Deli of the Year http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog Deli of the Year Blog Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:28:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 We’re back. http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/2012/03/were-back/ http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/2012/03/were-back/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:52:16 +0000 Admin http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/?p=86 Continue reading →]]> Olives Et Al’s Deli of the Year competition will be open for nominations and votes on 24 March, and it will once again highlight “great delis” and actively support the best places to buy deli food in the UK.

In the last two years 20,000 people across the UK have voted for their favourite deli and almost 700 nominated delis have benefitted from the opportunity to shout about themselves, generating press coverage, raising their profile and bringing people through the door.

Last year’s Deli of the Year winner, David Greenman of Arch House Deli, Clifton Village, Bristol, said: “In the month we won Deli of the Year we recorded a 45% increase in sales and at least half of this was directly attributable to the award.

In the months that followed, this increase remained high with sales up over a third throughout the rest of the year and this continued throughout January this year. Winning the award was key to this increase, through the extra publicity we gained which brought new people through the door – the good thing is that we have managed to keep them as customers”

Nominations for Deli of the Year 2012 can be made at www.olivesetal.co.uk and the winning deli will be announced at the Great Taste Awards in London in September 2012. The winning deli, plus runners up, will win a trip to Spain where they will be immersed in the food culture of Extremadura – a region famous for its food – from olives to Iberico ham.

]]> http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/2012/03/were-back/feed/ 0 Deli Of The Year 2011 Regional Winners… http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/2011/09/deli-of-the-year-2011-regional-finalists/ http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/2011/09/deli-of-the-year-2011-regional-finalists/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:34:06 +0000 Olives Et Al http://www.delioftheyear.co.uk/blog/?p=33 Continue reading →]]> A HUGE well done to all of the Olives Et Al Deli Of The Year 2011 REGIONAL WINNERS. To go from one of 400 nominated delis, to the best of the whole region is no mean feet! So, here they all are, in a nice neat list. Do go and pay them a visit if you’re in the area – they are all amazing and very worthy of your support. Then pop onto www.facebook.co.uk/olivesetal and let us know what you think…

LONDON
(There were two London finalists as they were both amazing and the judges just couldn’t decide – lots of stamping of feet and things like that…)

WEST MIDLANDS

NORTHERN IRELAND

  • ARCADIA DELICATESSEN
    378 Lisburn Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim. BT9 6GL.
    02890 381779. www.arcadiadeli.co.uk

SOUTH EAST

EAST MIDLANDS

NORTH WEST

  • MONKEY TREE DELICATESSEN: 4 West Street, Wigton, Cumbria. CA7 9NP. 01697 342779. www.monkeytree.eu

SCOTLAND

WALES

NORTH EAST

A big thanks on behalf of all of the delis who were nominated and voted for through out the competition. A few million people over the UK have now read about, visited and or voted for their local deli as a result of the competition – which is what it’s all about and us lot here at Olives Et Al just wanted to say a big thank you to you all for getting on the back of Deli Of The Year and supporting all our amazing delis out there!

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