The Natural Food & Drink Company
Supporting brands to bring innovative products to life, from concept product idea to full market launch and commercial manufacturing
At The Natural Food and Drink Company (NFD), we focus on high quality contract blending and bottling, warehousing and innovative new product development.
We specialise in Non-Alcoholic Spirits/Beverages and Innovative Functional Health products.
Working alongside start ups and multinationals, our SALSA accredited facility is capable of bottling up to 4M units per year.
Contract Bottling
New Product Development
Warehousing
Our Services
New Product Development
We take a scientific approach to new ideas with the next steps of scale up and production always in mind. There is so much more than just getting the flavour right!
Using our unique hands-on approach, we have helped launch a number of award-winning new products, as well as supporting external product developers with their latest projects.
We have the facilities to scale up with great speed to market, with a tried and tested production method.
Once we have a commercial recipe locked, we move to a trial production.
Blending and Bottling
We are world leaders in non-alcoholic spirits production and functional health drinks. Owing to our experienced technical backgrounds, we are proud to have a globally unique process allowing us to bottling within this exciting category, working with over 25 brands within this space. Quality is at the heart of everything we do at NFD.
Since 2021, we are also able to handle alcoholic spirits and cocktails, expanding our offering to new and existing customers!
We can fill most types of liquid, in glass and aluminium bottles, from 4 mL to 1000mL, and up to IBCs for blending.
ROPP, T-Cork and Screw-top closures.
Labelling, Hand Assembly and Rework
We take top-quality care in all packaging work. With automated front/back/ wrap around labelling capabilities and an experienced team for and specific manual labelling requirements,
We also handle hand assembly jobs, where machine work is just not unsuitable: repacking into other case formats, rework/rectification , gift packing and shelf ready packaging, hand labelling, addition of wax tops, and more!
Warehouse and Storage
We have recently expanded our factory to a total of 17,600 sq ft, offering a dedicated storage space of over 7,000 sq ft to accomodate raw materials and finished product for short-to-long term storage.
Having your goods on stored on site saves costs in transport, the hassle of movement, and allows us to quickly access goods for last minute additional productions!
Our secure facility is a bonded warehouse authorised by HMRC, offering a specialised service, especially for our size.
Our Story
The Natural Food & Drink Company is a family business set up in 2017 by Dr Ketan Joshi and his sons, Jay and Dev, originally to create a range of Ayurvedic functional drinks.
With years of industry experience, we struggled to find the right manufacturer that could deliver with the service we needed.
We then set out to right the wrong, and created The Natural Food & Drink Company, a new approach to development and manufacturing, with family values at the heart of the business.
Since 2018, we have been busy expanding our capabilities to ensure our customers can scale quickly, tripling our warehouse space and our production team. In the whole of 2023, we filled 1 million units. In 2025, we hit that by May!
Meet the Team
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Jay Joshi, PhD
Managing Director
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Dev Joshi, BEng
Operations Director
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Sri Popuru, MSc
Quality Manager and New Products
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Siva Srinivasan, MSc
Production Manager
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Production Team
Our production team is the heart of the company working hard behind the scenes!
We are located across 3 warehouses (and growing) located in South Reading, RG2 0AU.
We are proud to serve some amazing truly forward-thinking customers.
From large established multinationals to budding start ups, we have experience handling customers and orders of all sizes.
We have a proven track record of meeting the high expectations of our customers.
Unfortunately, due to strict confidentiality, we are unable to share on our website.