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UK Soft Drinks Conference 2025
For over 20 years, Zenith Global’s annual UK Soft Drinks Conference has brought together senior industry producers, suppliers, retailers, innovators, opinion formers and advisers to provide the fullest possible one day overview of the latest developments, issues and opportunities alongside extensive networking. Held in association with British Soft Drinks Association.
About the event
Zenith Global's annual UK Soft Drinks Conference is the industry's leading annual forum to hear about the latest market developments, explore emerging trends, debate key issues and network with other business leaders.
The 2025 programme will feature presentations from industry leaders, experts, retailers and innovators sharing exclusive insights from the past 12 months, alongside interactive panel discussions where delegates can put forward their questions and participate in polling.
Dedicated networking breaks will enable attendees to build new connections, with an expected audience of 160-200 senior industry managers, innovators, retailers, suppliers, opinion formers and advisers.
The 'Innovator marketplace' will offer brand companies the opportunity to showcase their beverages free of charge in display fridges for all attendees to discover and taste.
Venue
The Congress Centre is an ideally located and contemporary venue in the heart of London's West End. It is situated close to Tottenham Court Road underground station, from which you should use exit 3.
Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
t +44 (0)20 7467 1318 f +44 (0)207 467 1313
For further details, visit www.congresscentre.co.uk/location
Dress code: Business suit or smart casual
Testimonials
A key annual event to learn and discuss the issues & opportunities in the Soft Drinks category Paul Graham, Managing Director of Britvic and President of British Soft Drinks Association
An excellent event for anyone in the soft drinks industry, who wants to gain real time, up to date, valuable information for experts and leaders in the beverage industry. Pip Brook, FHIRST Living Soda
I've never attended a conference so laser-focused on Soft Drinks with such a high calibre of speakers. The content was cutting-edge yet easily digestible. Not only this, but the attendees were high-level too which meant there were a lot of meaningful networking opportunities. The majority of the speakers stayed for the whole event and mingled with the attendees which made for a very intimate and welcoming experience. Kenny Goodman, Co-founder, HIP POP
The UK Soft Drinks Conference brings together a useful mix of the established market leaders, and the emerging innovators - presenting a thorough overview of the future of the category. Gareth Jones, International CEO, Icelandic Glacial Water
Great event, well organised with excellent content & high value attendees offering a unique opportunity for networking.
Murray Diplock, Director, Foundry Farm
The UK Soft Drinks Conference 2024 provided us with an invaluable opportunity to meet important industry players - in particular, we were delighted to be able to introduce ourselves to key industry buyers. Andrea Fiore, Co-founder, OHMG
The 2024 Zenith UK Soft Drinks Conference was excellent, the speaker content professional as well as informative, and the presentations very engaging. 10 out of 10. Bradley Maines, National Account Manager, AQUA Carpatica
The event had an interesting cross section of speakers from emerging brands, challengers and categories. Great to meet such interesting delegates and try new products. A strong sense of positivity around boldness of action and innovation! Andrew Eyles, Chief Executive Officer, Bluemarlin
As a first time speaker and attendee I was hugely impressed at the organisation and coordination in advance of the event and also the day itself - it was informative, engaging and highly relevant. I look forward to next year! Emma Thackray, Co-founder, HIP POP
Great day of presentations and really good to taste so many different and new market products. Jill Ngo, Applications Manager, Synergy Flavours
A well organised event giving a good insight to both the Soft Drinks and Water markets. Ged Walsh, Key Account Manager, Saicaflex
I hadn't attended a Zenith event for a few years and the UK Soft Drinks Conference 2023 reminded me what excellent events they run - bang on trend content and excellent organisation. Andrew Gibb, Founder & Managing Director of ColdPress
These events are great. You always walk away with something you didn't even know you needed. A new contact, idea or just feeling inspired to do better. Maria Sehlstrom, Founder and CMO of Mindful Brands
Great place to get the knowledge about drinks industry and current trends. Lisa Gawthorne, Managing Director of Bravura Foods
Loved all the samples and particularly enjoyed hearing about the NPD in the last session as well as what Coca-Cola and Innocent are doing environmentally. Elaine Thompson, Strategic Insight Director for Kantar
Zenith events are consistently well executed and deliver exceptional industry insights and networking opportunities. Ross Colbert, Managing Director of Capstone Partners
Fantastic event with some great market insight delivered through inspiring speakers. A great opportunity to network and connect. Vicky Berry, Business Development Manager at Synergy
Zenith Global events are always informative, expertly moderated, and up to date on emerging trends, with speakers from established and newly launched brands. Well worth attending. Craig Hutchison, Founder and CEO of Mindful Brands
A fantastic event, full of insight and opportunity. George Glaisher, Co-founder of AVER
Your events are certainly the most interesting and productive on the calendar which we really enjoy being part of. The content is always stimulating, and you create a very collaborative and interactive environment, which makes it easy to chat with other delegates. Overall, it's a great opportunity to get an up-to-date understanding of the challenges and opportunities that established and entrepreneurial brands are facing in today's tough economic environment. Robin Shuker, Managing Director, Field Agent
A fantastically informative and educational event. Zenith brought together a great collection of speakers across the industry to tackle the relevant topics on everyone's mind. Madalina Popa, Food and Drinks Federation
The event was extremely well organised and ran flawlessly. The Zenith team were a pleasure to work with prior to, and during the event. Thank you very much for having me. Neal Duffy, Head of Brand at Grenade
Sponsorship
Our event and awards sponsorship packages offer a unique and effective opportunity to showcase your brand and services to a highly relevant audience.
You can choose from our Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship packages, or we can create a custom sponsorship package to suit your specific needs and budgetary requirements.
Sponsorship opportunities include:
- Presentation within the main event programme
- Opportunity to host a workshop, roundtable or drinks reception
- Exhibit display in the networking area
- Distribution of marketing material/product samples
- Delegate passes
- Discounted delegate access for your clients
- Branding across event collateral, including stage backdrop, lectern and programme
- Logo on events webpage hyperlinked to your website
- Sponsored email communication to all attendees
- Sponsored social media posts
- Regular mentions in Zenith Global's event marketing and press releases.
For information and pricing, please contact Francesca Hall, Events Director
e fhall@zenithglobal.com t +44 (0)1225 327900