Keuken is a convenient way for busy Londoners to get healthy, nutritious take away meals and dinner kits via a wall of self-service machines installed directly in front of the kitchen, and contactless payment allow quick transactions without compromising on product quality. Keuken is now looking to setup a flagship store to bring this concept to the Shoreditch area and disrupt the growing ‘to-go’ food market.
The award-winning Great British Sauce Co. produce a range of quality sauces inspired by modern British flavours. Stocked in over 1,000 stores including Sainsbury’s and ASDA, the company has sold an average of over 500 bottles per day in the UK, SE Asia, Germany and Brazil since it launched in 2014. Great British Sauce Co. has been awarded CoolBrand status and were shortlisted in Richard Branson’s Pitch to Rich.
Nom is an ethical foods business which launched in July 2013 with a range of organic, vegan, health bars. Nom bars are made with innovative superfood ingredients like coconut oil, coconut palm sugar, oat bran and cacao - they don't contain any refined sugars, are free-from dairy and are made only with low GI, natural, alternatives to sugar. Nom Foods has secured listings at; Ocado, Tesco, Whole Foods, Holland & Barrett and Planet Organic.
Staks have developed a new innovative way of managing your daily nutrition intake. Their nutritional experts have devised a series of supplement plans for a variety of lifestyle and performance goals that come in single portion sachets inside a convenient, resealable, easy to carry pouch. Launched in Harvey Nichols’ flagship store in Knightsbridge, the company is striving to revolutionise $32 billion supplement market.
Savvy is an innovative sweet spread and dip range created from tahini and carob syrup. Savvy is stocked in independent stores across the UK and abroad. The range has won a taste-award and has proven appeal to the specialist food sectors including diabetics, free-from and the aged population.
Mara produces an award-winning range of shake-on seaweed seasonings – healthy salts – marketed as "Flavours of Scotland". Best Producer Finalist in 2015 BBC Food & Farming Awards, Mara® launched in Harrods in 2014 and is now on sale in M&S nationwide. Filling the Western demand for high flavour, healthy salt alternatives, Mara is now making inroads into the Asian market, where seaweed is part of the daily diet.
Multi-award winning La Favorita Delivered is Scotland’s largest and fastest growing independent Italian pizza delivery company. It was born out of a long established Edinburgh Italian restaurant group in 2011 and has grown exponentially since then. Having firmly cemented ourselves within the Edinburgh food scene with 4 busy stores and a loyal customer base, we’re now focused on opening 2 stores in Glasgow in early 2015, with plans to eventually open 50 stores throughout the UK.
Cauli Rice is a low calorie and low GI Rice Replacement. It has 80% fewer calories but with the same taste and satisfaction as ordinary white rice and is already being supported by industry experts. It is protected by a trademark, has had a successful patent search completed and is believed to be the first product of its kind. A manufacturing patent is being filed.
The 'Free From' market was valued at £365 million in the UK for 2014, and FEEL FREE has developed a range of gluten and wheat free foods that people miss from their diets, such as donuts. AIming to disrupt peoples' perceptions of gluten free food with better tasting alternatives, FEEL FREE is now looking to scale up production of their multi-award winning donuts with a dedicated production facility.
Coolcucumber TV is a regular food magazine programme for everyone who’s excited by good food – restaurant-goers and the trade – and brings to the viewer the same values as the respected Ackerman Guide of the 90’s but now on the screen. Restaurants are selected by the Ackerman Collection team and all are personally visited by Roy Ackerman. Restaurants only appear by invitation and do not pay to appear on the programme.
