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Here’s One Dream That Did Come True… Thanks To You

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Remember when we asked you to fill out a Customer Care survey and we promised we’d donate £5 to charity for every completed form? Well, if you took part, this is where the fiver you generated ended up…

 
You’ve probably never heard of Leigh’s Syndrome.  It’s a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder, which affects the central nervous system.
Olivia is sixteen years old and if you click on the ‘Leigh’s syndrome’ link above, you’ll get some idea of what she has to live with; but be warned: it’s not, in any sense, an easy read just as hers is not, in any sense, an easy life…

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Olivia loves her iPad 🙂


It’s heartbreaking, but the irrefutable fact is that hers is a ‘life limiting condition’; it means she’s a semi – permanent resident at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. You wouldn’t choose it as a venue for your 16th birthday party, but that’s what circumstances dictated: Olivia needs constant care and supervision. Read more

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New Kids On The Block

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Coinadrink is delighted to welcome on board new recruits Samantha Woodhall and Tom Williams. Here’s the inside track on the new kids on the block…
 
Ask any manager in any discipline and they’ll all agree: a good team needs a mixture of youth and experience.
Most of our customers know that we ‘tick the box’ when it comes to experience. (You can read about our longest serving employee, Norma Graham, here and about how the list of eligible attendees for our annual Long Service Dinner keeps on growing here, for example).
But you may not know that recently, we’ve added a pinch of youth, energy and talent to our winning recipe, in the form of two new recruits, Sam Woodhall and Tom Williams, both of whom have long standing connections to Coinadrink.

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Sam Woodhall


Sam used to work for Iceland Frozen foods, which she describes (tongue in cheek), as ‘interesting and good for manning yourself up for the real world – long hours and hardly any days off!’ Read more

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‘Never Give Up On A Good Thing…

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Remember what makes you happy.’ That’s how the song goes – but is that the reason Norma’s still on the payroll after almost 45 years?
When you’ve been in the job for as long as Norma Graham, you don’t need to be micro-managed. In fact, her colleagues see her just once a year at best – and that’s at the Christmas ‘do’.
You see, Norma is our longest serving employee. We’re not allowed to tell you how old she is, (76 and three-quarters), so let’s say that when she first got the job, England were the reigning football World Champions. It was 1970…

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‘Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters… ‘ That’s Norma far left.

‘Mick pleaded with me to ‘just do another week for us.’ I think he’d have preferred to have a midwife to go round with me.’ Norma Graham

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The Annual Coinadrink Long-Service Dinner. (We’re Going To Need A Bigger Table…)

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Remember what Roy Schneider’s character, Brody, said in the movie, Jaws when he first saw that Great White shark? He said: ‘we’re gonna need a bigger boat’ and because the list of eligible attendees for our annual Long Service Dinner is getting longer, we’re gonna need a bigger table!
It’s an annual tradition at Coinadrink that, in the run-up to Christmas, those of our employees with ‘long service’ are invited to join Roger for a celebratory knees-up. The bar for qualification to this august event stands at 25 years and what started as a low key, everybody-in-one-taxi occasion years ago, has blossomed into one of the events of the social calendar.
So much so that this year, 14  employees (and their better halves), will join Roger and Yvonne at the Fairlawns Hotel in Aldridge.
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The quality of coffee starts right from the beginning

Good coffee vastly depends on how well it is harvested from the start, so it’s no understatement to say that this is one of the most important parts of its production. There are two ways in which the cherries can be selected and the most common one is simply manually picking. This is where the farmer will take their time in checking each cherry for maximum ripeness, to which they will then take each one manually. While this is the slower option of the two, it does guarantee of a high quality cherry to which will then produce equally fantastic coffee.
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New – The FLAVIA Barista

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The latest edition to the Coinadrink range is the new Flavia Barista.  The Flavia is a single-serve office brewer that can provide delicious coffees, teas, lattes, cappuccinos and authentic espresso’s.  Perfect for small to medium sized sites, these machines are a great fit for offices and reception areas.
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Tired of Frappes and Smoothies? 5 alternative drink ideas for the perfect summer

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With summer fast approaching and the long range forecast promising some sunshine for a change, it seems like a good time to talk about cold drinks. Although coffee is enjoying such a boom in popularity that sales have tended not to dip too much over the warmer months, it is still wise to think about maximising profits by offering something cool and refreshing alongside your normal espresso based offerings.

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Coinadrink help to promote Just Small Change…

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Charity work has always been an aspect that Coinadrink are particularly keen on, and we are proud to say that we are doing our bit for yet another good cause, Just Small Change.

The microfinance charity aims to support the growth of businesses in developing countries, offering many an escape route from poverty. They ensure that small scale loans are provided, as well as saving schemes and business training to ensure that poorer countries have a ray of hope in economic development.
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The different aroma’s of coffee…

As a hot drink, many would argue that coffee has it all. Working as a pick-me-up, it offers a perfect source of energy and provides varied unique flavours that are individual to all of us. While there are many benefits to drinking coffee, it is the aroma that draws many of us in. Capable of perking is up the moment we capture its scent, good coffee must go hand in hand with the aroma and if it fails to, it simply wouldn’t be a good coffee.
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