Essex’s 34 Fastest Growing Food and Beverage Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 34 Food and Beverage companies in Essex. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Food and Beverage Companies & Startups (Essex)

Ordit

Ordit is online Food delivery and catering services for office food needs, including meals for late workers, meetings events and more.

Fairfields Farm

Colchester-based potato farm and hand-cooked crisp producer

Wood for Stone

Wood for Stone provides a diverse range of natural stone products.

Shaken Udder

Shaken Udder blends fresh milk with real ingredients to create a variety of flavours.

Ironmongery Direct Ltd.

Ironmongery Direct Ltd. is a distributor of ironmongery products to tradesmen.

Jollyes

Jollyes is an independent chain of pet food superstores throughout the UK.

Eat Natural

Eat Natural is a manufacturer and retailer of gluten-free snacks and dry fruit products.

Tiptree

Tiptree is making high quality preserves since 1885.

Venners

Venners provides well-established and reliable stocktakers and stocktaking services.

Kluman & Balter

Kluman & Balter is an independent bakery ingredients suppliers.

Fine Wine Sellers

Fine Wine Sellers is a wine seller based in United Kingdom.

Edme Limited

Edme is a creator and manufacturer of high-quality cereal-based food ingredients.

The Orchard Fruit Company

The Orchard Fruit Company. dedicated to supplying the worlds best top fruit, stone fruit and citrus.

Midland Chilled Foods

Midland Chilled Food is a specialist in the foodservice and wholesale distribution industries.

Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd.

Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd. is an alluring, glamorous, and sophisticated, world-renowned Gentleman’s Club and Restaurant.

Hot Spotz

Hot Spotz is a event management site.

ABV Logistics Ltd

ABV Logistics Ltd offers supply chain and logistical solutions to the beer, wine, and spirit industry.

Two Docs LTD

A food tech company that created Whatsinit? the ingredients app.

RM Curtis

RM Curtis is an importers, and suppliers of edible nuts, dried fruit, and seeds.

Vorrei – Delicious Italian Food

Vorrei is a family-run online wine and food retailer, specialising in bringing the culture of healthy Italian food to the UK.

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UK Salads

UK Salads is a food processing firm that grows, packs, and imports produce like peppers, aubergines, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

Safa Indian Restaurant

Safa Indian Restaurant is one of the best Indian Restaurants in the Chelmsford, Essex.

RIVIERA DRINKS

Riviera Drinks Co is one of the fastest growing soft-drinks dispense companies in the UK.

SCLA Lion Noodles

SCLA Lion Noodles is a manufacturer of authentic and high-quality noodles, chop suey and fresh pastry.

UK Blending

UK Blending provides quality and food safety services.

The Hummingbird Bakery

The Hummingbird Bakery specializes in baking a wide variety of desserts, cupcakes, pies, and cakes for various occasions.

Direct Meats

Direct Meats offers a wide range of processed meat products like poultry, pork, and beef sausages, burger patties, cooked, and cured meat.

Instantwok

Instantwok is a wholesale retailer of Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese and Malaysian food products.

Surya Foods

Surya Foods is a retail grocery store that supplies authentic world food.

scae

The Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) sits at the very heart of the coffee community,

Community Foods

Community Foods is an importer, seller and distributor of natural and organic dried fruits and nuts.

Paragon Commodities

Paragon Commodities imports and wholesales a wide range of nuts and chocolates, along with offering rainforest recovery services.

CupsDirect

CupsDirect is an e-commerce site that provides food and beverage packaging products.