Scotland’s experts on farmer co-ops and food industry collaboration, we work with food and farming businesses to make them more profitable, competitive, and sustainable - #workingtogether to shape the future, today.
All our work helps facilitate farmers and food and drink businesses to work together effectively. Over the years we've expanded and developed subsidiary businesses - getting the right people together and making innovative advancements - to help benefit food, farming and rural Scotland.
Developing staff capability is one of the most effective ways to improve a co-op’s performance. Check out our events and training programme - most of which are open to non co-op members too.
As a development organisation, owned by our members, we provide a range of specialist services not available elsewhere, to assist them in developing their people and their businesses. Get in touch to find out how we can help you.
See below for all the latest news, views and updates from us here at SAOS. Find all our latest videos on YouTube at: SAOS - working together in food and farming
07 December 2022
The SAOS Update for Winter '22/23 is now available online and crammed with news from and for our member co-ops and other partners.
Our conference will be back in Dunblane on January 26th - we'll be discussing various ways we can navigate through these turbulent times for agri/food and drink supply chains and we're now open for bookings - do join us!
The SAOS team, as ever, has been busy in all kinds of ways - we have a blog on the important work the supply chain team has been doing on mapping various different supply chains; we ran a successful trip for co-op managers and directors to Denmark; updates from the C2Network on a busy quarter and, a year on from its foundation, we've a look at the progress and vision of our subsidiary business Food Integrity Assurance. There's lots more news from members and partners, dive in!
Read all about it at: SAOS Update Winter '22/23 by SAOS - working together we grow - Issuu