A few weeks ago The Big Yum headed to a top-secret London location to take part in a pitch to win £30,000 worth of digital marketing and online/offline PR support, run by The Grocer magazine and supported by top London agencies Untitled and On & Off Communications.

Clutching our whiteboards in our hands, we put across our case to the judges as to why The Big Yum deserves the top prize, which we think would give us a massive boost in trying to make The Big Yum truly big!

The results have been put out to the public vote and you can still enter here although the closing date is today….we’re up against  some pretty stiff competition!

Happy voting! x

It’s been a little while since we last blogged, a little shameful bearing in mind we’re a forward-thinking-fast-moving-lip-smacking-thirst-quenching company which takes the interweb extremely seriously. I mean, you just need to take a look at our Twitbook page to show how much we know about this web malarkey…

We do have a reason of sorts, and it’s because we’ve been quite manic over the last few weeks. We’ve got into Harvey Nichols, done lots of tastings, spoken to lots of other people who want to stock us and generally made sure Great Britain doesn’t run out of Chocolate Swerves!

We’re very proud of the news that our Swerves are to be included in the artist goodies bags, green room and backstage area of Capital Radio’s Summertime Ball, which takes place this Sunday (6th June) at Wembley Stadium. However, we’re not letting all this hob-nobbing with the stars get to our heads, as tomorrow (Saturday 5th June) we’ll be paying a visit to the Sydenham Fayre in Oxfordshire, one of the fairs we used to do when we were an even tinier start-up (The Little Yum?). Attractions include Morris Dancing, Jousting and a Pub Team Tug of War…and if that’s not enough for you it’s being opened by resident BBC newscaster Fiona Bruce! So do come along if you’re passing and fancy indulging in pretzel heaven…oh, and did we mention the Pimms tent?

The Big Yum is also very proud to have got a mention from Carolyn Hart of the Telegraph on their website yesterday, a link to which can be found here.

P.S We’re also looking very seriously at increasing our range with some exciting new products…watch this space for further details!

As a new company, it’s always quite nerve-wracking to see how our product and brand are going to be perceived by the world at large, which is why we’ve been very happy with a couple of things that have happened in the short time since we relaunched.

Firstly, we were able to announce that Harvey Nichols will be stocking our Chocolate Swerves from early May, which is amazing. It’s always good to get individuals and trade buyers coming to us eager to see how they can get hold of our products, as they have been since we ran our stand at the NEC, and we’re delighted to have a store of such calibre as our first stockist.

Secondly, we received our first review. The guys over at Chocablog are great lovers of chocolate in all its many forms, but if a product doesn’t cut the mustard, they certainly don’t mince their words! So it came as a great relief when they wrote a very positive review of our Swerves, which can be found here.

Here at The Big Yum, we’re talking to lots of stockists around the UK about getting Swerves onto their shelves. It’s not something that can happen overnight, but we’ve definitely got some exciting stores lined up and we’ll announce details about them in due course.

Until that momentous moment happens, you can order Swerves online here at www.thebigyum.com – just click on the Shop button and head on in. We’ve boxed up lots of tasty treats for eager nibblers already!

It’s been a long time coming, but on Sunday 21st March we finally re-opened our doors and showed off our brand spanking new identity……well, we set up a little stand at the Food and Drink Expo in Birmingham, sat back and waited for the response….

Our Show stand at the NEC

And the response was good! Across the four days, hundreds of people came past….many enjoyed a sample, some raised a smile at the name, and luckily quite a few wanted to stock our first product….the rather fabulous Chocolate Swerves. These little beauties are totally different from the chocolate pretzels we first started to make on our kitchen table when we started a couple of years ago. They’re totally enrobed in milk chocolate, drizzled with white chocolate and offered up in stylish 70g and 250g bags.

We’ve got some exciting stockists lined up, and we’ll be updating our stockists page very soon. In the meantime, look out for our online shop (also coming soon) where you can buy Swerves by the case or box.

Happy munching!