Do yourself a flavour – new Cherizena flavoured coffees launched

Coffee specialist Cherizena is launching three new flavours in time for the festive season.

To accompany this year’s limited edition Christmas Coffee, the Leicestershire-based family business has also created Viennese Flavoured Coffee, Cognac Flavoured Coffee and Malt Whisky Flavoured Coffee.

The new flavours are the latest in around 30 flavours of coffee created by the company, which has its headquarters on the Wartnaby Estate near Melton Mowbray.

“We’ve been experimenting and trialling new flavours and blends, and are delighted with the latest batch of flavoured coffee that we’ve developed. The flavours are stunning and we think they are a really welcome addition to the extensive range Cherizena already offers,” said Kate Jones, who runs the mail order coffee supplier, which is also a regular at events, markets and food fairs across the East Midlands.

All of Cherizena’s flavoured coffees are produced in-house in small batches and use the Colombian medium roasted bean as the base coffee. The blends contain no added sugars, syrups or coatings – they are just finest quality beans infused with flavours. 

Available as regular or decaffeinated, beans or ground coffee, the new flavoured coffees sit alongside popular and unusual Cherizena blends such as Banoffee Pie Flavoured Coffee, Chocolate and Coconut Flavoured Coffee and Sticky Gingerbread Flavoured Coffee. 

Its limited edition Christmas Coffee - with a delicious aroma reminiscent of plum pudding – is the company’s most popular flavoured coffee.

The new Viennese Coffee blend incorporates the creamy flavour and aroma of fig married with the Colombian bean and is based on the coffee traditionally served in Austrian coffee houses.

Perfect for after dinner, the Cognac coffee blends French Cognac aromas and flavour with Cherizena’s Colombian medium roasted coffee, while the Malt Whisky Flavoured Coffee has a delicious warming hint of peaty whisky flavour.

The new flavours cost £3 for a 115g pack and will become permanent additions to the Cherizena range. Christmas Coffee is priced at £3.25 for a 115g pack and is available until Christmas, with final orders taken on 21^st December 2015.

All the coffees are available from www.cherizena.co.uk. 

Cherizena is a specialist supplier of premium, speciality and flavoured coffees, and supplies coffee mail order across the UK and abroad. Its Twitter handle is @CherizenaCoffee

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Cherizena Coffee celebrates its 10th anniversary on the Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire border

Coffee specialist Cherizena is celebrating ten years since it became the first business to move onto the Wartnaby Estate on the Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire border. 

Kate Jones and husband Tom bought the business in 2004 from two Northamptonshire women who had launched it some years earlier. After running it in its existing premises for a few months, the couple moved the business to a converted cow shed on the Wartnaby Estate – becoming the first enterprise to move into what is now a small rural business hub. 

Since then, Cherizena has steadily grown and now supplies premium, speciality and flavoured coffees across the UK and abroad to both consumer and trade customers. 

“We were looking for somewhere to run the business from that was not too far from our home near Melton Mowbray so we asked Wartnaby Estate manager Geoff Johnson if there was a unit, barn or suitable space on the estate somewhere that we could rent,” said Kate. “It was agreed that we could move into a former cow shed. When we saw it the first time it still had straw on the floor and a trough in the corner. 

“The estate converted it into a unit, with an office and other facilities, and we were literally the first business to move onto the estate in January 2005. We used to have cattle and sheep looking out at us across the farm yard when we first moved in.” 

Cherizena sends out 6.5 tonnes of coffee from its premises every year. It specialises in flavouring its own coffees, and has more than 20 different flavours available ranging from salted caramel flavour, sticky gingerbread flavour coffee and its most recent blend, banoffee pie flavoured coffee. 

“There’s been a definite increase in demand for coffee over the years, both in premium and speciality coffee, and in flavoured coffees, which are particularly popular with the younger generation,” said Kate. “The British public has a real taste for coffee at the moment. 

“The amount we sell has steadily grown and we’re delighted with the way we’ve been able to expand from our home on the Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire border.” 

