Free publicity is good publicity....

The Halifax Evening Courier decided to feature the launch of our new cheese - Pexommier. The picture took some doing though - me and Andrew squeezed together hunched over a pile of cheese for what seemed like an age.

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/New-cheese-a-big-hit.6012089.jp

Read the first comment below the article. Local newspapers are there for free publicity! It is down to companies like ours to create news stories for them. Unfortunately (or not) :-) free publicity does follow when they decide that we've created a story worthy of reporting.

Australia is catching up with us....

Word of East Lee Soft Cheese is slowly spreading around the globe. Not entirely sure how the aussies got hold of this but it seems that they've heard of the Todmorden Incredible Edible initiative and more importantly East Lee Soft. Follow the link to read the article courtesy of The Age.....

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/grassroots-movement-20091205-kbwv.html

I'm now a lot fitter.....

.... from walking up to the cheese headquarters due to the snow. Unfortunately, I only have a little sports car that is completely useless in the snow, so over the past couple of weeks I've had to resort to leaving it on the main road and completing the journey on foot.

My mind has wandered between wondering if you can actually get frostbite in Todmorden, to wondering why I didn't build the cheese factory in the valley bottom. I've even contemplated buying some ridiculous 4x4 car but ruled this out because I definitely prefer my Celica. The 20 minute walk has certainly filled my head with ideas, just imagine what a walk to the South Pole would do to my imagination.

I forced myself to be constructive in this time of cold desperation, resulting in me re-designing/re-writing the Pextenement Cheese website in my head. So, roll on 5 days of being hunched over my laptop, coding what has filled my head for the last few days, albeit with a few excursions into Facebook etc., to keep my sanity.

I've almost keyed it all in, I'm just testing it now. The results will be available soon, hope you all like the new look......

ps. if anyone wants a website, let me know.......

Pextenement Cheese Company wins an award....

Many thanks to everyone who voted for Pextenement Cheese Company in the recent Todmorden Business Association awards. We won the inaugral 'Totally Locally Hero' award - for the best Todmorden product or service of 2009.

More details (and a rare picture of Carl!) can be found in this newspaper article....

http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/Todmorden39s-business-award-winners-celebrate.5933213.jp

Pextenement Cheese Company in the news,

We've appeared in quite a few press articles over the past few weeks. Here are a number or links to the web versions if you're interested in reading more about us......



1) Independent on Sunday. General article about Todmorden's food self sufficiency.



http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/todmordens-good-life-introducing-britains-greenest-town-1830666.html



2) Calderdale Means Business. Magazine article with a large section dedicated to us.



http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/magazines/Calderdale-Means-Business--edition.5248910.jp

3) Todmorden News / Hebden Bridge Times article with reference to Pextenement Organic Cheese. Note, both articles are identical, but published in different newspapers.

http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news-features/Ear-To-The-Ground-Can.5898762.jp?articlepage=1

http://www.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/features/Ear-To-The-Ground-Can.5898762.jp?articlepage=1

East Lee Soft - is Tod's "Specialist Product"....

...according to Martin Wainwright of the Guardian!

Yep, that's right, our East Lee Soft cheese gets a mention in Martin's blog on guardian.co.uk. The article stems from the Michael Portillo episode highlighted below in this blog.

For more details, read the Guardian blog at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/sep/17/northerner-martin-wainwright

* the East Lee Soft bit is right at the bottom of article !!

Oh dear, Michael Portillo missed out.....

It was a once in a lifetime chance for Mr Portillo to taste some of our East Lee Soft Cheese and he missed out by a matter of minutes (Jean had sold out as usual!). We'd delivered around 50 pieces the day before and they'd all gone by the time he got to the Crumbly Cheese stall.

For the full Todmorden News article, follow this link....

http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/Michael-Portillo-calls-in-for.5634229.jp