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Brand Spotlight: Cornish Sea Salt
With truly natural products taken from the Cornish coastline, Cornish Sea Salt is a local company with a passion for creating quality sea salt at their premises on the Lizard Peninsula. The company was founded in 2004 by Tony Fraser, who upon discovering broken clay pots once used by Cornish salt makers, developed the idea for reinvigorating the practice and turning it into a business.
Today's method of creating sea salt is not as simple as it was...Read More
Brand Spotlight: Furniss
For those who are fond of a biscuit or two with their tea, there is one brand in particular that might be of interest. They're one of our favourites here in the Simply Cornish Hampers office and we're sure they'll be yours too. Our latest brand spotlight features Furniss.
Established in 1886, Furniss of Cornwall is a traditional brand that is as authentic as they come. It all started in Truro, where John Cooper Furniss opened a teashop and served freshly...Read More
Brand Spotlight: Sisley’s Preserves
Those of you who have enjoyed our cream tea hampers will be familiar with our spotlight brand this week. Their delicious Cornish strawberry preserve is the perfect choice of jam for a cream tea – I'm of course talking about Sisley's Cornish Preserves. A family run business founded right here in Cornwall in 2003, Sisley's are committed to creating the finest sweet and savoury preserves. The company was started by Wendy Sisley and her late husband Barrie, and new owners Laura and Jessica...
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Luxury Prize Awaits For 10,000th Customer
It has been an exciting year for Simply Cornish Hampers and we have seen a fantastic growth in popularity of both the website and store. We would like to say thank you to all who have made in-store and online orders by offering a great prize for our 10,000th customer. It has been a very busy year for us and we have put a lot of energy into brand management, marketing, supplier relationships and of course the online E-Commerce partnership with ICO3. As a consequence of our efforts we have...
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Lemonade fit for royalty!
Now here's an interesting bit of news that we missed! During the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, on the 3rd June, Cornish Orchard's delicious pressed lemonade was served as a non-alcoholic drink! What makes this even more special is that it was on-board the Royal Barge; the Spirit of Chartwell, as lead a flotilla down the Thames. If that's not enough, the lemonade was then added to a hamper that was presented to the Duchess of Cornwall at the Royal Cornwall Show! Cornish...
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Nominate someone for the Plymouth Food Awards!
Nominations for the Plymouth Food Awards have opened! The awards recognise organisations in Plymouth, and across Devon and Cornwall, who have benefitted individuals and organisations across the city, assessed against how they meet the aims of the Plymouth Food Charter. While most of the awards are for organisations, schools, and eateries in Plymouth, there are two awards that we're very interested in. Best Producer and Best Local Food Product are open to any farmer, grower or food producer...
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