Earlier this year we welcomed two new team members, Kevin Rose and Alanta Hale, who will be your dedicated foodservice points of contact, with Kevin as our Foodservice National Account Manager and Alanta as Foodservice Telesales Executive.

Kevin has over 20 years of experience of business-to-business food wholesale, is a passionate ‘foodie’ and enjoys speaking about food and learning from experienced chefs about their latest creations.  Working in the food and drink industry for this time has given him a real love and understanding of Regional and British products. He prides himself on his reliability as an Account Manager and takes pride in his ability to respond to customer needs professionally and efficiently.

Since joining Curd & Cure, he has worked hard to develop and build a new range specifically designed for the hospitality sector in mind, which we will be launching later this month.  If you would like a preview of the range, please get in touch with Kevin on 07493 423547.

Alanta brings with her a passion for all things food and has thrown herself into her role at Curd & Cure, developing an in depth understanding of our product ranges.  She is on hand Sunday – Thursday to take orders and answer any queries you may have on the foodservice range. 

Alongside developing our foodservice range, we have also used our experience supplying our Retail & Deli customers over the past year to improve our service, including increased delivery areas and more regular deliveries, an additional Sunday telesales day, additional Monday delivery round and a new Whatsapp for business number.

Our delivery areas are now as follows, having also expanded to include Hampshire & South Essex:

Monday – All CT, TN, DA, BR, SE, ME, KT, RH, RG, GU & SW, RM, CM, IG, AL, WD & EN postcodes

Tuesday – ALL TN, ME, DA, BR, SE, SM, RM, IG postcodes & CT 1-5

Wednesday – All TN, CT, DA, BR, RH, RG, CR, KT, GU & BN postcodes

Thursday – All TN, ME, DA, BR, SM, SE, SW, RM, CM & IG postcodes

Friday – All TN, ME, CT, RH, RG, KT, GU, BN, DA, BR & SE postcodes

Saturday- All TN, ME, BN, GU, RG, CR, RH, SL, KT, PO, SO & SP postcodes

UK-wide delivery is available via courier as usual, please order by 1.30pm for next day delivery Tuesday – Friday (excludes frozen)
Minimum order is just £50 for deliveries on our own vans and £100 (carriage paid) for courier deliveries.

We have a friendly telesales team who can call you the day before your delivery day to take an order, or you can place your order by calling 01580 212949 or emailing orders@curdandcure.co.uk

Our phones are manned from 8.30am–5pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am-4.30pm on Friday & 10am – 5pm on Sunday, with the option to leave an order on the answerphone overnight.  We also have a new Whatsapp for business number, making it even easier to get in touch with our telesales team, who will be on hand during office hours to answer any product queries & provide a quick response as we know it’s not always easy to pick up the phone when you’re busy. Add 07423130950 to your contacts and use to contact us via Whatsapp.

We look forward to working with you and are always happy to discuss how Curd & Cure may be able to support you and your business, whether as a new customer or one of our much valued long standing customers.

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We would also like to say thank you for your support, suggestions, patience and kindness that you have shown our team who have worked so hard trying to deliver the best customer service possible. We are so grateful to be a part of such a supportive and friendly industry and are constantly looking at improvements we can make to help our customers and ways to introduce you all to new and inspiring ideas and products. 

Despite the challenges that last year brought, our team managed to produce and launch a new brochure in summer 2020. This included many new products that were hugely successful additions to our range. Following this we asked our customers to complete a customer survey to help guide us on what you would like to see next. It was so humbling to hear some of the positive stories for independent retailers in our industry that have come out of such a difficult time.

 Apart from the stories of success, we had many suggestions of new products you would like to see in our range. In the 2021 Retail and Deli Brochure we have paid attention to food trends and listened to what you have asked for and hope you are as excited as we are about the ranges we have chosen. These include many new local products, speciality cheeses, an expanded Deli Tub range, increase in vegan & plant-based products and a few other exciting treats that we just could not help bring in for you! All this alongside our core range of cheese, charcuterie and specialist food & drink.

 Thank you again for supporting us in to 2021, from all the Curd & Cure team.

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1 star: Simply Delicious. A food that delivers fantastic flavour – approximately 25% of entries will achieve this rating each year.
2 stars: Outstanding.  Above & beyond delicious – less than 10%of entries will receive this rating.
3 stars: Exquisite.  Extraordinarily tasty foods – around 2% of products are awarded 3-stars each year.  Don’t leave the shop without buying it!

We were split into tables of 3-4, each with a co-ordinator who would lead & write up our comments along with a couple of fellow judges.  In my afternoon session I was lucky enough to judge alongside Linda Farrand, co-founder of the Guild of Fine Foods & Great Taste Awards and endless in her knowledge when it comes to food & drink.

Each session lasts a couple of hours and we tasted a minimum of 20 products per session, ranging from bacon & sausage rolls to ice cream & honey, drinks and oils as well as what seemed like an endless supply of cakes to name just a few of the hugely varying products!

I was really impressed with how thorough and also how fair the judging process was.  Every product is tasted blind, with the entrant supplying details on what the product is and a brief description.  The products are also mixed, so we were never tasting one product directly against a similar product.  Although for the majority of products it is immediately obvious what they are, we had great fun guessing others and unveiling hot foods from under their foil, before hearing the full description, which at times was quite a surprise!

For everything judged, we would be looking at the appearance & presentation, the smell and of course the taste.  From here judges’ comments are collated and we would make a decision on whether each of us felt the product was 1, 2 or 3 star, or perhaps if there could be some tweaks which would push it up to star level if it was not quite there yet.

Should a product be judged as not achieving a star, it would be re-tasted by another table so as there is no ‘one strike and you are out’ as such.  Those products deemed to be a two or three star product would be tasted by many tables, ensuring that they really are up to the outstanding standard that the Great Taste Awards aim to recognise – I’m hopeful that we may have found & tasted a few 2 & 3 star products during the day and will be waiting eagerly to see the results!

Another element which makes these awards special is the variety of judges that take part on any one day.  To be in a room judging alongside people from all across the food & drink industry, all of whom are clearly extremely passionate about all things food & drink but equally are all excited to learn from one another and discover new food & drink was a real pleasure.  This ranged from food writers, journalists & marketeers, to producers, retailers & wholesalers such as Curd & Cure, as well as the founders themselves and many long-standing judges, with all of us bringing our own thoughts and ideas to add in to the Great Taste mix. A real privilege to have been a part of this year’s awards and I look forward to judging again in coming years.”

The Great Taste Awards are announced in August 2019 with one supreme champion being crowned in September. To find out more about the Great Taste Awards visit www.greattasteawards.co.uk

We’re proud to stock a wide range of star-winning products from producers including:
Olive Branch, Flower & White, Kentish Oils, Kentish Condiments, Kent Crisps, Creative Nature, Global Harvest, La Tua Pasta, Mustchup, The Great British Biscotti Co, Joe’s Tea Co and The Yorkshire Provender

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