FoodDrinkEurope’s latest Data & Trends 2022 report is now available, providing comprehensive statistics and insights on the EU food and drink industry. Data & Trends 2022 shows that the EU food and drink industry employs 4.6 million people, generates a turnover of €1.1 trillion and €230 billion in value added, making it one of the largest manufacturing industries in the EU. In half of the EU’s 27 Member States, the food and drink industry is t...

Ahead of the EU-ASEAN Commemorative Summit this Wednesday, 14 December 2022, marking the 45th anniversary of EU-ASEAN relations, FoodDrinkEurope calls on EU and ASEAN representatives to step up cooperation on trade, investment and sustainable development, including in food and drink. The EU and ASEAN are long-standing strategic partners committed to the rules-based international order and multilateralism. ASEAN represents the EU’s third largest trading partner outsid...

The food and drink industries of the European Union would like to underline their unwavering support for the swift implementation of the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy agenda in the current volatile times. While many food and drink companies are confronted with challenges today resulting from an amalgamation of external shocks, such as the Covid pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine, inflation, labour shortages and more, immediate crisis and emergency me...

This guidance was developed by FoodDrinkEurope to help and guide life-cycle assessment practitioners in the application of the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology on food and drink products where no Product Environmental Footprint category rules (PEFCR) is available. The document provides complementary guidance to the food and drink sector based on the EU recommendation on the use of PEF. If a PEFCR is available for a specific food product category, its us...

Data & Trends 2021 shows that the EU food and drink industry employs 4.5 million people, generates a turnover of €1.1 trillion and €222 billion in value added, making it a major contributor to the EU economy. In almost half of the EU’s 27 Member States, the food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing employer. This year’s edition includes the latest data on the bioeconomy, the EU-UK food...