With the new brand refresh from FLAVIA now well under way with “source.seal.serve” registered as a trademark and “think fresh” being their new tagline both of which will in time become synonymous with the FLAVIA brand, I spent the weekend thinking about what makes a particular term stick in the mind and instinctively relate not [...]
CREDIT CRISIS, THE VENDING MACHINE SOLUTION
March 26th, 2009If like many businesses in 2009 you are finding the going a little tougher than previous years and are looking to maximise the efficiency of your business and employees it pays to ensure you have most effective means of staff and visitor refreshment. For many smaller businesses the kettle and ceramic mug has long been [...]
TEA BREAK TRIAVIA, A FEW “TIPS” ON PG
March 24th, 2009Continuing my series of “Tea Trivia” blogs it was inevitable that “PG Tips”, probably the UK’s favourite tea tipple would have to feature fairly quickly! Compared with Typhoo tea first sold in 1903 and discussed in an earlier blog, PG Tips is a relative newcomer having been launched as recently as 1930. This ‘Brook Bond’ [...]
FLAVIA KENYAN DAWN BECOMES JUST “KENYA”
March 20th, 2009All of our Kent and Sussex Vending customers currently enjoying the Flavia range of fresh brew drinks may well have noticed the new design of filter packs gradually appearing in the range. There are no changes at all to either the blends of tea and coffee packed or the volume of ingredients used. However the [...]
EARL GREY TEA FOR FLAVIA AND KENCO SINGLES DRINKS MACHINES
March 18th, 2009Earl Grey produces its distinctive flavour thanks to an oil extract taken from the rind of the bergamot orange. Earl Grey tea is named after the 19th century British Prime Minister the 2nd Earl Grey with the legend of how the tea naming came about having at least two possible sources. The first involves one [...]
PETER MANDLESON’S COFFEE UPSET
March 3rd, 2009Following on from my recent blog about Alan Milburn suffering at the hands of a Times journalist and her badly opened Dairystix its politics again as now Peter Mandleson makes the KSV blog following an angry dispute with Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz. At a time when Starbucks are closing hundreds of Shops and introducing [...]
FLAVIA CAPPUCCINO TOPPING BECOMES CAPPUCCINO/LATTE SWIRL
March 2nd, 2009The updates currently being made to the Flavia range of products only involves one actual change of ingredients but what an impressive one it is! Those of you that enjoy two pack drinks will soon notice that the original Flavia Creamy Topping is now being replaced by Cappuccino / Latte Swirl. The new name may [...]
