Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi sefydlu tri grŵp clwstwr o fewn y sector Bwyd a Diod yng Nghymru,
Clwstwr Bwydydd Da, Maeth, a Bwyd Môr.
Mae pob un grŵp yn cynnwys nifer o gwmniau bwyd a diod perthnasol sy’n cyfarfod yn
rheolaidd, gyda’r bwriad o helpu’r cwmniau hynny i ddatblygu eu busnesau.
There are two essences of it.
The first is for strategic for Welsh Government, it’s a development tool economic – it
drives businesses to higher growth.
For businesses it’s about an opportunity to see where they might be able to grow, and
also understand where their competitors are, and also where they might be able to save
some money as well.
Mae’r cwmniau ym mhob un grŵp clwstwr yn cwrdd i drafod pob math o faterion sy’n
ymwneud â rhedeg cwmni bwyd a diod yng Nghymru.
So we meet every 2 months and we talk about what’s been happening
in our business, what challenges we’ve faced, and we offer solutions to each other and those
little gems of knowledge can be worth such a lifeline to us to help solve problems within
in our own business.
It’s quite a nice, sort of casual way to have a good discussion and great
presentations, to say ‘Look, we need at this part’, whether we need to go into London,
or whether we need to target more in South Wales, or just Wales as a whole, what kind
of distributors do we need to use, who’s best for this, who’s best for that, and
the same thing for the export really, that’s what the cluster’s all about, you know,
it’s working together, Welsh food companies together.
Mae gofyn bod y cwmniau o fewn y grwpiau clwstwr yn ymddiried yn eu gilydd a’u bod yn barod
i rannu gwybodaeth a syniadau sy’n ymwneud â’u busnesau a’u cynnyrch ac mae hyn
yn hanfodol i lwyddiant y grwpiau clwstwr a’r ffordd mae’r busnesau yn manteisio
o fod yn rhan ohonynt.
One of the core concepts of clusters is the development of trust.
There is knowledge within a business that you would never share with anybody.
However, there is a range of other things that you might share, so what you are doing
through the cluster process, is, you are trying to demonstrate trust, and openness, so that,
eventually, the businesses that attend start to open up more.
And you can see it, it’s a really interesting facet of what we do.
It’s great to bounce ideas off everyone, so you can come in, and
you can if you’ve got a new idea, or a new product, you can speak to everyone and they
can give you feedback, because they’re all, they’re all in the same thing, they’re
all doing new product development all the time, so they’re great people to talk to
and get advice from.
[Ruth Davies] It’s been great for us, because, say we’re looking for packaging and someone
else is looking for packaging, we might get better deals by sort of ordering a pallet
of it maybe.
I also feel with the Cluster, there’s no competition there, everybody’s quite willing
to help everybody else, whatever stage we’re at.
We’re all very different, even though perhaps there’s 2 companies doing charcuterie products,
we’re all so different.
And everything, absolutely anything that I feel that I’d like to learn more on to move
forward as a business, there’s somebody here with that experience.
It’s great actually, I feel as if we’re part of a team, but a very high class team.
I just love being a part of it, very proud to be a part of it.