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Here at Lomond Wholesale we can’t wait to get going with the Summer season – although with recent weather it sometimes feels like its a long time away! Fingers crossed though we’ll start to see some lovely weather in Scotland soon – afterall, we are in to June already! This year seems to be flying in!
For those of you who don’t know, we branched out our delivery area to include Manchester last year, and now have a team based there covering the North West from our satelliete depot. We’re getting some great feedback from the new customers we have down there- which is fantastic to hear! If your based in the North West, and want to see what we can offer you, please get in touch. Jamie or Paul will be more than happy to pop and see you to discuss our range.
You may have noticed our team of delivery drivers over the last couple of weeks showing off their new style uniforms?! We thought we would freshen up the uniform with a new colour scheme and of course the addition of the new Lomond Wholesale logo. And if you think they look smart now, wait until you see them driving their new vehicles later next month! Our new fleet of vehicles will be arriving complete with new branding and we can’t wait for you to see it!
Have you seen the ‘Offers’ section of the website this month? We have updated it with June’s promotions, which include our delicious range of Chicken Buffet products from Atlantic Foods, along with a range of complimentary sauces. With exciting new flavours such as Chipotle and Honey or Lemon and Herb Piri Piri, and prices from £1.45 – why not give them a try?!
If you’re looking for a sweet treat, we’ve put our Spiced Apple and Caramel Cake on offer, so now’s the perfect time to try it if you haven’t already. Lightly Spiced Sponge, filled with Apple Filling, and topped with Caramel Buttercream. Moist and fruity – something a bit different to offer your customers, for a June price of just 78p per slice!
As always, please feed back any comments to our team either over the phone to our Telesales Team, or via this website.

At last the weather seems to be improving and we can all look forward to the brighter skies of Spring and Summer ahead! Everything seems better when the sun shines! 🙂
Since our last blog we have exhibited at the Manchester Northern Restaurant and Bar Show, and met lots of potential new customers. The show was a great success, with lots of great feedback on the range. We’ve been supplying the Manchester area with our range for over 6 months now, and it really is going from strength to strength. If you are in the area and interested in speaking to one of our Manchester based team members, please give us a call and we can arrange a visit for you. You’ll find we have a huge range at very competitive prices, all with exceptional customer service.
The website has just been updated with our fantastic May promotions. Perfect with Summer approaching- make sure you try our individual frozen Fruit Smoothie pouches. Try them today if you haven’t already! With flavours such as Ginger, Apple, Spinach and Carrot, or Peach, Passionfruit and Mango, they really are something a bit different and make it so simple to make healthy refreshing drinks. If you would like more information on these, or a visit and demo from one of our team, please just ask- we’ll be more than happy to help. We’ve also got 2 light Seasonal Soups on offer this month – Summer Minestrone, and Tomato and Onion. These soups are a bit lighter than the thicker Broths or Spicy soups we’ve had on offer recently, and are perfect for the warmer weather. Soup’s always such a healthy lunch option, we feel its important to offer a soup that suits every season. Cake is always a favourite with us – afterall, we have got our own on site bakery! So this month we’ve got our new Iced Ginger Loaf on promotion, as well as our superb scone range. All 6 flavours of scones, including our award winning Blueberry flavour are on offer, from as little as 43p a scone. Why make them yourself when you can get fantastic quality scones for such great value?!
If you’ve any comments on our website, 2015 brochure, or any of our products, please feel free to get in touch. We really value your feedback and love hearing from you. Or if you don’t already, why not follow us on Twitter or ‘Like’ us on Facebook? We regularly update with offers and product images and its a really easy way for you to keep in touch.