As well as specialising in flavoured coffees, Cherizena at times also supplies rare and unusual coffees from far flung places in the world, depending on availability. 

The company sells direct to customers via mail order, with regular customers all over the UK and further afield such as Australia, USA, Cyprus and EU countries. It also supplies to trade customers such as coffee shops, hotels, pubs, restaurants and farm shops and regularly sends to trade customers as far afield as Singapore and India. 

Cherizena is a regular at food and drink fairs across the country, as well as those closer to home such as Melton Mowbray Food and Drink Festival. 

As part of its 10^th anniversary celebrations, Cherizena is offering 10% off everything on its website including coffees and coffee equipment during January 2015. For more information visit www.cherizena.co.uk

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Croots Farm Shop tastes success at the British Pie Awards

A pie made by Derbyshire farm shop Croots has been rated as one of the best pies in the country at the British Pie Awards 2013.

The game pie produced by Croots came second in the Speciality Pie section of the annual awards, which celebrate the UK’s best pies.

Hosted and organised by the British Pork Pie Association in Melton Mowbray, the awards attracted almost 1,000 pies this year across 20 different classes.

Croots Farm Shop owner Steve Croot said: “We are thrilled that our game pie was rated so highly in the speciality pies category.

“We narrowly missed out on taking the champion slot but we were up against some amazing pie makers and pies from across the UK, so to be a runner up and come second is absolutely brilliant. The feedback we get from customers about our pies is great, but to have it recognised by the judges at the British Pie Awards is excellent and a real coup for the team at Croots.”

The game pie is one of a number of sweet and savoury pies made by deputy manager Margaret Robinson at Croots Farm Shop, which is based at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield.

The game pie features venison, pheasant and rabbit, with ingredients varying throughout the year depending on what’s in season.

Croots has won several accolades at the British Pie Awards previously. Last year it won five silver or bronze awards, and the previous year it scooped four gold, silver or bonze awards.

More than 130 producers from across the UK entered their pies into the awards. Some 106 judges were recruited to munch their way through the entries, including TV chef and food campaigner Rachel Green, food writers and journalists, and cricket broadcaster Jonathan Agnew.

Croots Farm Shop has won more than 60 awards for its sausages, pies and home-made items since opening in 2008, and has built up a strong reputation for the quality of its butchers’ counter. Croots also sells a range of food and drink produced locally, regionally and from further afield. It stocks products from up to 40 producers from within a 50-mile radius of the shop

Next month it is due to open its extended restaurant area, which is being built in response to customer demand.

Croots Farm Shop is open Sundays from 10am to 4pm, and from Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm. It is closed on Mondays.

For more information visit www.croots.co.uk

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New trade orders for Leicestershire coffee supplier Cherizena

East Midlands-based coffee producer Cherizena is celebrating a string of new trade orders after introducing new labelling equipment.

The company has won contracts to supply branded coffee to a number of new clients including a national financial organisation, regional farm shops and independent stores, coffee shops and individual firms across the UK.

The coffee is being bagged in different-sized packs with tailor-made labels for the customers, who are then using them as promotional material, as part of hospitality services or selling them as a branded product.

In addition, Cherizena has recently picked up a new contract caterer customer.

The new business has totalled more than £6,000 over the past six months.

“We are delighted with how much extra business we have generated as a result of investing in our new labelling printer and by increasing our sales efforts, which included exhibiting at the Federation of Small Businesses’ conference in Leicester in March,” said Kate Jones, who runs Cherizena, which is based at Wartnaby near Melton Mowbray.

“The labelling equipment has given us the flexibility to supply all our coffees in our clients’ branded packaging, ranging from 60g sachets up to larger packs.

A lot of companies are looking for something eye-catching and useful that they can give away as a promotional tool at events and so on, and branded coffee fits the bill perfectly.

“Exhibiting at the FSB conference in Leicester really helped us to promote ourselves and the services we offer to companies from across the UK.”

Cherizena, which produces and supplies premium, speciality and flavoured coffees, invested in the new equipment, as well as a new webshop, in the summer of 2012.

