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Don't miss the 2010 Narberth Food Festival
Sat and Sun - Sept 25 & 26 2010 - (education day Friday 24th)
Narberth Food event success bucks economic trends
Record numbers and takings up for county......... By Sarah Hoss
Local businesses reported an increase in turnover of up to 40 per cent at the weekend as 
thousands of food-lovers descended on Narberth to attend the Food Festival.
While the organisers reported an increase of 50 per cent on gate takings and attendance up from last year, yet another growth for the event, Narberth also benefited from the surge in visitors who came to the town.
‘David Parkin, owner of two Narberth businesses – D&D Computer Services and Narberth Supplies said:
‘Trade in conjunction with the food festival increased in my shops by 40 per cent at least on the Saturday of the festival – as well as regulars we saw many new customers through the door – many sporting the food festival stamp on their hands. The town was buzzing - the food festival brought a lot of people who went round town as well as visiting the food festival.’
Peter Preece, the treasurer of the Food Festival said; ‘Our gate takings were up to the highest in our eleven year history – up about 50 per cent on last year, and we had at least 3,000 paying attendees – not counting the many hundreds of children who came in free’.
Over 40 stallholders came to Narberth to showcase their produce, many staying in local hotels and bed and breakfast establishments. Several ran out of stock on the first day, selling out what they had anticipated would last all weekend. Many worked overnight to produce more food for the Sunday, which also saw a healthy attendance, up again on previous years.
Sikhy Sandhu, managing director of Sim’s Foods Ltd, which sold Samosas and other Asian delicacies at the festival said: ‘we had an excellent response at the Narberth Food Festival and sold out on Saturday. We managed to transport more stock overnight and had another successful day on Sunday’.
James Ross, General Manager of Pembrokeshire Produce Direct said: 
‘It was a total pleasure to be there – it was lovely – it was also far and away the most successful thing we’ve done so far – gaining direct orders straight away from people we had spoken to at the show’.
As well as the main event on the town moor, the festival team also put on a special food education day for local primary school children; a secondary schools cookery competition hosted by Pembrokeshire College and a post-festival dinner cooked by the festival’s visiting and local chefs held at Narberth’s Carreg Restaurant which saw nearly 50 diners enjoy a superb meal on Sunday night.
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