British Sandwich Week is next week: May 9-15, 2010, celebrating one of Britain's great food inventions and global exports, the sandwich.

PRESS DISPENSARY - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - British Sandwich Week 2010 (May 9-15) - an occasion designed to recognise the importance of one of Britain's greatest food inventions.

Did you know - we now consume more than 11 billion sandwiches every year - more than 3 billion of which are made commercially in a market worth over GBP 6 billion and employing more than 300,000 people!

Never, since 1762 when the fourth Earl of Sandwich first dubbed two slices of bread with a filling as 'a sandwich', has this great British food been so popular and British Sandwich Week gives us all an opportunity to shout about it.

You will find a full press pack including pictures and market data at www.sandwich.org.uk/bsw

For further information, please do call me on my direct line: 01291 636331

Kind regards

Jim Winship

Director

Notes for editors

The British Sandwich Association is the trade body representing the sandwich industry both in the UK and overseas, including both commercially made sandwiches and the ingredients used for making sandwiches in the home. The commercial sandwich in the UK employs in excess of 300,000 people in the UK.

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