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The Prewett’s ‘Gorgeously Gluten Free’ range has been boosted by the launch of White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies in a move that will be welcomed by consumers in the free-from sector looking for great tasting biscuits.

These all-butter cookies crammed with white chocolate chunks and sweet cranberries will complement the award winning Prewett’s Gorgeously Gluten Free range.

Prewett’s Gorgeously Gluten Free White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies will be launched into Waitrose on 10 April.

David Wood, business improvement director for Northumbrian Fine Foods, who own Prewett’s, said: “We are delighted to have added Prewett’s Gorgeously Gluten Free White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies to our range.

“We are confident that these great tasting and high quality cookies will be well received by discerning consumers in the free-from sector.”

As well as the new White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies, the Gorgeously Gluten Free range includes the award winning Spicy Dark Chocolate & Ginger Ginger Cookies*, Rich Triple Chocolate Cookies and Chewy Oat & Raisin Cookies.

Prewett’s on the shortlist for prestigious ‘free-from’ food award

Two great tasting biscuits from the Prewett’s gluten free range have been shortlisted for a prestigious ‘FreeFrom Food Award’.

Prewett’s Chocoful and Prewett’s Rich Triple Chocolate Cookies were selected by the judging panel as finalists in the ‘Tea Time’ category in recognition of their delicious taste and product innovation.

‘Chocoful’  is a gluten free and individually wrapped chocolate coated biscuit bar while ‘Gorgeously Gluten Free Rich Triple Chocolate Cookies’ are all-butter cookies crammed with white and dark chocolate chunks and half-dipped in Belgian milk chocolate.

Both products feature eye-catching packaging that focuses on the quality of the biscuits. Chocoful is stocked by Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, and the Rich Triple Chocolate Cookies are available in Asda and Waitrose.

The Prewett’s biscuit and cookie range is manufactured by Gateshead based Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF) – a company with over 100 years of biscuit manufacturing tradition and expertise.

David Wood, business development director for NFF, said: “We are thrilled that these two products in the Prewett’s gluten free range have been shortlisted for a FreeFrom Food Award. We take great care in the manufacture our biscuits and cookies, and being selected as a finalist is recognition of the high quality of our products.”

The FreeFrom Food Awards are now in their 10^th year and are the industry’s only dedicated awards in the ‘free-from’ food sector. The winners will be announced in London on 28 March at an event hosted by celebrity chef Antony Worral Thompson.

Prewett’s Gorgeously Gluten Free Spicy Dark Chocolate & Ginger Ginger Cookies have scooped a prestigious Grocer New Product Award 2016 in recognition of their fine taste and quality.

The product won in ‘the Free From Biscuits’ category at the awards, with another great tasting Prewett’s biscuit, Chocoful, being ‘highly recommended’. The Grocer awards celebrate and reward outstanding innovation in the UK Fast moving consumer goods sector.

Gorgeously Gluten Free Spicy Dark Chocolate & Ginger Cookies feature indulgent ingredients such as Belgian chocolate and stem ginger. Prewett’s biscuits are manufactured by Gateshead based Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF).

David Wood, NFF Business Director, said: “We are delighted to have won this award and at the heart of our success has been the commitment of our staff in producing the highest quality and best tasting biscuits.”

The Grocer New Product Awards 2016 were held on Friday 7th October at the Marriott Grosvenor Square, London.

Northumbrian Fine Foods Ltd (NFF), the UK’s biggest gluten free biscuit manufacturer, is investing £1.2m in new baking production capabilities that will create around 40 new jobs at their Gateshead facility.

The investment is the result of soaring demand for their biscuits in the ‘free from’ sector that has seen turnover increase over the last five years by 80%.

The baking oven will increase production capacity at NFF by 40% and will principally focus on the manufacture of ‘indulgent’ cookies, rotary moulded biscuits and bake bars such as Granola. The 40 new jobs created by the investment will see total employment at the plant increase to around 200 people.

Stewart McLelland, managing director of NFF, said: “This investment is great news for Gateshead and is testament to the hard work of everyone at Northumbrian Fine Foods. We have seen significant growth in the ‘free from’ market for our ‘indulgent cookies’ and other biscuits, especially from the multiple retail sector.

“The new baking oven will play a key role in meeting current demand and also ensure that we can continue to grow the business significantly over the coming years.”

As well as supermarket own-label products, NFF also manufactures biscuits under the Prewett’s brand, which has enjoyed recent success with a significant expansion in its range to include milk-free biscuits, ‘indulgent’ all-butter cookies and individually wrapped chocolate coated biscuit bars, all of which are gluten free.

“We are planning further extensions to our range that will focus on everyday favourite biscuits in a variety of formats,” said McLelland.

About 60% of the UK’s gluten free sweet biscuit production is carried out at the NFF site in Gateshead. The new bake transporting oven will become fully operational by September and the recruitment process for new employees has now commenced.

Prewett’s, the UK’s leading gluten free biscuit brand, is throwing its support behind Coeliac UK’s Awareness Week (9 to 15 May) by running a series of social media competitions to help raise the profile of the condition.

According to Coeliac UK, around 1% of the UK population has coeliac disease but only 24% of those with the condition are medically diagnosed. This means that half a million people in the UK are living with coeliac disease, undiagnosed. Coeliac disease is a common digestive condition where a person has an adverse reaction to gluten – a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.

The aim of Awareness Week is to put people who are suffering with the symptoms of coeliac disease on a pathway to diagnosis, so they can be properly supported to manage their condition and avoid long term health complications.

To help promote Awareness Week, Prewett’s will be running a series competitions on social media such as Twitter and Facebook where a daily winner will receive a box of Prewett’s biscuits.

David Wood, Prewett’s Business Director, said: “Coeliac UK’s Awareness Week is an incredibly worthwhile campaign deserving of all our support. Our growing range of great tasting cookies has been specially created for those with coeliac disease and who require a gluten free diet.”

More details on Coeliac Awareness Week at www.coeliac.org.uk

To find out more about participating in the Awareness Week competitions follow Prewett’s on Twitter @Prewetts1872 and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Prewetts/

Terms and Conditions of Competition Entry

To be in with a chance to win the full Prewett’s range you must send in a full original gluten free recipe to us via direct message to the Prewett’s Facebook or Twitter account (photo and ingredients). The competition will run from Monday 9th May – Monday 16th May when we will announce the winner.

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