Meat and Bakery sectors to promote research development and innovation  (RDI) within TFP enterprises.

TRADEIT will offer a 3-day intensive entrepreneurial training program to Post Graduate Food Researchers and Research Centre Managers on June 15th – 18th, 2014 in Tralee, Ireland.  The participants will be afforded the opportunity to consider setting up their own business and/or leading innovative solutions for an existing Traditional Food SME.

“In a small organization flexibility and adaptability are essential for survival in today’s marketplace” Mikko Sairanen, Managing director of Maitomaa.

Company history
Maitomaa, now one of the oldest co-operatives in Finland was founded in 1915 by a group of milk producers driven by the need to have a single location for milk processing and diary produce manufacture.