24 Aug 2020
Fudge Kitchen Oxford – The Hunt is on!
Fudge Kitchen's Broad Street shop to close on Monday 31st August, as the hunt for new premises continues …
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Fudge Kitchen has been a much-loved fixture on Broad Street for over 10 years; hand making the finest, freshest, multiple award-winning fudge there on a daily basis, for locals and visitors.
Before the pandemic, however, the building was scheduled to be sold, and the search began for a new fudge home. Unfortunately, this was cut short by the lockdown and, with lease expiring, Fudge Kitchen Oxford will be temporarily homeless after closing the doors of the Broad Street shop for the last time on Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August.
Says Oxford shop manager, Toby Lee, “We will be very sad to leave our Broad Street home and to not be seeing our local fudge friends while we search for new, suitable premises. We want to say an enormous thank you to all our customers who have supported us during our time here, as well as the local community and everyone who became a part of our Fudge Family. We look forward to announcing more news soon.”
So, fill your fudge boots with Oxford-made fudge before Monday 31st August and sign up to receive special 'Friends of Oxford Fudge' Special Offers you can use to get the same delicious handmade fudge online at www.fudgekitchen.co.uk until we find a new home.
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Editors' Notes …
- Fudge Kitchen started as Jim Garrahy's Fudge Kitchen in Blackpool in 1983. In 1995, the company was bought by MD Sian Holt, who expanded into seven still thriving shops in Bath, York, Cambridge, Canterbury, Windsor, Edinburgh and Oxford, before steering the brand into a new, exciting wholesale phase of its life, with the development in 2012 of the Gourmet Butter Fudge Their 60+ products, across a menu of some 40 flavours, have racked up seventeen Great Taste Awards and include Drinking Fudge, Fudge Sauces, Gift Hampers, themed gift selections, Sliders, Sharing Squares, Fudge Making kits and the Delectables range of Brittles and Caramels. All are available online at fudgekitchen.co.uk and selected lines are available through over 200 stockists nationwide, including Selfridges, Harrods, Fenwicks, Harvey Nichols and independent speciality stores. Fudge Kitchen also supply some of the UK's most luxurious hotels, Wembley Stadium events and make own label premium confectionery products for Selfridges, Harrods and Rococo, amongst others. They export to up to 20 countries which have spanned Scandinavia to the Falkland Islands. Digital brochure: http://www.fudgekitchen.co.uk/files/FudgeKitchenCatalogue.pdf
- Fudge Kitchen supply their products direct, but also export through European distributors Bommel, in Holland (http://www.bommelsconserven.nl), Der Suesse Regenbogen, Karsten Ebert, Gross-u Einzelhandel (https://dersuesseregenbogen.de) and Dovetale Collections, Canada (https://dovetalecollections.com).
- The boasty bit: Fudge Kitchen are proud to have received 22 Great Taste Awards in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. They were named Ambient Manufacturing Company of the Year at the 2014/15 industry Oscars, the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards, and won the same award in 2020; and MD Sian Holt was awarded a Special Award for Leadership and Vision by Produced in Kent and sits on the board of Produced in Kent.
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weblinks …
w: www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
f: www.facebook.com/fudgekitchen
tw: @fudgekitchen
blog: www.fudgeblog.co.uk
instagram: fudgekitchen_uk
linked in: sian-holt-6b71a02b
press enquiries …
Lisa Jones, Dandelion PR
t: 07968 963456
tw: @dandylisa
