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Food and drink: Business Continuity and Resilience | Resilience Guard
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Industries we serve

Food and drink

Producers and processors combine perishable inputs, strict safety regulation and retail customers who measure failure in missed delivery windows.

Practitioner led since 2014 Led by John Zeppos, Founder and Group Managing Director DRI Accredited training provider Three BCI Global Awards 16+ EU Horizon research projects Trusted to train 3 of the Big Four

The regulatory drivers

Food safety law, traceability and recall obligations sit alongside customer continuity requirements from major retailers, with energy and water dependencies bringing exposure to critical infrastructure disruption on the input side.

The threat profile we plan against

  • Perishability. Inputs and outputs with shelf lives that turn a two day outage into total loss.
  • Safety and recall. Contamination events where recall execution, traceability and communication decide the outcome.
  • Cold chain dependence. Refrigeration, energy and logistics dependencies running through every product.
  • Retailer requirements. Major retail customers auditing supplier continuity and delisting on failure.
How we help

Consulting

Business impact analysis, continuity and crisis frameworks, and certification readiness against ISO 22301 and ISO 27001, built for this sector's realities.

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Training and exercising

Leadership crisis exercises and accredited training that turn plans into rehearsed behaviour, including Operation HELVETIA.

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Resilience Arena

Our platform for living plans, in-platform simulations and audit-ready compliance evidence across sites and teams.

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See how this works in practice in our case studies, or start from the wider discipline on our business continuity management page.

Proof in this sector
Frequently asked questions
Can you integrate with our HACCP and recall procedures?

Yes. We build continuity and crisis response around your existing food safety system so there is one coherent response, not competing manuals, and we exercise recall scenarios end to end.

How do you handle energy dependency for cold chain?

Impact analysis quantifies exactly how long each site and product survives an energy or refrigeration failure, then we design mitigations that the numbers justify, from generation to logistics alternatives.

Our retailer gave us an audit deadline. Can you move fast?

Yes. A focused gap assessment, a workable plan and a documented exercise can be achieved on retailer timescales; we have done it repeatedly.

Start the conversation

Resilience built for food and drink.

A confidential conversation with a senior practitioner who knows the sector. We respond within 24 hours. No obligation.

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All consultations are treated with strict confidentiality.