London-based Swedish ex-pat Mia Karlsson has devised a truly charming and innovative new Advent Calendar app for smart phones, Swedish Christmas (1 app. 24 windows - text in Swedish and English). Features include traditional Swedish Christmas songs and videos displaying festive traditions such as candle-making, dancing games, baking saffron buns and a Lucia procession.
Swedish food specialists TotallySwedish will be exhibiting at stand 127, The Scandinavia Show, Earls Court, London 6-7th of October. They are launching a range of regional artisan foods, most of which have received awards by Husmansbord and Jakten på Sveriges bästa landskapsmat. TotallySwedish have two London stores and an online shop, which stock more than 800 different Swedish food products.
UK Powerpop band Jackdaw4 are currently working with Direct To Fan Platform PledgeMusic, to release their forthcoming (as yet unnamed) 4th studio album. Less than 24 hours after launching Jackdaw4 smashed through their original target, and currently the band have surpassed 320% with less than two weeks to go before their project comes to an end.
STOLEN FACES challenges preconceptions of beauty and identity. Acclaimed Swedish artist Johan Andersson encourages viewers to confront their preconceptions of identity in a manner that is uniquely uncompromising. This exclusive event takes place May 11th 2012, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, The Long Gallery of Englefield House, Berkshire RG7 5EN, in collaboration with Art Below.
FreeFrom Food Awards is the industry's only award for excellence for freefrom food – raising the profile of freefrom within the industry and with the consumer. The 2012 awards were presented by Antony Worrall Thompson at the 5th annual FreeFrom Food Awards party on 17th April 2012 at the Museum of London in Docklands, London.
A large selection of Fria’s products now being available in over a hundred O’Cool stores in Belgium. “The demand for Fria products is increasing so we’re really excited that our products have been so well-received in Belgium – it’s clearly an important new market for us", says Gunnar Adås, founder, co-owner and managing director at Fria.
An increasing amount of people in the UK buy freefrom food. It's estimated that the global market for freefrom food will be $17 billion by 2017! The annual FreeFrom Food Awards seek out the the best of those freefrom foods. The awards, whose patron is long-term champion of freefrom food, Antony Worrall Thompson, have been hugely successful in raising the profile and the quality of freefrom food.
The massive popularity of central London’s TotallySwedish store, has prompted the launch of a second TotallySwedish in High Street, Barnes in West London: “I’ve been running the shop in Crawford Street in the West End of London since September 2005", says owner Annethe Nathan, “and the business has been going very well and it’s so popular, we’ve decided to expand and open a new store".
Cooking Gluten, Wheat and Dairy Free is a new Free From cookbook from Michelle Berriedale-Johnson. "If you want to stick to a dairy, gluten and wheat-free diet, you need to know where your forbidden ingredients are likely to be found and what alternatives to use", says Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, who is an expert on 'free from' cooking with over 20 books to her name.
Fria strives to educate and raise awareness of coeliac disease – once a relatively rare disease in children and now a public health epidemic. Fria aims to assist in furthering the debate so more undiagnosed people with coeliac disease can regain their health and we can help them embrace a gluten-free life.
Scandinavian market-leader responds to UK demand and confirms exciting new deal to distribute its award-winning gluten-free bakery products online through the UK's GFF Direct.
Following the highly popular Swedish food trials during January and February 2011 at John Lewis Foodhalls from Waitrose, Oxford Street and Bluewater, Kent, public demand means that Scandinavian gluten-free market-leader Fria's breads will continue to be sold in both flagship stores.
