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Food & Drink Network Success Stories

Derbyshire Farmers Diversify Into Luxury Ice Cream Making

Posted: 15/10/2008

Dairy farmers, the Brown family are turning their hands to a cool alternative to milk with the launch of their luxury Bluebell’s Farmhouse Dairy Ice Cream.

  • Rutland Farmer Makes the Cut with Butchery Investment

    Posted: 08/10/2008

    Hambleton Farms Ltd, owner of well-known FC Phipps, a butchery and outlet of fine foods and prime, traditional and rare breed stock sourced locally, has invested in the latest computer equipment to help process orders and keep up with demand.

  • Nottingham Events Caterer Secures Major Supermarket Contract

    Posted: 18/08/2008

    Leading Nottingham-based event catering business McArtney’s Catering has won a contract to supply desserts to one of the UK’s most successful supermarket retailers following a major investment in new technology.

  • Merifoods gets a slice of the action

    Posted: 18/08/2008

    Lincolnshire based Merifoods – supplier to some of the UK’s top food manufacturers - has invested in the latest slicing technology to meet increasing demand for healthy eating.

  • Taste and flavour is recipe for success

    Posted: 28/07/2008

    Flavometrix Limited was formed in 2004 by Professor Andy Taylor and is based at the Department of Food Science at The University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington Campus. The company uses high-tech equipment and techniques to carry out contract research and development for the food and pharmaceutical industries

  • The future is golden for Farrington Oils

    Posted: 22/04/2008

    A Northamptonshire rapeseed oil producer, which grows, presses and bottles cold pressed rapeseed oil on its farm for leading retailers, has invested in the latest labelling technology to help build its multi-award winning brand.

  • Mine’s a pint please, landlord.

    Posted: 08/01/2008

    A village pub has launched its own micro brewery to give customers a taste of traditional beer. The Half Moon Inn at Willingham-by-Stow, between Lincoln and Gainsborough, has built a micro brewery on the premises which will produce over 67,000 pints of beer a year.

  • New technology advances traditional skills

    Posted: 26/09/2007

    Retford based Mike Maloney Butchers have doubled the size of their business and won new contracts since moving production to larger premises. In order to keep up with demand and capture new business opportunities, the company had an urgent need to invest in new technology.

  • Derbyshire veg firm pioneer new technology and training

    Posted: 26/09/2007

    Measham based AB Produce, who prepare and pack potatoes and vegetables, are using unique technology and training to help keep their award winning status and safeguard the local environment.

  • Cheese making turns a profit

    Posted: 17/07/2007

    Turning to cheese production has helped a Lincolnshire farm diversify, develop a viable business and create new handmade Lincolnshire cheeses.

  • New generation curries with real deep flavours

    Posted: 04/04/2007

    The homemade curry has come of age, says Nottingham company, Red Hot Cuisine.They produce recipe sized packets of authentic curry spices with instructions for home cooking traditional and popular Indian dishes.

  • New labels create clear advantage

    Posted: 07/03/2007

    Exporting from Lincolnshire to buyers in Asia, the Middle East and Far East is big business for Dunns of Long Sutton, who clean and package peas, marrowfats and beans from local farmers for wholesalers and food manufacturers around the world.

  • Buxton Spa Bakeries have second helpings

    Posted: 07/03/2007

    Buxton Spa Bakeries have returned to the East Midlands New Technology Initiative for grant and training support as their cake and tart business continues to grow.

  • Taste for fine beer good news for local brewery

    Posted: 14/02/2007

    Grantham based, Oldershaw Brewery, says drinkers’ taste for specialist beers is on the increase. They say that the small brewery sector is experiencing huge demand at a time when larger brewers are concentrating on their main lines of product.

  • New technology serves up 400% extra for food company

    Posted: 13/02/2007

    Nottingham based L and S Fine Foods have increased their food production by over 400%, adding new ranges of mouth-watering dishes to their menu.

  • Lincoln firm produces perfect peas

    Posted: 14/11/2006

    Perfect peas…that’s what Dunns of Long Sutton are aiming for. The agricultural and grain merchants have now invested in new, sophisticated metal detectors for their factory lines to weed out unwanted objects from their peas and beans.

  • Lincoln firm produces perfect peas

    Posted: 14/11/2006

    Perfect peas…that’s what Dunns of Long Sutton are aiming for. The agricultural and grain merchants have now invested in new, sophisticated metal detectors for their factory lines to weed out unwanted objects from their peas and beans.

  • Local pickles win national award

    Posted: 09/11/2006

    Mr Pitchfork’s Pickles have won gold and bronze awards in the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards.

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