Sweetening up the look
To capitalise on the growing market for sweeteners, Canderel has updated its packaging and improved its formulation.
The company is aiming this new look and improved taste at the 3.65 million people in the UK, who are lapsed low calorie sweetener users.
The brand is being supported by an advertising spend of over £1 million.
Canderel recently joined forces with celebrity chef Phil Vickery who has created some recipes using Canderel.
www.canderel.uk.com
Canderel
Fill up a firework
Brighten up coffee service with the new Fireworks range from Dudson.
This bright and colourful range consists of two sizes of mugs 10oz/28cl and 12oz/34cl, as well as three sizes of cup 31/2oz/9.5cl, 71/2oz/21cl and 11oz/31cl.
Available in four colours Midnight Blue, Marigold, Flame and Dark Green. This can be used as a mix 'n match with the solid Paintbox colours or plain White.
Dudson
Coffee mobile
First Choice Coffee has developed a new Smart Car mobile coffee unit, fitted with the automatic Black & White bean-to-cup espresso machine. This new unit means that coffee can be served in virtually any location.
First Choice Coffee will supply the Smart Car Concept, branded and colour coded to the customer's specification for a cost of £22,000.
The Smart Car measures 2.5 metres in length and is suitable for event catering and supplying coffee in all kinds of locations such as shopping centres, stadiums, exhibition halls and office buildings.
The unit takes minutes to set up and when coffee service is over, the unit is simply driven away.
First Choice
Coffee without the hard grind
The Amie espresso machine, introduced by Espressione, produces espresso from individual 7g pods of ground coffee. These pods are placed in the machine's special brew head, thus eliminating all the mess and complications of grinding and tamping coffee from beans.
The Amie is a compact unit with a 1.3 litre boiler fed from a 5 litre tank. It operates off 13 amps, is automatic and has both steam and hot water nozzles.
Espressione UK Ltd
Shrinking sugar
Napier Brown has changed the size of its Whitworths sugar sticks from 3.8g to 3.5g in a move designed to lower unit costs. The design of the sticks will remain the same.
The new size white and demerara sugar sticks are now available in 1000 portion boxes.
Napier Brown
An apology to Bravilor UK from Allied Drinks
A recent advertisement placed in this publication by Allied Drinks to promote its new Kenco "III" cappuccino machine used an unauthorized image of a Bravilor Mondo and suggested that the Kenco "III" was a suitable alternative.
Allied accepts that the advertisement was wholly misleading as the Bravilor Mondo is not a cappuccino machine, therefore any comparison was inappropriate.
Allied Drinks would like to issue an unreserved apology to Bravilor UK for using the image without permission and for any confusion the advert may have caused.
Fair shares for all
Cafédirect has been blazing the trail for ethical trading in the UK since 1991 and has achieved remarkable growth, despite the continued market domination by multi-nationals in the coffee and tea sectors.
The company buys all its product direct (hence the brand name) from the growers. It is the only hot beverage company in the UK to guarantee that 100% of its range carries the Fairtrade mark and is committed to its mission to set new standards for commercial trading in developing countries.
Fairtrade means that growers always receive a fair price for their crops. Cafédirect's 'Gold Standard' trading policy goes beyond the traditional basic principles of Fairtrade:
* For coffee, if market prices go above the minimum standard Fairtrade price, Cafédirect pays an extra 10% social premium on top of the market value, which goes directly to the co-operative, to be spent as per members'requirements.
* For tea, a premium is paid on top of the auction price and Cafédirect pays a higher premium than the Fairtrade premium.
* For cocoa, Cafédirect pays a premium on top of the world market price of $250 per metric tonne, which is higher than the Fairtrade premium of $150 per metric tonne.
The 'Gold Standard' also offers unique business partnership programmes with 32 co-operatives spanning 10 countries across the major coffee and tea growing regions of the world. These programmes are tailor-made to each organisation, providing producers with advice, market information, and management support - all the elements required when making premium products.
See below for price comparison:
COFFEE (Prices correct at close of trade 19 December 2002)
Arabica
World Market Price = 61.55 US cents/lb
Cafédirect Pay = 126 US cents/lb
% more paid by Cafédirect = 104.71%
Robusta
World Market Price = 35.74US cents / lb
Cafédirect Pay = 106 US cents / lb
% more paid by Cafédirect = 196.56%
TEA (Prices correct as at 19 December 2002 and calculated on an exchange rate of £1=Euro1.56)
Fairtrade Premium = Euro 0.5 (32.05p) per kg
Cafédirect Premium = 40p per kg
% more paid by Cafédirect = 24.8%
COCOA (Prices correct at close of trade 6 December 2002)
World Market Price = 1,947 US$/metric tonne
Cafédirect Pay = 2,197 including US$ premium/metric tonne
% more paid of Cafédirect = 12.8%
Fairtrade Coffee
Let all the flavour flow
Tate & Lyle has launched Flavouring Syrups which can be used in place of conventional sugar syrups to liven up cocktails and fruit smoothies, as well as fresh fruit desserts and sparkling waters.
They are available in five varieties - Strawberry, Raspberry, Banana, Cherry and Coconut and packaged in non-breakable 750ml PET bottles.
These syrups complement the existing range of Coffee Syrups in several varieties including Vanilla, Hazelnut and Irish Cream.
Tate & Lyle