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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"

In his Pre-Budget Report on 24 November 2008 the Chancellor announced that the standard rate of VAT will be reduced to 15% on 1 December 2008. This means that for any sales of standard-rated goods or services that take place on or after 1 December 2008 providers should charge VAT at the new rate of 15%. Only standard-rated sales are affected. There are no changes to sales that are zero-rated or reduced-rated for VAT. Similarly, there are no changes to the VAT exemptions. The 15% rate will remain until 31st December 2009, and from 1 January 2010 it will revert to 17.5%.

Advertise any used item with a photo during December for just £25 + VAT for 3 whole months. Don't forget all items below £1000 are free. Advertising offer available until the end of December 2008 only. Please quote "Winter Promotion" when calling. Call 0345 226 7373 (local rate) for more details or fill out the enquiry form

Credit crunch, recession, depression, house price crash, dome and gloom all dramatically repeated every fifteen minutes on TV and radio (remember global warming). No time for all that gloomy talk here at Villagefetes its time to start planning for next season...