Cup cake queens taste eco success; Go Green The Midlands' first green wedding fair will be held in Birmingham and organisers promise there'll be something for everyone from the ecoconscious to the eco-curious. PATRICE JOHN reports THE EXHIBITOR.Byline: PATRICE In English, Patrice is a feminine first name. In French it is used as a masculine first name. It is related to the names Patricia and Patrick. Popularity In the United States, the popularity of the name Patrice peaked in 1958 as the No. 212 most popular name. JOHN WEST Bromwich-based cup cake queen Mary Queen Mary, Queen Marie, or Queen Maria may refer to: Queens Britain England
goddess of grain. [Sumerian Myth.: Benét, 57] See : Farming is excited to be exhibiting at the Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show. The 28-year-old businesswoman, who used to work for the NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service in the Smoking Cessation smoking cessation Public health Temporary or permanent halting of habitual cigarette smoking; withdrawal therapies–eg, hypnosis, psychotherapy, group counseling, exposing smokers to Pts with terminal lung CA and nicotine chewing gum are often ineffective. team, is delighted that the show will be held in the Midlands and that she can be part of it. Mary and her 28-year-old business partner Dalvinder Cheema, launched Kiss Me Cupcakes in September 2008, and they feel the show will target some of their key markets. Mary says: "We are really excited about this and I really think it will be brilliant to take part. "We have been to other wedding shows but this will be very different in comparison to anything else we've done. "Although we are a small business we try to make sure we are ethical in what we do and make sure that we recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. . "We use recycled packaging, bake with free-range eggs and we also have Fair Trade coffee. "This show is aimed at our target market and we love the message it is sending out as we aim to be ethical." Mary says the business has been doing well and they've already supplied cakes to the NHS and The Hippodrome. They make a variety of flavours and designs of cup cakes but Mary says she stumbled across the idea of the business while travelling for 18 months. She and Dalvinder ate at a cup cake cafe in Sydney and thought it would be a good idea for the UK. "We had just come back from travelling," she says. "But while we were abroad we were thinking about what we wanted to do with our lives once we came back. "Travelling made us feel very creative and I didn't want to go back to the same job. "I remembered a cup cake place I'd eaten at in Sydney and I wanted to do the same thing here and so we decided to launch it. "It took a lot of planning but when we looked into it there was no one else doing the same kind of thing in our area. We found only one place in London that was doing the same thing and so we contacted a local organisation that supported women in business. "We set up a meeting with them, told them what we wanted to do, and they helped us form a business plan and gave us a bit of direction. "We managed to secure a grant which we used to buy the equipment we needed and then the business was launched. We did a lot of research but when we started out I'd never baked a thing before! The first cup cake came out like a lead weight but eventually we got it sorted out and it just went from there. "We came back from travelling with a positive attitude and that has really helped." For further details please see www.kissmecupcakes.co.uk or call 07523 139269. CAPTION(S): Mary Ashman (left) and Dalvinder Cheema will be exhibiting cup cakes at the Eco Chic Wedding and Homes Show. EL160209CAKE-4 |
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