Chilled & Frozen
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Celebrating St George’s Day The Gourmet Way
21 April 2009 NewsOur patron saint is usually surpassed by drinking in traditional St Paddy's Day style, but this Thursday it is grub not Guinness that has prompted patriotic festivities -
Delicatessen Sales Surge Despite Credit Crunch
20 April 2009 NewsIn its latest research, Discover the Origin has found that 80% of independent food and wine stores in the UK are flourishing. And, while Brits may be penny pinching on most luxuries, quality food and wine are indulgences that consumers can’t get through the week without. -
Pub-deli Seizes Speciality Food Opportunity
14 April 2009 NewsA 75% increase in sales of local products, over the last four years, has convinced the owners of a deli-pub in north Yorkshire that there is real profit to be made from stocking speciality foods. -
Are You Britain’s Best Butcher?
09 April 2009 NewsA butchery competition for farm shop owners, managers and butchers will be a new feature of this year’s Beef Expo on the Three Counties Showground. -
Blagdon Butchers Best In Europe
03 April 2009 NewsBlagdon Farm Shop, a member of FARMA North East (the Farmers’ Retail and Markets Association), has won two gold and two silver awards at the international Eurobeef Trade Competition. -
Go Organic This Spring
02 April 2009 NewsThis year's Natural & Organic Products Europe on 5th and 6th April at Olympia will once again put the best natural and organic in the spotlight, proving just how important and resilient the organic food trade has become, even in the current challenging climate. -
Organic Food Feels The Burn
31 March 2009 NewsMarket research by the TNS Worldpanel has shown, discouragingly, that sales of organic food have dropped by a fifth - from £100 million to £81 million - in the past year. -
Retailers Urged To Head To Exeter
27 March 2009 NewsShowcasing over 150 South West producers from every sector of the industry, the Show takes place at Exeter’s Westpoint Exhibition Centre on Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st March. -
Unique Farm Shop Opens In Hospital
27 March 2009 NewsA Helston butchers is opening a new farm store at Truro's Royal Cornwall Hospital, which will be run by one of the town's former police officers. -
Tesco Benefits From Local Interest
27 March 2009 NewsTesco has reported a sharp 30% sales increase in locally sourced foods in this calendar year to date, with products such as East Anglian rapeseed oil, Cornish Brie, Hampshire watercress and Northumbrian black-faced lamb coming up trumps for the multiple. -
Britain’s Best Honoured In Rural Awards
23 March 2009 NewsOn 18th March 2009 the national Countryside Alliance Awards were handed out at a Parliamentary reception in London. The Awards, nicknamed “The Rural Oscars", honour the countryside through the people who work so hard to preserve its communities, traditions and enterprise. -
A Taste Of Tradition At Exeter
19 March 2009 NewsLater this month, the Taste of the West Trade Show 2009 will host the perfect cuppa, exclusively for hospitality and retail outlets.
