FAIRWAY CELEBRATES THREE WINS AT THE 2022 CCM CHEFS’ OWN-BRAND AWARDS

We are delighted to have won three awards at this year’s Cash & Carry Management Chef’s Own-Brand Awards, which took place at The Royal Horseguards Hotel, in London, on January 10th.

Hosting the awards, Martin Lovell, managing director of Cash & Carry Management, told the guests that “Faced with cost pressures, foodservice operators are looking to their wholesalers to provide high-quality products at a good price. Own-brand products meet all these requirements, and these awards aim to raise the profile of own-brands even further by highlighting the best product in each category.”

The judges were Andrew Green, Chief Executive of the Craft Guild of Chefs, Matt Owens, Chairman of the Craft Guild of Chefs and Development Chef of Alliance Group and Jason Gordon, Catering Manager for the General Medical Council. The panel blind-tasted all the products.

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The winners are:

  1. Our Gluten-Free Naughty Chocolate Cake, which was complimented for its ‘sweet, light sponge and generous portions’.
  2. The fiery Chilli Powder was said to have a ‘nice vibrant colour and hot and spicy flavour.’ 
  3. Fairway Excellence Dairy Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream for its ‘visible vanilla seeds and great creamy flavour.’

We’re delighted to introduce our new probationary member Celtic Foodservices, based in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The company has a 10,000 sq ft warehouse and other local storage options and carries a diverse range of ambient, chilled, butchery, frozen and non-food lines. 

They are suppliers to the Welsh County Council, Welsh NHS and a diverse range of hospitality customers. They will link up with the two Fairway members that trade in Wales and hope these East-West and North-South linkages will provoke new business opportunities.

Single-Use Plastics Ban in England

A range of polluting single-use plastics will be banned in England from October 2023. From October, you won’t be able to buy these products from any business – which includes retailers, takeaways, food vendors and the hospitality industry.

The ban will include single-use plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, balloon sticks, and certain polystyrene cups and food containers.

According to estimates, England uses 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery — most of which are plastic — and 721 million single-use plates annually, but only 10% are recycled.

Plastic pollution takes hundreds of years to break down and seriously damages our oceans, rivers and land. It is also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, from the production and manufacture of the plastic itself to the way it is disposed of.

Fairway have been busy evaluating suppliers and have published details of the new supplier 4 Aces Foodservice Packaging, who can provide plastic-free products to replace the above.

FAIRWAY ASSURED MAYONNAISE IS NOW A MILK-FREE RECIPE

From February 1st, we will remove milk and mustard from our Mayonnaise recipes – Light, Thick & Creamy and Premium.

The only allergen present will be eggs, which are the second main ingredient of any mayonnaise recipe (except vegan).

This is great for customers with mustard and milk intolerance. While caterers will benefit from simpler allergen control and may even be able to reduce the total number of allergens handled on-site.

NEW "ASSURED RECIPES" AND PHOTO/VIDEO SHOOT

We produce content for ourselves and our members and have recently changed the way we choose topics by picking relevant trends from research agencies as the basis for new articles.

Where the topics are of exceptional value, and we can tie in Fairway Assured products, we commission our Michelin Star chef to prepare unique recipes (Assured Recipes) and a photo and video shoot.

The articles are published on Fairway and members’ websites and we attract potential customers by promoting the articles on social media and through email marketing.

You can browse the latest batch of Assured Recipes and the images and films are available on our Marketing Hub.

The Food Price Index, compiled by the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP), measures monthly changes in international food prices.

The FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 132.4 points in December 2022, down 2.6 points (1.9 percent) from November, marking the ninth consecutive monthly decline and standing 1.3 points (1.0 percent) below its value a year ago. The decline in the index in December was driven by a steep drop in the international prices of vegetable oils, together with some declines in cereal and meat prices, but partially counterbalanced by moderate increases in those of sugar and dairy. For 2022 as a whole, however, the FFPI averaged 143.7 points, up from 2021 by as much as 18 points, or 14.3 percent.

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