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Who ate all the pies?

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

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As we munch our way through British Pie Week statistics from CGA Foodservice show how the nation’s love of pies remains as strong as ever.

Pubs and bars have upped their sales of pies by 3.8% in value terms over the past 12 months, while restaurants have seen sales rise 1.9%.via GIPHY

Over a third of pies bought by caterers are purchased by the cost sector, while pie sales through B&I are on the wane, representing 10% of sales.

shutterstock_395322316 steak pie resizedSteak pies are the most popular although their 38.3% share of sales has decreased slightly year-on-year, while chicken pies are becoming more popular with 25% of sales, up 4.2% year-on-year.

Sales of savoury pastries and pies are typically at their peak in the paramount source month of November and September, with March the third top month for pie-eating!

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Yorkshire-born celebrities doing it properly with Yorkshire Tea

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

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Sir Michael Parkinson, the Brownlee Brothers and award-winning indie rockers, the Kaiser Chiefs are playing up to their playful Yorkshire roots in three new tongue-in-cheek adverts with Yorkshire Tea.

The new £7m campaign has been designed to position Yorkshire Tea as the place ‘where everything’s done proper’.

The three adverts show the celebrities in a variety of comic scenarios aimed at demonstrating Yorkshire Tea’s unwavering passion and uncompromising dedication to doing things properly with the adverts filmed on site at Yorkshire Tea’s HQ in Harrogate featuring employees from across the business.

Kevin Sinfield, Yorkshire Tea’s head of brand marketing, said: “Two years ago, we took our philosophy of properness and a fair bit of quirky Yorkshireness to the small screen through what was a hugely successful Brewtopia campaign.

“Now we’re taking our passion and commitment to doing things properly to the next level through our biggest marketing campaign to date. We want to challenge the general perceptions of consumers towards the tea category by focusing on the key values we share with them.

“We’re extremely proud of the new adverts; they’re fun, engaging and entertaining and with well-known celebrities at the forefront, they will drive our mission to make properness culturally famous.”

The trio of new adverts, produced with creative agency Lucky Generals, launched last Saturday 4 March during The Voice TV programme on ITV.

Brita raises £2,000 for industry charity Hospitality Action

03 Friday Mar 2017

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Richard Vanstone Neville UK, Glenn Roberts Brita Professional and Penny Moore Hospitality Action

Water Filter Company Brita Professional has raised £2,000 for industry charity, Hospitality Action (HA), via their recently organised Purity C Steam Cycling Challenge held at this year’s Great Hospitality Show, in London.

The challenge was kick started by National Chef of the Year 2013, Hayden Groves, and saw over 100 visitors jump on the bike to beat each others times.  The task – to see how far they could cycle in 180 seconds – the average time it takes to exchange the new Purity C Steam cartridge, and a nod to HA’s 180th anniversary.

At the end of the event, it was Richard Vanstone, sales controller, Neville UK who raced to victory with an impressive 1.3 miles cycled in 180 seconds. Richard receives £250 worth of vouchers for a Michelin-starred restaurant of his choice.

Penny Moore, chief executive of Hospitality Action, said of the challenge: “We are delighted that BRITA chose to support our charity in this way, and are very grateful to everyone who took part in the challenge. The money raised will go directly towards helping those in our industry who have fallen on hard times and really will make an enormous impact on our beneficiaries’ lives.”

Glenn Roberts, sales director, Brita Professional, added: “We’d like to thank everyone who took part in our event at the show. We’re thrilled to have raised so much money for Hospitality Action and to have joined them in celebrating 180 years as the industry’s leading charity.”

Visitor’s donations amounted to £1,000 which were matched by Brita.

Hayden Groves gears up for Three Tours charity challenge

Hospitality Action celebrates 180 years