The Family-run Berkshire business, Mortimer Chocolate Company is celebrating after beating multi-national competition to win a “Highly Commended” in the 2018 Quality Food Awards!
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Press Release for 2018 Quality Food Award
Mortimer Chocolate is as an ideal Christmas Hot Chocolate. It featured in the @Telegraph Christmas Inspiration pull out, with The Telegraph on Sunday 4th Nov.
Our wonderful 70% cocoa solids chocolate makes a luxury hot chocolate and is an ideal Christmas gift, especially as you can make fantastic brownies with it as well.
Are you someone who has Christmas all wrapped up by December or do you not even think about it until the Advent Calander comes out?
The Quality Food Awards were announced last night and our Salted Caramel Drinking Chocolate came 2nd in the tea and other hot beverage category. Available to buy at BigBarn.
Our Salted Caramel Drinking Chocolate is in the finals of the Quality Food Awards – Tea and other Hot Beverages category. We are up against Morrisons and Asda, so no pressure!
As part of the awards we were invited along to the CO OP Headquarters in Manchester to sample to their staff and present to their buyers. We had such wonderfully positive feedback. Thank you to @coopuk and @QualFoodAwards.
Hot Chocolate Finals. Our West African Chocolate is being judged today in the finals of the @deliciousmag Produce Awards. Head judge is #GBBO Prue Leith. Good job it is vegan as it is #VeganWeek on @BritishBakeOff.
Available at Amazon and BigBarn
Find out more about the awards: Delicious Magazine Produce Awards 2018
How do you make the perfect cup of drinking chocolate? Here's some help from master chocolatiers @MortimerChoc @BBCBerkshire pic.twitter.com/huuF3uHthL
— BBC Berkshire (@BBCBerkshire) October 25, 2017
We are proud to announce we have been awarded Best Specialist Chocolate Maker in the 2017 Business Innovator Awards.
http://www.cv-magazine.com/2017-business-innovator-awards
Last week, a spokesperson from Mars Confectionery was warning that the price of chocolate in the UK would rise in the near future unless a favourable Brexit trade agreement was made. The reason for this being that the company have invested in the past in factories on the continent and Mars is not the only company to do this, the US-owned Cadbury business and Nestle’s also use Continental factories to make a great deal of confectionery that is for sale in the UK. Kraft closed the Cadbury factory in Keynsham soon after taking over and many of the popular Cadbury chocolates and drinks are now imported from the continent.
In addition, many chocolate products available in the UK boast about the fact that they are made using Belgian chocolate. Fine, but is it any good? There is a lot of very fine confectionery available in Belgium, but in order to have Belgian chocolate featuring on so many of our sweet products available here in the UK, it has to be made in industrial quantities and so it simply can’t be as good as some fine chocolates: but the marketing people have done a great job in making people believe that Belgian factories make the best chocolate!
So, with Brexit threatening harsher trade deals for the UK and the pound weakening against foreign currencies such as the Euro, is the price of our chocolate really going to go up? Well, yes and no!
YES, if you buy chocolate produced on the Continent, where companies reporting their profits in Euros and paying their staff in Euros want more and more pounds, then yes, especially if the UK cannot negotiate a favourable trade deal.
But NO if you buy chocolate and chocolate products that are made right here in the UK!
There are still a few British companies that have the skills to buy their own cocoa and make fabulous chocolates and chocolate drinks. So, don’t listen to the corporate doom-mongers! Don’t worry about Brexit trade negotiations not protecting chocolate imports! Instead, go out and find some of the great chocolate producers here in the UK and don’t worry about the Euro-rate!
Author: Adrian Smith