It was supported by the Food and Drink iNet, which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and run by business organisation the Food and Drink Forum.

The iNet provided a match-funded grant of just over £3,000 to help with the innovation.

Since then, Cherizena has embarked on a sales and promotion effort to raise awareness of the company’s products and services.

“We have supplied branded coffees to trade customers for some time but the new equipment has given us much more flexibility and improved the quality of the labels,” said Kate.

“We expect that these latest orders will help us to increase turnover significantly over the next few months.”

One of Cherizena’s latest trade customers is 5* country house accommodation and event venue Vale House Belvoir, near Grantham, which has ordered sachets of ‘Vale House Belvoir’ coffee for its bedrooms and plans to provide personalised coffee for special occasions.

“Guests really appreciate the personalised and individual touches, and we were very pleased to find a local coffee supplier that could provide high quality coffees in Vale House Belvoir branding that we could put in our guest bedrooms and also personalise for special occasions such as birthday parties, weddings or hen parties,” said host Lara Young.

Cherizena sells to consumers, via mail order and at fairs and events, and to trade customers, including retailers, caterers and others in the hospitality trade.

It produces more than 20 flavoured coffees and also offers around 30 single-origin coffees and blends. It can supply coffee as beans or ground, regular or decaffeinated.

For more information about Cherizena contact 01664 820111 or visit www.cherizena.co.uk

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Cider apple flavoured coffee launched for spring 2013 by Cherizena

Mail order coffee specialist Cherizena is launching a new cider apple flavoured coffee.

The fresh and fruity flavour combines the aroma of sweet juicy apple with a punchy apple tang … to give coffee lovers something new to savour. Perfect for hot drinks as well as cold frappés, it has been created as a result of customer demand.

It is the latest in a range of more than 20 flavoured coffees produced by Cherizena, which also offers around 30 single-origin coffees and blends via mail order from www.cherizena.co.uk

“Flavoured coffees are increasing in popularity, especially among young coffee drinkers as a trendy alternative to regular coffee, and our latest one tastes great and has a superb aroma,” said Kate Jones, who runs the family-owned Leicestershire-based firm.

“We’re delighted to be adding cider apple coffee to Cherizena’s range of flavoured and speciality coffees.”

Just like all the coffees in Cherizena’s flavoured range, the cider apple flavour contains no syrups or coatings.

Cherizena, based near Melton Mowbray, is a leading UK specialist producer of coffee and sources premium, rare and speciality coffees, as well as creating its own range of wonderful flavoured coffees.

The cider apple flavour will be available from February 28th 2013 on www.cherizena.co.uk
and will be available as beans or ground, regular or decaffeinated costing £3 for 115g.

For more information visit www.cherizena.co.uk

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Festive fund-raising from Cherizena Coffee

Coffee specialist Cherizena has embarked on a festive fund-raising effort in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

The mail order supplier of flavoured, premium and speciality coffees is running a Christmas promotion on its website www.cherizena.co.uk

When a customer discovers a Santa hidden in a coffee cup, they qualify for 50p off their order, which will be donated to the charity. After ordering, the customer will also be entered into a competition to win one of five Christmas gift baskets from Cherizena.

The firm, which offers up to 30 single origin coffees and blends, and around 20 different flavoured varieties, has coffees to suit all tastes.

It is a leading UK specialist producer of coffee, and sources premium, rare and speciality coffees, as well as creating its own range of superb flavoured coffees.
Cherizena’s Christmas coffee is one of its most popular limited edition flavours, and last year around half a tonne of it was sold.
“We have backed Macmillan Cancer Support via its World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fund-raising effort in the past, and wanted to do something this Christmas too,” said Kate Jones, from Cherizena. “It’s a bit of fun for customers browsing our website, and hopefully it will make a nice Christmas present for charity too.”

Cherizena is based at Wartnaby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and supplies coffee mail order to consumers, and also to trade customers.

The competition runs until December 17th 2012.   For more information visit www.cherizena.co.uk


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Coffee company Cherizena gets a boost from the Food and Drink iNet

A grant from the Food and Drink iNet has helped specialist coffee supplier Cherizena to gain new customers.

