News

03/02/10 Gower Cottage Brownies on Tour

We are coming to London once again, you can find us at The True Taste Award Winnners Welsh Market on Friday 26th February from 11-7pm at Golden Square London W1
Plenty of samples to be had, would love to see you all there!

May 7th -10th Real Food Festival, Earls Court London

I was lucky enough to have been chosen as one of the Poster Girl's for this year's festival, so you may see me coming to a billboard near you soon promoting the Real Food Fest.

Would love to meet new and old customers alike at this great Foodie Festival, hope to see you then.

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01/12/09 Fabulous News at Gower Cottage

Once again we won at this year's True Taste Awards gaining Silver for Online Retailer of the Year and the winning run continued with Swansea Woman of the Year where we won for Best New Business.

Here is a picture of a very happy Brownie Maker!

And we are also a finalist in this year's Swansea Life Awards for Best Local Produce voted for by all of my fantastic great customers, can we make it a Grand Slam?  We shall find out on Saturday 5th December....

I have heard from a lot of you that you saw me on interviewed live on BBC Breakfast regarding the Postal strike, I am very happy to tell you our new courier system is working extremely well and we shall continue to use them in order to provide you all with the best possible service that you expect to receive from Gower Cottage Brownies.

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13/10/09 News just in

It has been announced that we are finalists in this years True Taste of Wales Awards for Online Retailer of the Year as well as finalist for Swansea Bay Woman of the Year.

Another busy time for us ahead, I now have an addition to my team of one!  The lovely Andrea has joined me here at Gower Cottage and is on hand every morning to help you with your orders and handle any queries you may have.

You may have heard that due to the unsatisfactory service recently provided by Royal Mail, we have chosen to use a Courier Company, which guarantees next day delivery, in order to ensure the best service for you, this allows us to track all our gift boxes and we are extremely pleased to be able to re-assure you that your orders will be received on time.

We have also just installed our new credit card facility which means you can contact us on 01792 390011 and pay for your Gower Cottage Brownies over the phone.

Finally, you can now follow our day to day Brownie Business on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gowercottage where there are weekly competitions to win Free Boxes of Gower Cottage Brownies.

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

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30/07/09

We are please to launch our New Dairy Free Gower Cottage Brownies using vegan chocolate and soya spread.

We also have our "new look" checkout to hopefully make ordering Gower Cottage Brownies even easier for you as well as being able to see our beautiful new Gift Boxes made from recycled and fully recyclable materials.

Please note that the checkout does not process multiple orders to different addresses, and so please continue to just drop me a line at kate.jenkins@talk21.com and I can sort this out for you.

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12/06/09
Great News for anyone living and working in Cardiff, Gower Cottage Brownies are now available at Bob's Kitchen at Lobster Bob's Surf Shop in Queen Street, the perfect spot to get your daily chocolate fix!

After our success at The Real Food Festival we are heading back to London for the Taste of London show in Regent's Park on Friday 19th & Saturday 20th June, lots of free samples to be had!

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14/01/09 We're Coming to London!!  Come and meet us, see details below

Foodies in London will be able to celebrate St David’s Day in style this year thanks to the first dedicated Welsh produce market ever to be held in London.  True Taste award-winning producers will be showcasing the very best in Welsh food and drink on Friday 27 February 2009 allowing those who love good food and all things Welsh to stock up for their St David’s Day celebrations at the weekend. The market will take place at St Christopher’s Place, just off Oxford Street; from 12.30 – 7pm and producers will be on-hand to talk visitors through the artisan products on offer. 

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13/11/08 Result!!!
Fabulous news just in, Gower Cottage Brownies won at this years True Taste Awards, shown on ITV Wednesday 12th November, the evening was great fun and even better hearing our name being called out.  With the new packaging on its way, it looks set to be a very busy Christmas.

Also, Kate has been chosen as a finalist in the Swansea Bay Business Woman of the Year Awards, more posh frocks to sort out!  The Awards Dinner is on 26th November, once again,more news when we have it.

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We seem to be on a roll….not only did we win a Gold Star in this year’s Great Taste Awards, but we have now just been confirmed as finalists in this years True Taste Awards.

It should prove to be a nerve wracking evening in November to find out the results!  More news of course when we have it.

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I can also let you know that UK TV Food contacted me to say congratulations in coming in the Top 5 for Wales but that they had unfortunately taken the decision not to put us forward for this year’s programme!  So they have recognised our achievement by awarding us a Highly Commended Certificate.

A huge thank you to everyone who voted, although they will not disclose the number of votes we got, it is clear by the number of reviews that we received that we ranked very highly, achieving more reviews than all of their selected finalists put together!  Well done all of you.

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More news on our new branding, logo and packaging will be forthcoming as soon as we have it,  it will be all up and running ready for the Christmas rush.

The first people to receive the brand new packaging will of course be the winner and runners up in our competition that we launched to find our new name.

I really hope you will all like the new look, although be assured we will be retaining our home baked rustic image. And please remember that all of Kate’s home cooked brownies are always freshly cooked to order.