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The Cornish Crisp's Summer Newsletter 2011

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Published: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:29:11 GMT

Cornish Crisp Company on a roll to reuse and recycle

In continued efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle waste where possible, The Cornish Crisp Company has been collecting cardboard inner tubes from rolls of tapes and packaging film for the past year and this week delivered over 100 to Cornwall ScrapStore in Liskeard for reuse by charities and children’s and community groups in arts, craft and other projects.
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A box of the large cardboard tubes was immediately snapped up by the Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary based near Looe who will use the tubes as toys for the monkeys and also to hide food in to make feeding more interesting for the animals. Rachael Clayton from The Cornish Crisp Company said: "We try and reduce our waste and our environmental impact as much as possible. So, instead of putting these cardboard tubes in our recycling bin, it is lovely to think they will be put to good use and created into something else before being recycled." The Cornwall ScrapStore's mission is to take unwanted materials from industry and pass them on to community groups, such as schools, playgroups and charities who then use the materials for art and play activities. The work that Cornwall ScrapStore undertakes helps prevent useful items going to landfill thus helping the environment, saving both industry and the ommunity of Cornwall money by providing free materials and, stimulates creativity within education. The Cornish Crisp Company was highly commended by judges in the 2009 and 2010 Cornwall Sustainability Awards for its social and environmental credentials as a small business. In 2010 The Wild Future Monkey Sanctuary were named as runners up in the award for Best Managed Medium business. 18 May 2011

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The Cornish Crisp arrives in the north!

The Cornish Crisp, described by the Times as having a conscience, has arrived in Newcastle. Country Whey in Jepson has become the first outlet in Newcastle and also the most northern stockist of The Cornish Crisp, a carefully hand-cooked potato crisp made in the south east of the county from potatoes grown on farms local to the company's factory in Kelly Bray.

Linda Campbell, who recently took over management of Country Whey in January said: "To find a fantastic crisp for the shop I tasted lots of crisps and they stand out from the crowd due to texture and taste. I haven't tasted a nicer crisp. I tested it with children and adult and it was the same consensus. My simple rule is that I taste everything and if it tastes good I will sell it. If it is just ok I don't!"

Cornish foods are preceded by their reputation for freshness, high quality and uniqueness and The Cornish Crisp is no exception. The company, which has been making crisps for the past 20 months has created five different lightly-flavoured crisps, thick cut with their skins on and made from potato varieties not often used for crisping but championed by The Cornish Crisp Company for maintaining their natural potato taste once fried. Each flavoured crisp also supports a different local charity with a penny donated from every bag sold.

The newly refurbished Country Whey is located at 8 Clayton Road, Jesmond, NE2 4RP.

May 2011

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Cornish Crisp workforce abseil Lusty Glaze cliffs to boost funds for Surfers Against Sewage

Two members of staff from The Cornish Crisp Company joined 24 others in helping Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) raise money for their marine litter campaign by abseiling down 30-metre cliffs at Lusty Glaze Cove near Newquay last month. Josie Gist and Rachael Clayton who took part in the sponsored event raised over £120.00 between them for the campaign. The staff's individual fundraising effort is in addition to the company's on-going donations of a penny from every bag sold of the 'Agitater' salt and vinegar flavoured crisp named in honour of SAS. Rachael Clayton, Sales Manager for The Cornish Crisp Company said: "We jumped at the chance to do the abseil to boost funds for Surfers Against Sewage. We chose them to benefit from sales of our salt and vinegar 'Agitater' crisp because we're so proud of what they continue to do to keep our seas and rivers clear of marine litter and pollution." Pete Lewis from Surfers Against Sewage said: “SAS would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who took part on the day. It was a great opportunity to meet our supporters and thank them for the money they have raised to help tackle the issue of marine litter." The Cornish Crisp is available from delis, farm shops and pubs across the Southwest, for stockists please visit www.thecornishcrisp.co.uk and to find out more about Surfers Against Sewage see www.sas.org.uk

March 2011

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Cornish Crisp sales to be boosted with SALSA accreditation.

The Cornish Crisp Company has been awarded SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) accreditation, a scheme designed for small food and drink manufacturers to assure their quality systems before supplying products to national and regional buyers. The South East Cornwall based company which employs just four people heard they had achieved the standard on the 23rd December. To achieve SALSA, the company undertook a daylong audit where company records, production and operational systems and health and hygiene standards were closely inspected by a specialist auditor.

Sue Wolstenholme, Managing Director said: "We are currently talking to some national buyers who require us to have SALSA and therefore hope that this accreditation will take us to a new level in sales and better secure the future for our staff and the business. Despite this success, we will not be abandoning our policy of avoiding big supermarkets and retailers, which deal unfairly with farmers."

The team were helped to achieve the standard by the Food Innovation Service based at Duchy College, Stoke Climsland who helped the Cornish Crisp team with advice on achieving SALSA and a pre-audit check of paperwork and production standards. Geoff Waters from the Food Innovation Service said: "It is always good to hear of success stories coming from our members. It was great working with the Cornish Crisp team and helping them to achieve this milestone."

Sue added: "This was a real achievement for our small team who constantly put in a great deal of effort to ensure all of our processes are carefully documented so we have full traceability and also to make sure we are continually producing crisps that meet our very high standards."

The first true Cornish Crisp came off the company's production line in June 2009 and has since been supplied to a growing number of deli's, farm shops, freehouses, bakeries, caterers, hotel bars and other independent retailers in Cornwall and beyond.

Jan 2011

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