There is no space here for a complete history but we can provide a few pointers to the region’s heritage. The wool and worsted industry of Norfolk and Suffolk stemmed from the mercantile prosperity of Tudor times – and the impact can still be seen today in the buildings, churches and cathedrals across the region: Gothic architecture in almost all of the Cambridge Colleges, mercantile and Georgian houses in Kings' Lynn and Wisbech, and chocolate box pink villages in the Suffolk wool towns. Norwich, Bury St Edmunds and Ely. And wherever you travel you are never more than a few minutes away from a windmill.
Why Join Food East?
Joining FoodEast..... why bother?
We have about 500 companies and over 3000 individuals who have asked this question and they concluded that it was worth joining the FoodEast network. So, if you join you will not be lonely!
But this is not LinkedIn or Facebook. We are just trying to fill a gap in the communications network for the region's food and drink chain.
We want you to use FoodEast as one of your sources of "best practice" information. That will save you money and time.
We know that food businesses often work 24/7 and we know that they have lots of pressure from their customers so the last thing you want from a network is more stuff to manage or to waste your time with stuff that doesn't help your business.
We think you appreciate timely, brief information about how you can do things better 
- sometimes this is just local news,
- sometimes its about skills or training issues,
- sometimes its about innovation and product development, or that big new question, "is it sustainable?"
- sometimes its about how to find the best advice on HR or pensions or legal issues, or other messy stuff,
- sometimes its about where to find a grant to make that critical training or R & D happen
Whatever it is, we will try and tell you about these things via the websaite or via a short email a couple of times a week.
It costs you nothing and we will not email you if you do not enrol as a member. So, little or no cost to you but potentially big gains.
That's why you should join FoodEast.