Welcome to Risk-ready Recipes – a thought-provoking podcast series exploring the most pressing issues shaping the food and beverage industry. Join us as we dive into expert interviews, specialist analysis and actionable insights that offer fresh perspectives on the evolving risk landscape, challenges and opportunities across the sector.
Grab a coffee, settle in, and let’s unpack the risks and opportunities of the food and beverage industry together.

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A Recipe for recall: Responding to product crises
In this episode of Risk-Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, is joined by Louise Dorrian and Jack Broadbent from WTW's Product Recall team to discuss the growing challenges surrounding product recall in the food and beverage sector. They examine the impact of tighter regulation, complex supply chains, allergens, contamination and cyber-related incidents, along with the financial and reputational damage a recall can cause.AI Appetite: What’s at stake for the sector?
In this episode of Risk‑Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, is joined by Sam Haslam from WTW’s Risk & Resilience team and Chris Matthews, Managing Director of Svella AI Solutions, to discuss the rise of AI in the food and beverage industry.Cybersecurity on the menu: A recipe for supply chain resilience
In this episode of Risk-Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, is joined by Ian Cairns and Matt Ellis from WTW’s cyber team about the rising threat of cyber attacks in the food and beverage industry.Future proofing your business: Building a strategy for climate resilience
In this episode of Risk-Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, is joined by Jennifer Bonner and Moiz Bohra from WTW’s climate risk team to explore how food and beverage businesses can build climate resilience. The discussion covers the impact of weather volatility, such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves, on agricultural supply chains, the financial and operational risks posed by climate change and the evolving regulatory landscape around climate-related disclosures.Chain reaction: Risk and resilience in food and beverage supply
In this episode of Risk-Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, and Simon Lusher explore the growing complexity of supply chain risks in the food and beverage sector.Geopolitics on the menu: Navigating political risk in a fragile world
In this episode of Risk-Ready Recipes, Sue Newton, UK Food & Beverage Leader at WTW, speaks with Sam Wilkin and Silja Stawikowski from our Political Risk teams in the US and Germany. They discuss the current geopolitical landscape for food and beverage businesses, how to identify emerging risks and the extent to which those risks can be transferred.
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