Apprenticeships: a ladder to career success - Robbie Hughan
To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week from 2 to 6 March, we are highlighting the journeys of six former apprentices who have built remarkable paths in the food & drink sector. Here we speak to Robbie Hughan, Assessor, Craft Skills Scotland.
Apprenticeships: a ladder to career success - Gordon Newlands
To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week from 2 to 6 March, we are highlighting the journeys of six former apprentices who have built remarkable paths in the food & drink sector. Here we speak to Gordon Newlands, Brand Development Manager, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS)
Apprenticeships: a ladder to career success - Victor West
To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week from 2 to 6 March, we are highlighting the journeys of six former apprentices who have built remarkable paths in the food & drink sector. Here we speak to Victor West, CEO of Macsween Allan Food Group and Non-exec Director at Associated Seafoods.
Young talent winner Amy moves from line to leader
Named as the Scotland Food & Drink Young Talent winner for 2025 in September, Amy Gillies’s journey from the production line to senior team leader at Lazy Day Foods is a great example of how to forge a fast and successful career path in the industry.
One year on, Eilidh Wynd reflects on the award that opened doors
Eilidh Wynd, commercial executive at Simon Howie Foods, has spent the last year proving exactly why she was named Scotland Food & Drink Young Talent winner in 2024.
Connecting classrooms and industry with Global Burger Challenge 2026
The burger is back as Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and Food and Drink Federation Scotland (FDF Scotland) announce the return of the Global Burger Challenge for 2026..
Build a St Andrews Day dinner
This learning resource has been created by a range of industry bodies from within the Scottish food and drink sector.
It has been designed with two main learning themes in mind: to teach young people about the journey their food makes, and to highlight some of the careers within the food and drink sector.
Career spotlight: Eilidh Wynd of Simon Howie
Ambassadors all have their own stories and here we meet one here - Eilidh Wynd, commercial executive at Simon Howie Foods - and ask her to share her story.
Build a Burns Supper
A relaunched version of a much-loved teaching resource based on a Burns Supper.
Originally created by Developing the Young Workforce, the range of resources from employers and partners showcases careers in the food & drink and land-based industries.
It is designed to help young people understand where our national food & drink comes from.
With Scots celebrating Burns Night every January, it is tied into the theme of a traditional Burns Supper, incorporating the ingredients for which Scotland is most famous.
From growing vegetables for soup and rearing salmon, through to sheep farming, making ice cream and the crucial dram, this highlights the opportunities a career in food & drink can offer.
Food & drink bosses take on Apprentice for a Day challenge
Bosses of leading food & drink organisations have gone back to the workfloor to experience life as an “apprentice for a day”.
Case study: Hugh Black & Son
There’s a shortage of skills in the food & drink industry and nowhere is this more evident than in butchery.
Hugh Black and Sons is taking a versatile approach to recruiting and retaining its workforce.
Publication type: pdf
Case study: Macsween
Find out how Macsween - a third-generation family business - became more productive and resilient after taking time to review its operations and culture.
Publication type: pdf
Higher Application of Mathmatics - Plan a Pie
A resource looking at and setting data tasks around some of the stages involved in steak pie production, demonstrating the need for maths in the world of work.