Ideas On Food is... Liz Burt
A consumate hard worker and a constant thinker of ideas, Liz can help fill the gaps for businesses too busy 'doing' to be creative and pro-active with their own development and marketing. If there's something needs doing for which she doesn't have the skills, she usually knows someone who does!
Liz's food career began in London in 1983 with her own corporate hospitality business, where she spent 12 years as a professional chef and event organiser. From making tea for Prince Charles to getting up to her elbows in coronation chicken (yes, that's what we ate in the 80's), or sweeping a kitchen floor, nothing was too grand or lowly a job for her!
A career change launched Liz into PR in London's Sloane Street, managing accounts including Solvite where she looked after the man who used to stick himself to a piece of board and hang from a helicopter using the medium of glue. Strange but true! She didn't need to pay for glue for a long time...
A move to Dorset in 1994 was followed by 8 years at the Guild of Fine Food, lastly as a director, developing initiatives to support regional food producers and independent retailers, through trade associations, publishing, exhibitions, training and events including The Speciality & Fine Food Fairs, Fine Food Digest Magazine, Good Cheese Magazine, The Great Taste Awards and The World Cheese Awards. Over the years Liz has worked with every key agency connected to the speciality food sector.
In 2004 Liz became marketing & sales director with award-winning Dorset speciality food producer Olives Et Al, then in 2007 she launched her own food marketing consultancy, Ideas On Food. Liz now works with a number of companies in a sales and marketing mentoring role, on a retained or one-off project basis, even stepping in at Exec Director level if required, helping them develop their brands and find successful routes to market for their speciality products.
Liz has lived in Sherborne, Dorset for 17 years and is enthusiastic about the wealth of world class food produced in the West Country and, indeed, every region of Great Britain (and in lovely parts of the rest of the world too come to think of it).
Last, but not least, she loves battenburg cake and beetroot. But not together. Yet.
