Chester Food and Drink Festival Announces Food Sponsor
H. N. Nuttall Limited will be the food sponsor again for this year’s Chester Food & Drink Festival. The five figure deal involves the Cheshire based UK food distributor being involved at every level. The H. N. Nuttall name will be added to the famous Festival logo, their services will be available before and during the Festival and their foods will be served at the Gala Awards dinner.
Damian Ditchfield, General Sales Manager at H. N. Nuttall Limited;
“This year’s Chester Food and Drink Festival is set to be the best ever and we are delighted to be the food sponsor for 2007 having already benefited from our sponsorship at the 2006 Festival. The Festival promotes all that is exciting about food and drink from our region and as the UK’s premier independent food wholesaler, based in Cheshire, we are once again thrilled to be associated with this excellent event.”
Stephen Wundke, chairman of the Chester Food and Drink Festival;
“This continuing sponsorship deal is fantastic news. We aim to hold a Food and Drink Festival that matches the best in Britain – a real community event that not only helps people discover all the healthy and top quality produce available locally, but inspires them to enjoy food and drink even more. Securing financial and professional support from a major company like H. N. Nuttall is a real boost and will help us attract visitors from far and wide..”
For more information about other events happening over the Chester Food & Drink Festival please visit www.chesterfoodanddrink.com.
Chester’s Food and Drink Festival is organised on behalf of Chester City Council with support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Visit Chester & Cheshire; the tourism board for Cheshire and Warrington, Cheshire County Council, Made in Cheshire, North West Fine Foods and the Rural Recovery Fund.
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H. N. Nuttall Ltd. are wholesale distributors of ambient, chilled, frozen and non-food to all sectors of the catering industry. We are proud to remain an independent family owned company which can trace its history back to the 1850s when it was a grocer’s shop in central Manchester. Over the years it changed from retail to wholesale food supply (to the catering trade) and became a limited company in 1940. Since the 1930s the company has been owned by the same family.
Nowadays all sectors of the catering industry are supplied but the main emphasis is on leisure catering (hotels, restaurants, pub restaurants, hospitals, universities, colleges and nursing homes). Deliveries are made as far a field as Glasgow down to the South Coast and include North Wales. Current turnover is £13 million.
H. N. Nuttall stock one of the widest ranges of ambient and chilled foods in the country. Deliveries are made using our own fleet of multi-temperature trucks. The operation is 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday.
Contact: Damian Ditchfield, General Sales Manager, H. N. Nuttall Ltd.
Tel: 0161 368 0331 Fax: 0161 367 8897 Email: Damian.Ditchfield@hnnuttall.co.uk
Address: Newton Moor Industrial Estate, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 4LF
Chester Food and Drink Festival Taste Marquee is planned for April 7th to 9th 2007, Easter Saturday to Easter Monday. The Marquee will contain over 100 retailers and growers with samples of Cheshire, North Wales, national and international produce, reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of Cheshire.
Celebrity chefs already lined up include TV chef extraordinaire & vegetarian expert Simon Rimmer, Robert Kisby newly appointed executive Head Chef at the recently refurbished Cock O Barton near Farndon and Michael Caines, one of Britain’s most acclaimed chefs and operational Partner and Director of ABode, the group of boutique hotels he co-founded.
The Food and Drink Fringe Festival will also take place around the City from April 6 to 15, 2007 with special events, restaurants, bars and hotels all helping to make Chester the focus of food and drink within the UK, with theme nights, special family offers and accommodation promotions.
Evening events include a Champagne tasting evening on Saturday April 7. A cocktail and mixology competition, attracting over 100 attendees last year, to be held on Sunday April 8 with competitors from bars across Cheshire. On Monday April 9 plans are for a combination of music designed to stimulate the taste buds and the Gala Dinner and awards ceremony will ensure 250 people sample a gourmet menu sourced from leading producers in the North West. This is likely to be held on Tuesday April 10 2007.
Special events include the Cheese Rolling on Wednesday, 7th March, the farmers market and the ale assize and medieval banquet on Saturday April 14th.
2006 Visitor Survey
16,000 people visited the Taste Marquee and £90,000 was spent there over the three days.
- 51 per cent of visitors came from a distance of more than 25 miles, making a total of 8,000 people brought into the City.
- 78 per cent of people surveyed said the event was good or excellent.
- 87 per cent of people surveyed said they were likely to return.
- Nearly 100 producers and exhibitors were on show in the Taste Marquee, bringing their own skills and produce from Cheshire and around the world to be part of the Festival.
- There were seminars and competitions in micro brewing, wines, sausages and cheeses and the opportunity to taste local paté, black pudding, bread, cereals, oils, pies, meat, fish, cheeses, chocolates, liqueurs and even a juice bar.
Festival brochures will be available across the City from March. Phone 01244 351609 for more details. For further information on the region go to www.visitchester.com.
More general information at www.chesterfoodanddrink.com
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Phil Brotherhood Mob: 07884 493370
Tel: 01244 330000
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