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The Northern Marketing Awards celebrate the excellence, creativity and achievements of the marketing industry in the North. Essential Cuisine are proud to share that our marketing team have been shortlisted for “Best In-House Team” and will be heading to the final on the 21st of November.

Varied in experience, knowledge and background, the marketing team is made up of Ben Forbes (Head of Marketing), Dawn Faulkner (Innovations Manager), Rebecca Perks (Digital and Communications Manager), Sophie Higgs (Marketing Executive), Jonathan Harvey-Barnes (Senior Business Development Chef), Robin Dudley (Business Development Chef) and James Circuit (Business Development Chef).

Following a successful rebrand in early 2019 and our recent acquisition, the marketing team have experienced a huge growth in demand; including work for the wider Solina team.
 
Whilst supporting the wider Solina Group, the Essential Cuisine marketing eeam have undergone a full analysis of their foodservice marketing strategy. After months of planning, researching, concepting and developing, a strongly improved approach was created and implemented. New channel sector support, increased volumes of internally designed recipe books and sector guides, an engaging digital approach with a brand new website were just a small amount of the elements successfully delivered to the market and all maintained by the small in-house team.
 
We’re keeping our fingers crossed for a rewarding outcome tomorrow evening. We will be sharing snapshots of the final on both Twitter and Instagram. Stay tuned and follow hashtag #NorthernMarketingAwards.