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Food, Beverage and Agriculture

Willis helps more than 2,000 global food, beverage and agriculture businesses find the right risk management and people solutions, underpinned by sophisticated analytics and risk engineering.​
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Risks Overview​

What are the greatest risks to food, beverage and agriculture businesses?​

In a fast-changing world, food, beverage and agriculture businesses face a wide range of emerging challenges, from climate change to geopolitical instability, economic uncertainty and cyber-attacks.

The industry is also at risk from perennial threats such as natural catastrophes and product failure.​

These factors can affect everything from commodity prices and sourcing to business continuity, reputation and consumer confidence.​

How we can help you manage your food, beverage and agriculture risk exposures

To address complex challenges, you need a partner with knowledge in multiple disciplines. As well as global insurance broking expertise, our Food, Beverage and Agriculture industry team includes specialists in risk engineering, data and analytics, multinational client service, policy wordings and human resources.

Specialist support helping businesses build resilience across key risk exposures

We have access to the best people and risk specialists across WTW, covering areas such as property and liability, crisis management, supply chain disruption, environmental risk, product recall and contaminated products, business continuity, cyber risk, ESG, reputational risk, claims management, mergers and acquisitions, political risk, trade credit, employee benefits, total rewards, employee experience and workforce management.

With this combined knowledge and expertise in people and risk, we can help you:

  • Understand your organization to mitigate your unique risks and operational needs.
  • Build resilience across your organization, from supply chains to workforce.
  • Manage the cyber risk and workforce skills that comes with increasing automation.
  • Address emerging geopolitical challenges.
  • Protect against environmental and climate risks.
  • Reduce the overall cost of risk and improve the efficiency and resilience of your operations.
*Statistics as at 1 May 2026

2000+

food, beverage and agriculture clients globally

400+

insurance markets accessed globally through our Direct & Facultative global specialty

Access to global insurance markets through one networked team

Our global Food, Beverage and Agriculture industry team brings our specialists from around the world together in one networked group. This enables us to find the most suitable brokers and risk management solutions anywhere in the world through our global hubs and networks via a single point of access.

Sophisticated risk analytics and loss modelling

Analytics underpin everything we do. Our sophisticated loss modeling capabilities can help you predict likely risks years ahead and plan effective risk management strategies to deal with them. And our human capital teams provide data, insights and strategies to compete effectively for scarce talent.

Insights on emerging risks and trends

Our multidiscipline teams will give you regular, in-depth insights on emerging risks and trends affecting the food, beverage and agriculture industry. Our goal is to keep you ahead of events by looking beyond headlines to help you implement the right people and risk management solutions for your organization.

Cost control

We use our evaluation and analysis of your risk exposures and operations to provide insights that help minimize your total cost of risk and improve the efficiency and resilience of your operations.

Which food, beverage and agriculture sectors do we serve?

Our clients span the full supply chain from farm to fork, seed to supermarket shelf, including:

  • Food producers and agribusiness
  • Food manufacturers and processors
  • Large and complex livestock and aquaculture
  • Brewers, distillers and soft drink companies
  • Bottlers
  • Dairies
  • Restaurants
  • Vineyards
  • Farmers
  • Fruit producers and processors
  • Distributors
  • Wholesalers

How we can support your sustainability strategy

Our Food, Beverage and Agriculture team includes sustainability specialists who can help your organization address environmental issues and embed sustainability across your operations.

The adoption of sustainability standards in many countries has pushed environmental issues up the boardroom agenda. Our team can help your leaders and board develop a coherent strategy that addresses your role in environmental stewardship.

2026 Global Food, Beverage & Agriculture Survey Highlights

Discover the key findings from our 2026 Global Food, Beverage & Agriculture Risk Report, based on a survey of 450 senior risk management decision-makers from leading food and beverage companies, revealing the top risks, industry challenges and resilience trends shaping 2026.

How we address risk in the food, beverage and agriculture industry

We combine our specialist industry knowledge with our data and analytics capabilities to design optimum, cost-efficient insurance program structures.

Our broking specialists then access the global insurance market, identifying the best insurance partners to fit your risk.

All of which is easily accessible to you through our client portal, ensuring instant access to risk information for efficient and proactive decision making.

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Michael Mooney

Sales and Client Management

Global Food, Beverage & Agriculture Risk Report 2026

New global research reveals the risks, opportunities and resilience strategies shaping the food, beverage and agriculture sector as leaders navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.