Welcome back to another update from the team here at Lomond! First things first, we’re sure you will have noticed our new website design! We’ve updated our site with the new Lomond – The Wholesale Food Co. branding, and added some great new additions such as the ‘Brand of the Month’ and also useful downloads such as our BRC certificate. We hope you like the new site design and find it easy to use. Please feed back any comments to the team as we always like to hear from you!
We are just back from a busy 2 days at ScotHot in the SECC last week, and the show was a huge success. We got to meet so many of our existing and new customers, and received some great feedback on our products. Infact, our Ultimate Blueberry Scones produced by our sister company, Cake, even won the Silver New Product Award! If you haven’t tried them yet, speak to the team today, we’re sure you won’t be disappointed!
Don’t worry, if you missed us at ScotHot, next week we will be exhibiting in Manchester Central on the 17th and 18th at the Northern Restarant and Bar Show. If your in the Manchester area and are interested in finding out a bit more about what we can offer you, make sure you register for your free tickets to come and meet us – it’d be great to see you!
This month we’ve got some great new products on offer as featured on the website. The soups of the month are the spicy Sambar Dahl and Gumbo Chicken – perfect to warm you up at this time of year. Or why not try one of our new Sandwich Fillings in a Deli Roll?! We have 3 new Sandwich Fillings on promotion this month, as well as some delicious new rolls, available in 3 different flavours. Check out the ‘Offers’ section of the website for more information.

Welcome to this months Lomond blog- thanks for checking back! If you are an existing customer you should hopefully have received a copy of our 2015 brochure by now! We hope you like our new company image and are finding the brochure a useful tool. If you haven’t received your copy yet or would like more information on any of the products in our range, please get in touch – we will be happy to help!
Are you planning any new additions to your Valentines menu this year?! Only a few days to go- so why not include some our lovely (get it?!) 🙂 new products- perfect for Valentines. From Raspberry and White Chocolate Scones, to Fentimans Rose Lemonade or Love Heart biscuits – we’ve got it covered. Speak to telesales today and they will be happy to make some suggestions.
The team are busy at the moment planning our stand at the ScotHot exhibition in the SECC, Glasgow next month. If you’ve not been before, its well worth a look. We will be sending out flyers soon, or check out the ScotHot website at www.scothot.co.uk to find out more. We will be there with our team of sales repesentatives and a huge range of our products. Its always great to get out there and get some feedback from customers and show you more of what we can offer you. It is running over two days – the 4th and 5th of March. In additon, next month we will also be exhibiting at the NRB show in Manchester. Manchester is a new area for us, but we’re already receiving some fantastic feedback from our new customers there. If you are in the Manchester area please pop along to our stand on 17th and 18th March and let us show you what we have to offer, or take a look at their website for more infomation at www.northernrestaurantandbar.co.uk
If you haven’t already seen, we have some great offers available this month – Our new range of Atlantic Sauces are going down a storm, with exciting flavours such as Chipotle and Honey, House of Lords BBQ Sauce and Lemon and Herb Piri Piri they’re a great addition to any menu and great value too with prices from as low as £1.45! Or why not try our soups of the month – Leek and Potato or Boston Chicken Chowder – and warm your customers up in this chilly spell.
As always, if you have any feedback or would like more information, please so not hesitate to get in touch.

Happy New Year from the Lomond Team! We hope you managed to get some well deserved time off over the festive period and enjoyed some quality family time. Back to it now though as another exciting year begins and we hope you, like us, are feeling positive about the year ahead.
This year we aim to continue offering excellent customer service, and will always do our best to try and help you out where ever we can. If you need some help or have a query, be sure to contact our telesales team or your sales representative and we will see what we can do. We also plan to extend our range and introduce some new and exciting products which we are sure you will love. Look out for these on the website and also on our monthly promotions page as we will often launch a product at a great introductory price.
One thing we are sure you will notice and we hope you will love is our new company image and logo. We have designed a new company image which is fresher and more modern, which we feel better represents us as a company. The exciting new colours and image will cover the website, new brochure, vehicles, and all our documents – so don’t be alarmed if you notice a change- it’s still the same Lomond you know and love. Our 2015 brochure has also been approved and signed off for delivery at the end of the month, so it won’t be long until you receive your copy – we hope you find it useful.
We will be exhibiting once again at this years ScotHot in the SECC, Glasgow in March. We have started planning our stand and hope to see as many of you there as possible to meet the team and sample our fantastic product range. It’s always a great show and an excellent chance to have an informal chat to find out what we can offer you and gain some new product or display ideas. We will include more information on this in next months blog.
For now, we hope January brings you a good start to the year and we look forward to continuing our working relationship with you in 2015.

