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Milena
Future Brands Origination and Investment, Sainsbury's
Enjoy dinner, drinks and a chance to meet…
Milena Lazarevska is Head of Future Brands Origination and Investing at Sainsbury’s, the leading multi-billion pound chain of UK supermarkets. Milena’s team are always looking for exciting and distinctive brands that Sainsbury’s shoppers will love. This is a great opportunity to meet and chat with Milena and to find out all on getting your own challenger brand stocked.
This dinner is perfect for…
Strict criteria: Startup founders of, or C-level at, challenger brands within food and drink.
If you'd like to join but don't fall neatly within the above categories, please email us at hello@tablecrowd.com to discuss whether this is the right dinner for you. Also feel free to check out our other dinners as another might match you perfectly!
The dinner conversation will be…
With a mission to find challenger brands that customers can’t get anywhere else, Milena is keen to meet with entrepreneurs and young brands that Sainsbury’s could partner with in the future. Take this opportunity to hear from Milena who will share all on:
✓ Getting your challenger brand stocked.
✓ Pitching your brand to a national supermarket chain - the key do’s and don'ts.
✓ Understanding the process, from initial introduction, pitching, to getting stocked.
✓ Key success stories of finding, supporting and scaling challenger brands across Sainsbury’s.
Who is Milena Lazarevska?
Milena Lazarevska is Head of Future Brands Origination and Investing at Sainsbury’s. She joined the team early 2018 and is always on the hunt for new and innovative food and drink challenger brands that Sainsbury’s customers will love. A scientist by training, Milena started her career as a strategy consultant at Bain and Company and her passion for food and drink led her to Sainsbury’s in 2014. Since 2014, she has held senior roles in strategy and trading, including leading the buying function for canned goods, food enhancers, hot beverages, and homebaking, with sales of over £1b.
What’s included?
You get a private dining experience with a knowledgeable speaker, 2 course dinner with wine or 2 soft drinks plus highly curated and relevant crowd. This is a dinner, not a dropin event, so we ask that guests turn up on time and don’t leave until after the Q&A.
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P.S. TableCrowd are offering complimentary cab rides home (£15) thanks to their partner, Gett, on first download of the app. Download the app in advance.
Milena Lazarevska is Head of Future Brands Origination and Investing at Sainsbury’s. Milena joined the Future Brands team in early 2018 and is always on the hunt for new and innovative food and drink challenger brands that Sainsbury’s customers will love. A scientist by training, Milena started her career as a strategy consultant at Bain and Company and her passion for food and drink led her to Sainsbury’s in 2014. Since 2014, she has held senior roles in strategy and trading, including leading the buying function for canned goods, food enhancers, hot beverages, and homebaking, with sales of over £1b.
Combining her passion for food and drink with an analytical mindset and expertise in retail trading, Milena and the Future Brands team are perfectly placed to find, partner with and grow challenger brands at Sainsbury’s.
One of the TableCrowd hosting team will be on hand to make sure you are welcomed through the door and introduced to the most relevant people to you.
Our Food & Drink Ambassador is Rob Ward, founder of the Grocery Accelerator - the place where investors and trade buyers meet high potential, early stage food & drink brands.
For any advance questions about this dinner, it is best to reach us at hello@tablecrowd.com.
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