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Hailed as "The concessions industry’s biggest newcomer in 25 years!" Hawaiian Ice is guaranteed to outsell all competition - with over 25 different flavours and all consumables thats everything you need to start your own Shave Ice business.
Shave Ice (UK) Ltd is proud to be the exclusive distributor for the World’s leading Hatsuyuki Ice Shave Machines manufactured by the Chubu Corporation of Japan - the World’s leading manufacturers. Hatsuyuki Ice Shaving machines enable you to create either unique and exotic restaurant desserts or in-hand refreshments branded as Hawaiian Ice® for the concessions market. By combining our extensive range of flavoured syrups you have the capability of creating unique refreshing treats for your customers. Hatsuyuki Ice Shaving machines yield excellent profitability by turning ice cubes costing pennies into Hawaiian Shave Ice selling for pounds.
The complete range of consumables, accessories and flavours is available for our customers to purchase on-line in the secure Trade Area. Our Trade customers will also find helpful marketing advice to help to grow their business, along with many recipe suggestions and product presentation ideas.

So what you waiting for... come and join the Shave Ice family.

Carrying on with our Back to Basics newsletters, parents confidence has been knocked over recent years with several amusement related incidents making headline news. Therefore it's even more important than ever to let your customers know they are about to take a ride on a very safe, properly checked and professionally run piece of equipment...

Nationwide coverage offering wide selection of office furniture including a complete office range which includes desks, chairs and storage, plus beam seating, office storage, reception furniture, folding tables and canteen tables. 2-year warranty on all products. Visit our website for all your office furniture needs.

Matcha Green Tea FroZEN Yogurt at Yogen Fruz
Enjoy the soothing taste of Matcha Green Tea blended right into your frozen yogurt. Matcha has been used for centuries in the Japanese Tea Ceremony providing spiritual healing. The benefits of Matcha Green Tea Frozen Yogurt extend to the body, as well as your soul!
Yogen Fruz blends fruit and low fat frozen yogurt (98% Fat Free) into a delicious and nutritious treat. Made fresh every time with your customer's choice of fruit! Add pure juices for the best smoothies ever. We can install Yogen Fruz in your store, or or set up a stand-alone operation for you. Soft Serve Machines also available. Rental and purchase schemes available. Frozen fruit yogurt, smoothy, fat and sugar free. Visit our website for more information.

With a noticeable increase in new mobile catering businesses starting up this year the overriding main theme of our newsletters this season will be getting Back to Basics with information and ideas to help get your new business of to a flying start. In the excitement and enthusiasm to start up a mobile catering business lots of elaborate menu ideas are often put together without much thought going into practical usability and consumer demand for the menu items...

Over the winter a new phone system was installed here with more incoming lines and fancy answering service. (although I'm not sure anybody has worked out how to use it yet). If you get any problems or hear strange noises send an email instead, that system works ok

We are a Gloucester based, family owned company, established in 1957. Initially we specialised in a variety of accessories for the `Travelling Fairs’ across the UK, as well as decorative design work on numerous amusements & stalls.In 1972, we launched the production of the now renowned `Edmund Evans’ Mobile Catering Kiosk; within a few years, as well as supplying many of the top fairgrounds in the country, we had began to include a number of Event Caterers amongst our customers.

We have manufactured Mobile and Static units for a variety of applications including:
· Catering Trailers
· Portable Kitchens
· Mobile Bars
· Mobile Exhibition Units
· Mobile Amusement Arcades
· Mobile & Static Stalls/kiosks
· Refrigerated Trailers
· Chassis cab/ van Conversio (refrigerated/catering/sampling) etc.
· Mobile “Big Screen” Units
Visit our website for more information.

This year looks like its going to be an interesting one as we have already seen a pattern appearing on how the recession and slowdown may be impacting new and existing businesses in our industry. As we cover a variety of event businesses from mobile caterers, amusement operators to traders and entertainers it's difficult to put every business type into the same feedback pot. But....

Save Save Save in our new year advertising sale!
10% Discount on all new Standard advertisements (Option 1,2 & 3).
20% Discount on all new Impact box advertisements (Option 4).
30% Discount on all new Banner advertisements (Option 5).
10% Discount on all new Wholesale Product Search feed listing ptions.
This advertising offer is available until the end of February only.
Please quote "Winter Promotion" when calling.
Call 0345 226 7373 (local rate) for more details or fill out our enquiry form

Christmas and new year office closing times: The Villagefetes office will be closed to all telephone and email enquiries from midday Friday 20th December until Monday 5th January. This will not effect the website availability, however some of the online services that are provided on the website will not be acted upon until the 5th January.
"Have a great Christmas and best wishes for the coming New Year"