Know your strengths – Tse’s message to FMCG delegates
“STICK to what you’re good at”…that was the potent message from business leader Lisa Tse when she appeared at the first ever Gama Innovation Conference & Awards – an event for the fast moving consumer goods sector – which took place in Manchester.
More than 60 delegates Manchester Central from around the world for a series of presentations.
Guests attended from as far afield as Austria, Turkey, India and Thailand, in the first event of its kind for the FMCG world, including manufacturers, entrepreneurs, industry bodies and innovation experts.
Tse, chief executive of Manchester Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin, which also specialises in Chinese sauces, said the keys to success in building a retail food brand a driving growth was “knowing what you’re good at, and sticking with”.
Tse, who is keynote speaker at TheBusinessDesk’s sell-out Women’s Lunch on Friday November 25 at Manchester’s Grafene restaurant, said: “After researching the market we thought we had a good chance to compete by sticking with something we are really good at, and creating something we know about from the inside out for many, many years.”
Meanwhile, Mayor of Greater Manchester Tony Lloyd spoke about the many ways Manchester has been at the forefront of innovation and its constant need for reinvention.
Manchester City Council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein talked about the potential of the Northern Powerhouse, emphasizing the importance of focusing on key assets and the need to connect people and cities to drive innovation.
“An agglomeration of the leading city regions in the North of England could create one of the top 20 economies in the world in terms of size and scale,” he said.
