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Join us for our 2023 Williamson Walkabout trade event!

The “Williamson Walkabout” event returns! A major trade show event held at the Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness on Wednesday 15th March 2023. You have the opportunity to meet some of our staff and over 60 of our key suppliers. In addition, you can mingle with others from the Highlands tourism and food and drink sector. It is our largest and most ambitious trade event to date!

Williamson Foodservice will be offering EXCLUSIVE SHOW-ONLY DEALS available only to those attending in person. Doors open at 10:30am and stay open until 4:00pm! It’s a great chance to stock up before the 2023 season gets properly underway. Booking takes just a couple of minutes, so don’t delay, call us on 0345 450 8888 for further information or book now using this link.

Generate more profit

Suppliers and staff attending the show will be on hand to offer tastings, answer your queries and demonstrate how you can make better profit from products featured. The event is likely to be of interest to your buying staff including owners, chefs, restaurant managers, bar staff and those in charge of cleaning supplies, so please register relevant personnel. We encourage you to limit staff to 2 per business/establishment but get in touch on 0345 450 8888 if you think you may need more and we will try our best to accommodate you.

You can meet the Williamson Foodservice team as they escort you round the show and demonstrate our ever expanding range at first hand as well as meet some of the team who look after your orders. As the Highland’s premier supplier of fresh and chilled foods to the hospitality and retail trades, we work hard on finding products that will allow you to achieve your range, menu and margin goals. These include:

Artisan cheese & dairy  |  Craft beers & fine wines  |  Premium soft drinks  |  Hand baked bread & cakes  |  Scottish Fish & Seafood  |  Tasty fruit & vegetables  | 
Selected spice, pulses & oats  |  Essential kitchen supplies  |  Quality catering ingredients  |  Seasonal produce  |  Great value cleaning supplies  |

Highland Hospitality at its best

Hot food and refreshments will be available throughout the day and a meeting area will provide an opportunity to sit down with our staff as well as others in the industry to discuss the opportunities for the season ahead. We will also have free Wi-Fi available across the show should you need to keep in touch with emails, etc.

We look forward to welcoming you and your key staff on Wednesday 15th March 2023 but we ask that you take a moment to secure your place(s) by pre-registering yourself and your staff for the event using Eventbrite.

Registering now means we will update you on the run up to the event, by email, details of the companies attending, show offers and other specifics such as parking arrangements, etc. Please share vehicles and transport as much as possible. It saves costs and protects the environment!

If you are pre-registering for yourself and others, please take a moment to give us all names and titles so that we can ensure your delegate pack, the all important goody bag and show catalogue can be ready for you when you arrive. If you have any queries in the meantime, please call us on 0345 450 8888.

Registration is available via Eventbrite

Some of the companies you will meet at the event:

Soft drinks, beverages, snacks
Barr Soft Drinks - Simply Fruity, Rubicon, Bundaberg
Deeside Water - made from natural springs in the Cairngorms
Franklin & Sons soft drinks and mixers
Inverness Coffee Roasting - Ground and bean coffee in hospitality and retail sizes
Radnor Hills - Still and flavoured, school compliant water
Salty Dog crisps - feisty seasonings and great packaging
Darling Spuds Crisps - hand cooked and attractive packaging
Pringle Crisps - brand leader
RAW Culture Kombucha - Brewed in Aberdeen, 4 great flavours in cans
Summerhouse Drinks - Artisan Aberdeenshire drinks
Walter Gregor’s Tonic - tasty, local, artisan, great story
Craft Beers, Gin, Cider & Wine
Dedicated Crown Cellars Wine Sampling - great value, wide range, expert help
Scottish Spirits Bar - 12 distillers represented - whisky, gin, vodka, rum
Cairngorm Brewery - solid performing craft beer of the Cairngorms
Loch Ness Brewery - iconic beer for an iconic location
Cairn o'Mohr Scottish Wines - made in Perthshire from the freshest ingredients
Dunnet Bay Distillers - range of Rock Rose products
Isle of Skye Brewing Co - the beer of Skye!
Feragaia Zero Alcohol Spirit - vegan, low calorie, gluten free
Orkney Brewery - quality ales with great stories
Black Isle Brewery - Organic beers with great names
Windswept Brewing - best when you've earned it - craft beer from Lossiemouth
WooHa Brewing Company - brewed in the Highlands with a contemporary look
MYXD Cocktails - ready made for hospitality and retail alike
71 Brewing - a fantastic taste and in attractive 440ml cans
Thistly Cross Cider & Paolozzi Craft Beer - the cider of Scotland and a new craft beer option from the Edinburgh Beer Co
Artisan Cheese
Carron Lodge – UK and continental cheese
Highland Fine Cheeses - Quality soft and hard cheeses made in Tain
Isle of Kintyre Cheese - Truckle flavours ideal for hospitality and retail
The Island Smokery - A taste of Orkney with flavoured and smoked cheese a speciality
Foods
Dedicated CORE product range - cakes, cooking wines, coffee, bacon, tins, mayo, oils & vinegars
Dedicated fish, seafood, venison range - Scrabster Seafoods, Ardgay Game
Blackthorn Salt - Innovative salt production from Ayrshire
Brigston - artisan hot dogs with bags of flavour
Brown's Food Group - selected, high quality cold meats
Murdoch Brothers - butchers, pies, ready meals - ideal for retail. Wide range.
Drystore
Cullisse - rapeseed oil. Local tasty and lots of flavour options
Great Glen Charcuterie - artisan producer of wild venison charcuterie
Gordon & Durward Traditional Scottish Sweets & Fudge
Kellogg's Cereals - classic cereal range from market leaders
Kindness Bakery - Great Taste producer of quality oatcakes
MOMA Oat Milk - The Craft Oat Co with oat milk and porridge pots
Nippon Shokken - tempura batter mix, teriyaki sauce
Peck & Strong Cakes - high quality cakes and tray bakes
Praveen Kumar - delicious frozen Indian ready meals
Rora Dairy - Aberdeenshire yogurt
Scotch & Co - Scotch pies and sausage rolls
Stag Bakery - traditional recipes for oatcakes, crackers and biscuits
Unilever Food Solutions – Knorr pasta, bouillons and GRAZE snacks
Other Misc Suppliers
CORE Cleaning - comprehensive range of cleaning products