The iNet provided a match-funded grant to the Leicestershire-based business to help the company create a new e-commerce website linked to a full-colour label printer.

Amongst other things, this allowed the company to offer bespoke printed labels to its trade customers wanting their own-label coffees to sell in shops.

Within weeks of setting up the system, Cherizena bagged its first new trade customer – a new deli opening in Blackburn which wanted to offer its own-label coffee.

“The grant from the Food and Drink iNet has been great news for Cherizena and is starting to pay dividends for the company already,” said owner Kate Jones. “Not only have we been able to create a much more comprehensive e-shop to sell to our mail order consumer customers via our new website www.cherizena.co.uk, we’ve also been able to offer tailor-made colour printed labels to our trade customers, as well as improve the quality and variety of our own labels.

“I’d like to thank the iNet for its support, as well as advisor Stevie Jackson who’s been very helpful with a number of suggestions of ways in which we can develop Cherizena further and potentially tap into new markets.”

Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Food and Drink iNet co-ordinates innovation support for businesses, universities and individuals working in the food and drink sector in the East Midlands.

It has developed an effective network to encourage the collaboration of academic expertise and knowledge, and local food and drink business innovation needs.

The iNet awarded Cherizena with a grant of just over £3,000, which the company match-funded.

Advisor Stevie Jackson said: “I’m very pleased to hear that Cherizena is already reaping the benefits of the Food and Drink iNet support and hope that the company continues to go from strength to strength.”

Cherizena, which is based at Wartnaby near Melton Mowbray, has been run by Kate Jones and husband Tom since 2005.

The company supplies speciality, premium and flavoured coffee direct to the public via its website and also by attending shows and events around the country. It also sells to trade customers including shops, bars, restaurants and cafés.

The company offers up to 30 single origin coffees and blends, and 20 different flavoured varieties. It is a leading UK specialist producer of coffee, and sources premium, rare and speciality coffees, as well as creating its own range of flavoured coffees.

The new e-commerce website is more sophisticated than Cherizena’s previous website, and the company hopes it will help to expand markets and develop the business.

The Food and Drink iNet is managed by a consortium, led by The Food and Drink Forum and including Nottingham Trent University, the University of Lincoln, and the University of Nottingham.

It is based at Southglade Food Park, Nottingham, with advisors covering the East Midlands region.

For more information about the iNet visit www.foodanddrink-inet.org.uk

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Croots Farm Shop scoops five accolades at the British Pie Awards

 

Derbyshire farm shop Croots is celebrating after winning five accolades at the British Pie Awards.

The haul brings to almost 60 the total number of awards that Croots has won for its home made pies, sausages and bacon over the past two years.

“We’re absolutely thrilled with the ratings given to our pies at the British Pie Awards, which had around 900 entries,” said Steve Croot, who runs Croots Farm Shop at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield.

“This was the second year we had entered the event in Melton Mowbray, and we were up against some very talented pie makers from across the country. All our pies are made by deputy manager Margaret Robinson, who’s excited to hear how well we’ve done.”

Croots scooped silver awards for its chicken, bacon and leek pie and its game pie, along with bronze awards for its beef and ale pie, corned beef and potato pie, and chicken and apricot pie.

Last year at the British Pie Awards, Croots won a gold for its popular steak and kidney pie, a silver in the dessert pie category for its rhubarb and cherry pie, and bronze awards for its pork pie and its little mutton pie.

This year’s awards attracted almost 50% more entries than in 2011. Judges included Daily Telegraph food writer Xanthe Clay and TV chefs Phil Vickery and Rachel Green.

Croots, which has its own in-house butchers’ team, as well as a delicatessen and cheese counter, has won many awards since opening in June 2008. Over the past two years alone the shop has scooped almost 60 accolades, including Great Taste Awards – the Oscars of the food industry – and BPEX awards, run by the pork industry.

All the pork sausages at Croots are made using pork from Packington Free Range at Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton-upon-Trent. Croots has a range of around 40 different flavours of banger, which it sells on a rotating basis.

