Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world. For more than 70 years, Lamb Weston has led the industry in innovation, introducing inventive products that simplify back-of-house management and make things more delicious for their customers. From the fields where Lamb Weston potatoes are grown to proactive customer partnerships, Lamb Weston always strives for more and never settles. Because, when we look at a potato, we see possibilities.
Lamb Weston products can be found in more than 100 countries around the world. The business is headquartered in Eagle, Idaho, with manufacturing operations focused in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in the world’s best potato- growing region, the Columbia River Basin. Lamb Weston employs more than 7,000 people around the world in sales offices, manufacturing plants and corporate offices. Learn more about us at lambweston.com.
ESG
Lamb Weston has set ambitious 2030 goals to work towards in the coming years, which is aligned with the three key areas of ESG focus:
- People: how the company provides for its team members and the communities where it operates.
- Food: offering customers and consumers the highest quality potato products, made responsibly.
- Planet: reducing our environmental impact and conserving natural resources through
forward-looking agricultural programs and efficient manufacturing. In our third Environmental, Social and Governance report we report progress against 2030 ESG goals describe our actions and accomplishments during our fiscal year 2021. The full ESG report is available at esg.lambweston.com.
Innovation needs
At Lamb Weston, we’re always on the lookout for new ways to innovate our products, processes, and packaging. Historically, we’ve led the way in terms of new product offerings, capabilities, and technology. Now we’re looking to partner with passionate, energetic, and creative entrepreneurs to keep making progress in this space. For Lamb Weston growing high quality potatoes in a sustainable and efficient manner is of vital importance. Specifically, we are looking at ideas to improve our crop results and utilize a crop intelligence program for potatoes by providing real time insights into crop health and remediation/treatment options. In addition to this we are interested in proposals concerning economically feasible and effective biologics for potatoes, such as fertilizers and pesticides.
What we are looking for
We are looking for ways to improve our potato crop results by using latest available technology and treatment options in the most sustainable manner
What we are not looking for
We are not looking for robots, automation, or mechanical solutions to improve planting and/or or harvesting potatoes.
What we offer
Lamb Weston is a key player in the frozen potato sector, and we are committed to our innovation and sustainability initiatives. Working with Lamb Weston will open doors to the various partnerships we have with growers, suppliers, and business partners around the world. Our scale, manufacturing capabilities, cutting edge technology, and industry expertise are all available to our partners. We look forward to building something incredible together.
How does it work?
- Send in a short and concise pitch deck with your solution
- As soon as you have uploaded your pitch, you will receive a confirmation so that you know that we have received your pitch.
- Your pitch is only visible to Lamb Weston
- After the deadline, Lamb Weston will assess all pitches individually and invite the companies with the most interesting solutions for a 1:1 conversation to get to know each other and look for opportunities to collaborate.
Pitch format
- Send in a short and concise pitch deck of your solution (max 4 pages / 12 slides) with description of the following two parts:
- A description of your product or solution
Give a short description of your product or solution, as detailed and visual as possible. In which phase is the solution? - A description of your company & team
How and when was your company founded? In which phase are you? How many people? In which market are you active? Also a short description of the (managing) team.
- A description of your product or solution
The pitch deck may be submitted in free form (presentation, slide deck, letter form), but must be uploaded as a PDF file (landscape or portrait A4 - max 30MB). Videos, example websites, etc. can be included as a link.
Timeline
- November 1 at 17.00 CET: Deadline challenge
- November 2 – 21 : Selection period
- November 21 - 25: Announcements selection & invites for 1:1 conversations
- December/Januari: 1:1 conversations
- Q1/Q2 2022 onwards: discuss and start collaboration
Terms & conditions
- Participation is open for startups, scale-ups, SMEs, grown-ups, innovators and scientists with an innovative product and/or technology.
- You will remain the owner of your intellectual rights, concept or solution in your pitch, until you agree otherwise.
- Be aware of the fact that your pitch (and concepts and ideas in it) will be viewed and be shared with (internal) stakeholders. Keep IP sensitive unique (technical) details out of your pitch, keep it a secret that you can share later.
- We strongly advise you to document everything you share with others and mention that information provided is confidential and intellectual property rights remain with you/ your company until agreed otherwise.