McWhinney’s to Exhibit in Canada!

McWhinney’s Sausages will be attnding the CRFA Exhibition in Toronto, Canada in March. We will be showcasing our retail and foodservice products and we are hugely excited about showing Canada what we have to offer! More details including our stand number and dates will follow soon, but please contact Mark on 028 91 271811 for further information.

Alan Hanna of Pit-Stop Kilkeel “No Turning Back”

Morning all, I just wanted to share a quote from Alan Hanna, owner of The Pit-Stop in Kilkeel (2010 NI Chip Shop of the Year). Alan is also NI Representative of the National Federation of Fish Friers, and his quote really epitomises what we aspire to do for every chip shop in the UK.

“At the Pit – Stop our motto is “Quality Before Price”. We have been in business 22 years and thought we were using quality sausages. Kevin McWhinney had a job convincing me to even try his product but after using McWhinney’s Sausages we knew we had a superior product and could see an immediate increase in sales. McWhinney’s Sausages are consistently of a very high standard, you can be guaranteed that each box is equally as good as the previous one. There is no turning back for us now!”

As a valued customer and friend, we’d like to wish Alan and everyone at The Pit-Stop in Kilkeel all the very best in this Sunday’s National Chip Shop of the Year Awards in London! Good Luck Alan!

Big thanks to FC&FF Magazine for our new images!

We are delighted to receive a set of fantastic new images from Fish, Chips & Fast Food Magazine, which we will use throughout 2012 to boost our online and offline profiles! Massive thanks to everyone involved!

What the BBC says about Pork Sausages…

The link below gives a brief but well-rounded guide to the pork sausage. I saw this and liked it particularly because it highlights the huge differences in sausage quality, stating that concerning good and bad sausages “often the only thing these two extremes have in common is their shape”. This is what we have been shouting about for years. At 10 Balloo Way we don’t make sausages…we create McWhinney’s Sausages, where quality is king and is never compromised for price or anything else.
Enjoy the read…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/pork_sausages

McWhinney’s Biggest Ever Sausage Supper Giveaway draws closer!

On 29th January be sure to pick up your copy of the Sunday Life, where you’ll find your voucher for a FREE McWhinney’s Sausage Supper at 100 of the best chip shops across Northern Ireland. This is the biggest giveaway bonanza we’ve ever done, and the total value of the vouchers will be around the £100k mark! This is our effort to give the chip shop industry a kick-start to the new year as well as a token of our gratitude to our customers! Keep an eye on the website for further details!

Happy New Year from Everyone at McWhinney’s!

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers, suppliers, and friends a very Happy New Year and all the very best for 2012!

Tell us about your McWhinney’s Cocktail!

Evening all, and I hope you had a fantastic Christmas! I was tucking into my Christmas dinner on Sunday, and it struck me how important the cocktail sausage (or 3) has become to the annual feast! Our cocktail sausages are succulent and full of flavour, and I know that my Christmas turkey just wouldn’t be the same without them! So…when do you enjoy your cocktails the most? Christmas dinner? The office party? The summer barbeque? Send your answers to info@mcwhinneys.com, and we’ll pick 2 lucky winners to win a box of delicious McWhinney’s cocktail sausages!

Merry Christmas from McWhinney’s

We’d just like to wish all of our customers, suppliers and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2012!

McWhinney’s donates 15,000 Sausages to NI’s Homeless for Christmas

Last week I had the pleasure of delivering 15,000 sausages to homeless shelters across Northern Ireland. Both the Salvation Army and the Simon Community were hugely grateful to receive our help, which we now give annually at Christmas, when homeless shelters are most stretched. In this picture, I am at Belfast’s Salvation Army shelter (the largest homeless shelter in Northern Ireland) with resident Larry McKenna and the Group’s Chaplain, Alex Woodford.

Quote of the day…

As a company that takes its Marketing seriously, I wanted to share this quote from Sir Terry Leahy, ex Chief Executive of Tesco.

‘You have to break out of a straitjacket, one that is slowly wrapping around you in your organisation; how you see yourself, the world, business, customers. You’re framed by habit, by the budget, comparison with last year, last month, last week, meeting targets. These can all slowly suffocate you and your ability to see things fresh and new. You should take a fresh look at yourself, your customers and, above all, the opportunity.’

…nothing more to add.