Friday, 22 April 2016

The National Convenience Show - The Best New Idea!


This week has been a particularly good one for us here and we feel like a celebration is in order!

This week we attended the National Convenience Show at the NEC in Birmingham. The show features over 600 innovative brands and is an essential event for anyone in the Convenience industry, looking to drive their business forwards and find out about upcoming innovations in the marketplace. The Pelican Rouge Roaster team were on the stand in full force, meeting visitors, distributing samples and generally doing what they do best; talking about coffee!

 

 
The event was full of highlights and our own Steven May lead atalk in The Retailer Hub, teaching visitors how to make ‘perkier’ profits from their coffee offering.  He also lead a ‘Pepsi Challenge’ style tasting session and was on hand to offer visitors advice on where to invest in their coffee businesses.

However by far the greatest highlight was winning the award for the 2016 Best New Idea.

There were hundreds of suppliers in attendance and exhibitors were invited to submit their entries beforehand for their ‘best new idea.’ This could be a concept, service or product. We entered the competition with our new retail style coffee packs and Nespresso compatible capsules.

The winner was voted upon in the run up to the show and during the event by visitors and retailers. We were delighted to make it into the final three alongside Haagen Dazs and Lavazza Coffee. All 3 had to present why our “idea” was the best and a little more around the Company before the envelope was opened and the Winner announced…

PELICAN ROUGE COFFEE ROASTERS!

 


 We were all delighted with the result but none more so than our International Sales Director, Adam Caulfield.

“I was proud to witness for myself the launch of Pelican Rouge retail packs into the UK market. The whole team have done a fantastic job at the National Convenience Show and should be very happy with their efforts, well done!!”

Congratulations team! Coffee Cocktails all Round!

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