Most well known for their Dutch Cake, the Mrs Crimble’s range has increased to add other gluten and wheat-free products. At Cotswold Fayre we are finding this market to be the most rapidly growing sector at present.
Like us, Mrs Crimble’s started life selling products in and around London, from the back of a small fleet of vans. Today they can be found in independent farm shops, health stores and delicatessens. (more…)
The headline story on BBC 5 Live on the way to work this Monday morning was: “Government Minister tells people to stop wasting food and ignore best before dates”. Later on in the piece the BBC correspondent showed her ignorance by not knowing the difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates. (more…)
I spent some of the weekend working on our new customer rewards scheme. More of that later, but first an extraordinary experience of customers not getting rewarded on the CrossCountry train service from Exeter to Birmingham New Street on Friday morning. I got on the train at Cheltenham on my way to the second day of the Ashes Test at Edgbaston. (more…)