The shop is planning a one-day sausage festival on Saturday May 5^th with 10% off bangers.

The pies at Croots Farm Shop are produced by Margaret Robinson, with the beef and ale, chicken, bacon and leek, and steak and kidney pies being the most popular.

“Our pies have become very well-liked with customers since we introduced them. I’m especially pleased to see that the corned beef and potato pie has received an award in the pie awards this year – it’s my favourite,” added Steve.

For more information visit www.croots.co.uk

Croots Farm Shop & Kitchen is open Sundays from 10am to 4pm (café until 3.45pm), and from Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (café until 4.30pm). It is closed on Mondays.

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Food and Drink Innovation Network (iNet) supports unique sports recovery drink developed by Leicestershire firm

Leicestershire company Omniceutica Limited has received backing from the Food and Drink Innovation Network (iNet) to help develop, test and commercialise its unique new sports recovery drink, fuelSAQ™.

The firm, based at Asfordby Business Park, Melton Mowbray, has created a formulation that offers a range of benefits, not just as a sports recovery drink but potentially as a platform for other nutraceutical opportunities.

The unique drink not only reduces the ‘sugar drop’ experienced by athletes and commonly described as ‘hitting the wall’, but the base that’s been developed can be used as the foundation for a range of different products that can provide health benefits for the heart, joints and other parts of the body.

Omniceutica (www.omtca.com) has now completed successful pilot studies of fuelSAQ™ and tested the product using professional sports people and elite athletes, under the direction of the world-renowned sports training company, SAQ International Limited, which is also based at Asfordby Business Park.

Professional cricketers at Derbyshire Cricket Club, including veteran first-class, one-day and international bowler, Steffan Jones, were among those who tested the product, and the results showed that their fatigue was reduced over several hours by between 21% and 49% in tests, when compared to a placebo (‘dummy’) drink. Jones also stated that his energy levels were maintained over a long period when consuming fuelSAQ™.

Omniceutica and SAQ will now use the results and positive feedback from these and other athletes who have trialled the product, to support promotion of fuelSAQ™ to third parties via a distribution, acquisition or out-licensing deal, or to market the drink directly through its own niche channels, including online via www.fuelSAQ.com.

“The unique selling point of the product, compared to currently available sports drinks, is its multi-component formulation that provides several benefits in a single serving,” said Glen Martyn, Omniceutica’s managing director.

“Patent protection is being sought for the proprietary formulation but the novel combination of ingredients present in the fuelSAQ™ product , namely a stimulant, together with a carbohydrate providing sustained energy and also hydrolysed protein, offers unique nutritional and physiological benefits including, for example, an expected blunted insulin response.”

The Food and Drink iNet, which is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), awarded Omniceutica a £10,000 grant to help with development.

The funding was used towards field trials of the proprietary drink that documented information on the product’s impact on performance, endurance and recovery - ultimately enabling Omniceutica to finesse the marketing strategy.

“One of the roles of the Food and Drink iNet is to support innovative new product development in the sector, and the drink developed by Omniceutica appears to have significant potential,” said Food and Drink iNet director Richard Worrall.

“fuelSAQ™ has been designed specifically for professional and elite athletes, but is also likely to appeal to, in a slightly modified form, amateur athletes and young people”, said Glen Martyn, a qualified pharmacist with experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.

The drink contains a rapid-acting stimulant and a slow release carbohydrate component which has a longer lasting energy profile compared to conventional sugars and which also avoids spikes in plasma insulin. The formulation also comprises a protein hydrolysate that has been demonstrated in clinical trials to accelerate recovery from exercise and increase physical performance.

“We believe there is an opportunity for a single product which can provide sustained energy and aid recovery, all without producing a plasma insulin peak and resultant glucose drop often seen with other sports drinks,” he added.

“There is a potential market of around 27million people in the UK who regularly buy health and sports drinks to help them through busy schedules and fitness regimes. We believe the global potential for this product is huge. We would like to thank the iNet and their team, Stevie Jackson in particular, for their constant support and helpful input over the last nine months, without which we would not have entered this critical phase of testing.”

