A frozen Belgian adventure

On Monday 17th July, two of our buying team colleagues took a trip over to Belgium to visit a couple of our frozen produce suppliers.

Organised by Caterforce, the buying and marketing group to which we belong, the trip was an educational one so we can gain a greater understanding about production, supply and relationships between our businesses.

Charlotte Walker, Buying Manager, and Emelia Stewart, Junior Buyer were invited to visit the fields and factories of d’Arta and Clarebout, both producers of our own brand high quality frozen foods.

The first day involved a visit to d’Arta.

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Pigs-in-blankets aren’t just for Christmas!

Once we started handmaking our own pigs-in-blankets back in 2017, we certainly couldn’t have predicted how popular they would become.

They don’t just sell at Christmas and we’ve come to realise that people love them all year round!

In January of this year, we found ourselves in the midst of a remarkable surge in demand. Sales from January to June were up 161% compared to the previous year; a testament to the growing popularity of pigs-in-blankets being everyone’s favourite at any time of the year.

The numbers speak for themselves:

* January to June 2020: 94 cases – 9,400 individual pigs-in-blankets

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