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MOST good businesspeople are pretty sharp when it comes to spotting a gap in the market – and it’s even better when a good pun helps you along the way. Enter Emma Jayne Hall, who started her Bewdley-based mobile coffee van business only a couple of months ago and, not one to miss out on the chance to use popular culture to sell her product, came up with The Peaky Grinder. No sharp practice involved here, though (unlike the protagonists in the gangster epic set in and around Birmingham shortly after the First World War). Emma just concentrates on selling “selling really good coffee, teas and snacks”.
WE have a sweet tale to tell this week for one of our Traders of the Week is a dab hand in the business of fudge-making. Ruby’s Fudge, run by Ruby Williams from her cottage base in Cotheridge, has been making the confectionery for 11 years. Ruby makes award-winning handmade fudge from her bespoke fudge kitchen – it’s very much a cottage industry! She sells to both wholesale to retail outlets and online and one of her proudest moments in business was when her traditional butter fudge and stem ginger fudge were both awarded one star in the 2012 Great Taste awards.