Omniceutica Limited is a specialist product development and consultancy organisation working on the development of pharmaceutical and functional food products.

The Food and Drink iNet co-ordinates innovation support for businesses, universities and individuals working in the food and drink sector in the East Midlands. It has developed an effective network to encourage the collaboration of academic expertise and knowledge, and local food and drink business innovation needs.

It aims to build on the tradition of innovation in the food and drink industry in the regionby helping to create opportunities to develop knowledge and skills, and to help research, develop and implement new products, markets, services and processes.

The Food and Drink iNet is managed by a consortium, led by The Food and Drink Forum and including Quotec Ltd (formerly Food Processing Faraday), Nottingham Trent University, the University of Lincoln, and the University of Nottingham. It is based at Southglade Food Park, Nottingham, with advisors covering the East Midlands region.

www.omtca.com

www.fuelSAQ.com

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Christmas coffee unveiled by specialist supplier Cherizena Coffee

Specialist coffee supplier Cherizena has launched a Christmas cracker with this year’s festive flavour.

Available to café, restaurant, pub, retail and food service trade customers now, and later in the year by mail order to consumers, the Christmas Coffee has an aroma reminiscent of Christmas pudding.

The limited edition Christmas Coffee has been created by flavouring the Colombian Excelsior medium bean with a delicious combination of rum, hazelnut, cinnamon, vanilla, orange and pecan nut flavours.

Last year, the Leicestershire-based company sold around three quarters of a tonne of its Christmas Coffee to food service customers, to retailers and to its customers in the UK and abroad.

“Last year’s blend was so popular that we’ve kept to a similar recipe for the Cherizena Christmas Coffee 2011, but have just added a little bit of hazelnut and a touch of pecan nut,” said Kate Jones, who runs Cherizena, based at Wartnaby, near Melton Mowbray.

Offering up to 30 single origin coffees and blends, and 20 different flavoured varieties, Cherizena has coffees to suit all tastes. It is a leading UK specialist producer of coffee, and sources premium, rare and speciality coffees, as well as creating its own range of superb flavoured coffees.

The Christmas Coffee is one of its limited edition flavours. It can be branded for trade customers, and is available in packs up to a kilo in size. It can also be teamed up with Cherizena’s “snip and pour” packs for filter machines, which are available in boxes of 50, including filter papers.

Orders are now being taken for trade customers, with a 10% discount given on trade orders placed before the end of September 2011.

The Christmas Coffee will be available on its own or as part of festive gift sets online to consumers from the end of September 2011 at www.cherizena.co.uk

For further details call 01664 820111 or visit www.cherizena.co.uk.

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Get stuck in .... new Sticky Gingerbread flavoured coffee launched by coffee specialist Cherizena

Coffee specialist Cherizena has launched a new Sticky Gingerbread flavoured coffee.

The new flavour has been designed to complement Cherizena’s current range of premium, speciality and flavoured coffees.

Available directly to customers in a range of different pack sizes from www.cherizena.co.uk, the Sticky Gingerbread flavoured coffee is the first new flavour to be introduced by Cherizena this year.

Created from Columbian coffee beans infused with sticky gingerbread flavour, with a sweet and spicy aroma, the new variety of coffee is available as beans or ground, and as decaffeinated or regular coffee.

Just like all of the coffees in Cherizena’s flavoured range, it contains no syrups and no coatings.

Cherizena offers up to 30 single origin coffees and blends, and 20 different flavoured varieties to both consumer and trade customers.

It is a leading UK specialist producer of coffee, and sources premium, rare and speciality coffees, as well as creating its own range of superb flavoured coffees. Its coffees are blended, flavoured and packed at the firm’s headquarters at Wartnaby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

“The Sticky Gingerbread flavoured coffee has a wonderful aroma and taste, and is a perfect addition to our range,” said Cherizena’s Kate Jones.

Sticky Gingerbread Coffee is priced £3 for a 125g pack from www.cherizena.co.uk