Monkhouse Marketing: The Guild of Fine Food

The Guild of Fine Food

SPECIALIST MARKETING SERVICE

Monkhouse Marketing is providing members of The Guild of Fine Food with a specialist Marketing, PR, Design & Online Development service.

The Guild is the UK Trade Association for anyone making or selling speciality food & drink; currently around 1,300 members.

The Guild of Fine Food:

Delicatessens, fine food halls & farm shops
Speciality food producers, from cheesemakers to chocolatiers
Importers & distributors of gourmet foods from around the world
Suppliers of equipment & services to support the fine food sector

Organisers of the annual Great Taste Awards & World Cheese Awards. Provide specialist training regarding cheese & charcuterie.
The Guild communicates to retailers, producers & suppliers through the “industry voice”, Fine Food Digest magazine.
Members enjoy a comprehensive range of membership benefits.

Guild Awards & Events – 2011:

Hospitality Show: 24th – 26th January 2011
The Farmshop and Delhi Show: 27th February – 1st March 2011
Great Taste Awards Judging: May 2011
Real Food Festival: 5th-8th May 2011
Harrogate Speciality Food Show: 26th – 27th May 2011
Speciality Food Show: 4th-6th September 2011

Food, Farming & Marketing:

Clare Downes has always been passionate about “proper” food, having been brought up on the Appleby family dairy farm. Her grandparents Lance and Lucy Appleby (MBE’s) began making Appleby’s Cheshire at Hawkstone Abbey Farm in 1952. Her parents started direct marketing to retail & wholesale customers in the 1980’s. Clare’s childhood revolved around cheese! This background led to a career in the food & drink sector. Please visit the Profile page for further information – www.monkhousemarketing.co.uk/profile

In 2000 Clare returned to Shropshire & started Monkhouse Marketing. The business is located on the sheep & arable farm, where she lives with her family.
Clients cover other business sectors but all have some overlap or link to food, drink & agriculture.

Working Together:

Through this relationship the Monkhouse team hopes to assist Guild members in taking their businesses forward. At the same time Monkhouse Marketing clients can understand the benefits for specialist producers & retailers of Guild membership.

For more information please visit – www.finefoodworld.co.uk