Initiatives launched to help local F&B firms innovate and take wing overseas

Singapore

SEVERAL initiatives to help local food manufacturers innovate and expand overseas were unveiled on Tuesday by Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koon.

The first is a website developed by the Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) and Innovative Hub to bring the Singapore Pavilion at industry trade show Food & Hotel Asia 2018 (FHA 2018) to the Alibaba portal, and to help connect local businesses and overseas buyers beyond FHA 2018.

The second is the launch of the SMF SMART app, an online business-to-business (B2B) platform developed by SMF and technology company i-Sprint Innovations. The app consolidates orders for overseas buyers and has features like traceability and authentication of products through …