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FOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD
The Food Development Company Ltd is registered in the UK to promote sustainable
enterprise development worldwide. The aims and objectives include:
- To create sustainable enterprises by applying commercial market based
strategies to achieve social and environmental purposes.
- To create demand for local products by linking landscape, culture and
biodiversity conservation to generate income for local communities within the framework of local and regional development plans.
- To bring private sector values to community development and through equity
participation build long term capacity.
- To promote truly bottom up development that is commercially and financially
sustainable, ethical and environmentally friendly.
The Food Development Company will promote and manage impact investments
and undertake trade in a range of products. Jim Turnbull and Murray Pringle are the founding directors and Belmont Management Consultants Limited is a major
shareholder. Wayne Borden, Chris Grace and Edwin Vera are also investors.
The first operational subsidiary in the portfolio is the Transylvania Food Company Srl. The TFC was established in Romania in February 2010.
Jim Turnbull was interviewed about Transylvania for the BBC Radio 4 Food
Programme broadcast on Sunday 5th September 2010. Listen to the programme at http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/tkpc3/
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