Food & Drink Network Success Stories
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted: 17/07/2007
Turning to cheese production has helped a Lincolnshire farm diversify, develop a viable business and create new handmade Lincolnshire cheeses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted: 09/11/2006
Mr Pitchfork’s Pickles have won gold and bronze awards in the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards.