Midlands Business News

Derbyshire farm shop Croots has officially opened its new café and restaurant, Shires Eatery.

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A Shropshire artisan chocolatier has picked up a coveted national award in the most prestigious chocolate awards ceremony in the UK.

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Business support organisation The Food and Drink Forum has appointed a new commercial manager.

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A pie made by Derbyshire farm shop Croots has been rated as one of the best pies in the country at the British Pie Awards 2013.

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Visitors to Thoresby Market in north Nottinghamshire later this month are being treated to a tasty new fine food attraction. The market on Sunday 28th April will include a special area dedicated to fine food and drink. Run by East Midlands Fine Foods on behalf of the market organisers, the area will feature a selection [...]

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Derbyshire food and drink producers relished the chance to showcase their quality wares to a VIP audience at the Palace of Westminster this week.

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Branston, the UK’s leading supplier of potatoes, hosted a graduation event for Booker’s latest greengrocers at their Lincoln site. It was the culmination of Booker’s comprehensive greengrocer training programme.

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A new diner is already proving a success just weeks after it opened its doors to the public in Telford’s latest business and IT centre.

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A group of apprentices from Mondelēz International celebrated National Apprentice Week by swapping the office for a country park.

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SimplyFresh celebrated its second Annual Review Day & Gala Dinner at Stoneleigh Park in the beautiful Warwickshire countryside, on Thursday 21st March 2013.

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A Leicestershire brewery is raising a glass to the Food and Drink iNet (Innovation Network) after being given a grant to help with expansion plans.

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Rapidly expanding food chain Bagel Nash has chosen Nottingham as its flagship location to lead its growth across the Midlands, and will open a city centre store at the end of March.

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Organisers of a Food & Craft Festival to be held in Matlock Bath over the May Bank Holiday are offering discounted trading pitches for Derbyshire stallholders. The festival, which will be held on the riverside from Friday 3rd to Monday 6th May 2013, will feature a range of local, regional and world foods together with [...]

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A Leicestershire company has developed a crunchy new apple snack using fruit that would previously have gone to waste, thanks to a grant from the Food and Drink iNet. Omniceutica Limited has invented a process which transforms pulp from cider making, as well as surplus, ungraded or bruised fruit, into bite-sized servings. The firm, based [...]

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Now in its ninth year the Stone Food & Drink Festival, which is set to take place on Friday 4th, Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th October this year, looks set to welcome a host of new exhibitors in 2013.

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Birmingham based pan Asian eatery, Chop and Wok, is bucking the trend with national and international expansion, creating more jobs in their head office based in Birmingham city centre, as a result.

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Nottingham-based Clegg Food Projects has started work on three new schemes for the 2 Sisters Food Group, one of the UK’s leading food manufacturers.

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The Leicester food and drink sector is being given a boost with the launch of a new scheme to provide free business support to manufacturers working in the industry. Trade organisation The Food and Drink Forum is running the Leicester Food Specialist service, which aims to help eligible firms to grow and develop. The £94,500 [...]

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Shrewsbury based The Amazing Woodfired Pizza Company has come up with a new special heart-shaped pizza especially for Valentine’s night.

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Whisky Birmingham, the city’s first ever large-scale whisky festival, will take place on Saturday 2nd March at The Bond in the heart of Digbeth, Birmingham’s creative quarter.

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Walsall College Catering students received a master class in Indian cookery this week, when professional chefs from Five Rivers A La Carte restaurant visited the college’s Jerome’s Restaurant to show students how to prepare a range of Indian dishes.

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Food technical manager Richard Wigley has gained a Registered Scientist Award (RSci) from the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST).

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Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre is £1,100 better off thanks to the customers and staff of Croots Farm Shop near Duffield.

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The Swan With Two Necks in Longdon, Rugeley, will re-open its doors to the general public under new ownership on Friday 1st March, following an extensive refurbishment.

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East Midlands food businesses that make, distribute and sell chilled, ready-to-eat products are to be given help and advice to help them keep their products safe from Listeria. According to data from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) serious cases of laboratory-confirmed Listeria infection in the UK almost doubled between 2000 and 2009. In 2010 numbers [...]

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A Shropshire same-day courier company has clocked up around 10,000 miles to make sure the UK’s leading pie and snack manufacturer’s products reach their hungry customers so they can experience the “love at first bite” that it proudly promotes.

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East Midlands craft brewers interested in finding out about export opportunities to China are being urged to join a project which is developing a blueprint for carrying out business primarily in South East Asia.

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The Cadbury Foundation Volunteer Fund has awarded two Mondelēz International employees a £5,000 grant each, for the charity of their choice.

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Derbyshire farm shop Croots plans to expand its popular coffee shop to cater for demand from customers.

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East Midlands-based coffee specialist Cherizena is launching a new cider apple flavoured coffee to perk up the drinks menus in cafés, pubs, restaurants and hotels.

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With Cadbury World now open for a new year, the Bournville-based attraction has plenty to look forward to after celebrating a record year in 2012.

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Around 5,000 foodies will descend on Shrewsbury for the town’s first food festival.

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Progressive independent coffee shop Six Eight Kafé took another step forward in its never ending quest to improve the coffee offerings of the second city : by being voted one of the best coffee shops in the U.K. by a national paper.

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Homemade, the award-winning café bistro, has opened a new site in Sherwood, responding to Nottingham’s growing appetite for hearty, home-cooked food.

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As part of its ongoing involvement with West Midlands Business Action on Homelessness, Mondelēz International is continuing to show its commitment to the cause and help get homeless people in the area back into employment. The Bournville-based snacks company has been involved with the scheme for a number of years and hosts several work placements [...]

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Five employees from the home of Cadbury in Bournville have spent three days serving food to the homeless at SIFA Fireside in Digbeth. The volunteers from Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods) helped to support workers at the homeless charity during the busy lunch period; preparing and serving meals for around 100 people a day. Helen [...]

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The Food and Drink iNet has awarded a £10,000 grant to a Derbyshire labelling company to help the firm create a new labelling system for sandwich producers.

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Nottingham-based Clegg Food Projects has completed a £1.1million upgrade at a site of a leading dairy company to encourage greener ways of working.

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Independent catering company, Wilson Vale, has awarded its inaugural Wilson Vale Achievement Award 2012 to the catering team at Prestfelde School, an independent day/boarding preparatory school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

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Small local boxing clubs from in and around the Birmingham area, continue to benefit from the support of volunteer coaches and business sponsors who provide them with the opportunity to take part in regular competitive bouts

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As the nation prepares to tuck into mounds of Stilton this Christmas, researchers have pinpointed for the first time a particular yeast which enhances the smell of blue cheese.

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Local residents have welcomed the return of their favourite chippy with the reopening of Shards Fryer at the All Saints Square shopping centre , Shard End.

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A famous Midland canalside pub restaurant will be celebrating Christmas Italian-style with traditional Italian festive dishes alongside the usual yuletide fare.

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From the ashes of redundancy a former manager of a Midlands creamery has launched an online farm shop showcasing some of the best artisan foods Shropshire has to offer.

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Tipton meat ingredients specialist BHJ UK Protein Foods Ltd is to become known as BHJ Ingredients UK Ltd as from 1st January 2013.

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Shropshire-based celebrity chef Marcus Bean – best known for his frequent appearances on ITV’s This Morning – has bought a cookery school and bed and breakfast.

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Year 3 children from Quinton Church School in Birmingham thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pattie making cookery lesson with well-known local businessman, Wade Lyn, on Friday 23rd November.

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Ten years ago this month, Shropshire couple Kevin and Viki Brazier and their young family took over the Inn at Grinshill and having transformed it completely with every penny they have, they are celebrating 10 years at the top plus a host of accolades.

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Branston Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of potatoes, is showing its support for sport and has sponsored the Sports Volunteer of the Year award at the prestigious Lincolnshire Sports Awards 2012.

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Trade organisation The Food and Drink Forum has welcomed news that the expansion of a pioneering food and drink business park is a step closer today.

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