Food for Profit: Starting Your Food Business

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Name: Food for Profit: Starting Your Food Business
Date: October 16, 2018
Time: 8:45 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
Event Description:
Family favorite foods make traditions. Convenience foods are in high demand. Bold new flavors wanted! Are you a Food Entrepreneur that thinks outside the box? Penn State Extension's Food for Profit is a one-day workshop to help you work through the maze of local and state regulations, food safety issues, and business management concepts that all must be considered in setting up a commercial food business.

How Can Food for Profit Help Me?

Penn State Cooperative Extension's Food for Profit workshop will take you step-by-step through the entrepreneurial process. It will provide you with the information and skills to assess if your idea will be something that will sell at a profit. Conducting a feasibility study (to see if yours is a good business idea),performing market research, and beginning to draft a business plan are a few of the concrete tools taught by certified instructors and business experts. By attending this workshop, you can learn how to evaluate the opportunities on paper before you look for funding or take action (saving money and time).

Who Should Attend the Workshop? 

If you want to develop the skills to be innovative and visionary in your business - to grow your food venture - you will enjoy and benefit from this course. If you're searching for innovative ideas about how to get your enterprise off the ground, this program is for you.
Location:
Bucknell SBDC
DeWitt Bldg., 3rd Floor
416 Market Street
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Contact Information:
Winifred McGee, Extension Educator, 717.921.8803
Fees/Admission:
Because of state and federal funds to Penn State Extension for this workshop, your fee (including lunch and all handouts) is $65.

Early bird rate of $50 if registered by October 1, 2018.

Payable by credit card, or online (see registration link)...for personal check payments please call 877-345-0691.

Pre-registration is required; deadline is October 9,2018, or when class is full. 
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