About
About TickEat
After a career in airline catering, the visionary Heerum Fleary founded TickEat in 2015: a strategic business partner for food and beverage brands seeking to place their products in the travel, leisure and hospitality industries.
Experts in delivering superb snacks, meals and drinks to the cabins and rooms of airlines, trains, cruise ships, ferries and hotels, TickEat cultivates rewarding, long-term alliances with both buyers and sellers.
TickEat Ltd is a pioneering procurement and solutions partner dedicated to the travel and leisure sectors. For over a decade, we have connected buyers with innovative suppliers, helping airlines, trains, cruise lines, lounges, and hospitality providers discover products and services that elevate their customer experience.
As the only service provider focused primarily on travel, TickEat goes beyond traditional sourcing, we deliver tailored strategies, masterclasses, curated events, and powerful partnerships that save time, drive innovation, and create lasting industry relationships.
Our Events
Services
Testimonials
This is a totally unique and wonderful event with perfect timing in the year. The whole event is organised by an amazing team who understand the industry. Also, the supporting materials are excellent and worth the investment. I would highly recommend participating in this event.
DeliLites Ireland
Engaging conversations and delicious samples made the TickEat event an encouraging success for us! We thoroughly enjoyed showcasing Datekin and Tuffnut, and we're already looking forward to our next event.
LAMA Trading Ltd
*Excellent event with quality suppliers.* Having sit-down meetings and taking the time to discuss with multiple potential suppliers is a rare occasion.
Momentum Services Ltd
Thank you for organising. I had some great in the moment feedback from many of the brands and founders!
Virgin Atlantic
As a new brand entering the travel sector, TickEat meet the buyer event gave us the ideal opportunity to meet and showcase our range to major airlines, train and leisure companies. We were able to meet with a number of brilliant buyers and have weeks' worth of meetings in one…
Luke, Doughboys
Such an insightful event. Thanks for organising this team, TickEat. Learnt so much from the buyers and loved speaking with other founders and tasting some really lovely products!
Noffee
The Tickeat Meet the Buyer is now an annual diarised, unmissable event for anyone serious about working in the travel food and drink supply chain. There is such an opportunity to meet a huge number of key decision makers in a short period of time in a relaxed environment.
Jampa's
This has to be the BEST Meet The Buyer Event ever. Huge thank you to Heerum Fleary and the guys at TICKEAT. Kudos to you Heerum, I say it often understanding some people disagree… business is people, this is the perfect display! Buyers are genuinely relaxed and interested, and a…
Cuzena
"Another great event! Thank you for inviting Evertaste to be a part of it. It was great to see so many enthusiastic and innovative brands wanting to break into travel and hospitality."
Evertaste
I loved the networking evening! It was fantastic to bring everyone together and create a relaxed space for brands and buyers to connect. I always like hearing the stories and journeys behind each brand. We're already seeing the benefits of sitting down and having real conversations with buyers. They get…
Oatopia
Our Partners
Meet the Team
Behind TickEat is a specialist team with deep roots in food and beverage, bringing together 25+ years of industry experience. We've spent our careers immersed in the categories that matter most, which means we understand not just the products, but the people, processes, and pressures that shape them.
Our team also includes two former buyers with specialist backgrounds in rail, airline, and foodservice catering. They've built long-standing relationships across the travel and leisure sector, and we draw on that network every day, both to educate and showcase brands looking to grow their presence and to support buyers navigating their sourcing decisions.
It's this blend of operational expertise and trusted relationships that lets us connect the right brands with the right buyers, time and again.