Can you believe we are in to December already? It seems like just yesterday we were enjoying the summer rush, and now another year is almost over and Christmas will soon be upon us.
You will notice the new December promotions are now detailed on the website, including some fantastic Festive alternatives! Why not try our Festive sandwich filling to offer your customers something a bit different and get them in the festive spirit?! It is packed with Turkey, Sausage and Bacon and sure to be a top seller this time of year. Or we also have our 2 Spiced Apple products- Spiced Apple and Cinnamon Scones, and Spiced Apple and Caramel pre portioned round cake. Perfect for a bit of winter indulgence this time of year and something a bit different for your customers.
At the moment we are finalising our 2015 brochure featuring our new product range, so look forward to receiving your copy in January. We hope you like our new image – we cant wait to reveal it to you all!
We at Lomond have had a very busy November, and are pleased to say that we just just passed our annual BRC audit once again. Our quality and food safety procedures are audited to ensure that we meet the very highest standards, so that you can rest assured that we are doing things properly! The Technical team have also been busy sending out Allergen information to many of you, as you may be aware that legislation is changing and you will be required to provide information to your customers on any allegerns in your products. Please contact the team if you require any information from us on the range you are stocking – we will be happy to help!
We hope you all manage to have some time off over the busy Festive period and find some time to relax before the January sales rush! All that remains is to thank you for your custom in 2014, and to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to bringing you more exciting new products in 2015!

Doesnt time fly? I’m sure like us you cant believe another month has gone by and the summer holidays are almost over! Being so busy always makes time fly – and we certainly are busy here at Lomond!

Our team are rushed off their feet keeping up with the hightened requirements of our Edinburgh customers while the festival is in full swing! Our drivers are only just recovering from the busy streets of Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games the last few weeks! We’re certainly not complaining though, its so good to see so many busy customers and happy tourists enjoying all that Scotland has to offer. We hope you are spoiling them all with some of our fantastic cakes!

Speaking of Cakes- keep an eye out over the next couple of months on our cake website- www.handmadecakeuk.co.uk as our NPD team are busy creating some exciting products we are sure you will love!

Have you seen this months special offers?! Why not try a fantastic alternative to Ice cream while our range of delicious zero fat frozen yoghurts are on offer? With refreshing flavours such as Passionfruit and Mango and Coconut, there’s no better time of year to enjoy this sweet treat – we’re sure your customers will love it.
Don’t forget, we are still stocking our superb pulled meat products from last months promotion – these have certainly proven to be a winner and we have received great positive feedback. If you haven’t tried them yet they definatly make a good addition to your menu.

This month we are pleased to welcome to the team Stewart Rose, our new Sales Manager. Stewart will be heading up our fantastic team of Sales Representatives and we hope you will join us in welcoming him to our team.

We hope you are all enjoying the British summer and making the most of the sun- when you can! If you are anything like us I’m sure you’re all busier than ever. Not long to go now until Glasgow goes crazy for the Commonwealth Games, and Edinburgh experiences the buzz of the annual festival. There’s certainly a lot going on this summer to keep everyone busy which we think is fantastic.

 

Hopefully you will have already tried our new range of sandwich fillings- designed for the Commonwealth Games, with delicious flavours such as Canadian Chicken and Maple Bacon, and Honey Chilli Seafood. If you haven’t already- ask telesales about them today- they really are delicious!

Or if you prefer something a bit different to a sandwich filling- have you tried our 2 fantastic new pulled meats? Following the success of the pulled Beef and Pork, we now have pulled BBQ and Southern Style Chicken in stock! Why not be the first in your area to add these to your menu- you won’t be disappointed.

 

Our 2014 brochure will soon be uploaded on to the website so you can download it if you don’t already have a copy, or ask your representative if you would prefer a paper copy.

 

Don’t forget to have a look at our Cake website at www.handmadecakeuk.co.uk

It will certainly get your mouth watering and may give you some great ideas for new additions to your cake cabinet.