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Radnor Hills Expands Heartsease Farm Range

The Great Taste award winning Heartsease Farm range is expanding, with two brand new flavours being launched just in time for summer.

William Watkins, Radnor Hills Managing Director said, “Our range of premium sparkling pressés takes its name from our family farm. They are crafted from a blend of our pure Radnor Hills spring water and 100% natural ingredients, from zesty and zingy to fruity and floral. Delicious to drink on their own or add a sparkle to your favourite cocktails by using as a mixer.

We are excited to welcome Apple & Pear and Apple & Rhubarb to the Heartsease Farm collection and think they are going to go down a storm this summer!”

Cooks &Co Debuts Vegan Stuffed Peppers

The award-winning range of store cupboard ingredients, is launching its first vegan stuffed pepper, available in 220g jars. The new Cooks&Co Vegan Stuffed Red Peppers are perfect for retailers wishing to offer customers a vegan alternative to the popular feta or ricotta stuffed peppers. They have a sweet ‘n’ spicy flavour with a vegan ‘cheese’ alternative filling and are perfectly suited to antipasti platters, grazing boards or as a snack.

Anne-Marie Cannon, Brand Controller, Cooks&Co said: “There is clearly a growing appetite for vegan alternatives from shoppers and we are excited to be adding these Vegan Stuffed Red Peppers into our Cooks&Co range to meet this demand.”

Sustainability

New Research Reveals Bakery Sustainability Trend

Incorporating attitudes and opinions from 2,000 consumers across the UK, ‘Prove It: The sustainable future of baked goods’ is a deep dive on sustainability trends, the top sustainability credentials for consumers, and how these affect their buying decisions.

Stéphanie Brillouet, Délifrance marketing director said: “We carried out this research to make sure we’re moving the needle in the right direction, while discovering what sustainability means to baked goods consumers in the UK today. It appears we’re on the right track, and that sustainability is becoming less of a ‘nice to have’ and more of an ‘essential’ for food operators and retailers.”

For more information or to read other reports such as the Prove it: The Irish Breakfast report visit delifrance.com

Employee Wellbeing

71% of consumers claim to be aware of the carbon footprint of their baked goods of consumers would like to know more about the sustainability of their baked goods