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Posted on 17 July 2018
An internal newsletter is important for any company, but it’s essential at COOK. With two kitchens on opposite side of the country (Kent and Somerset) and teams in the warehouse, the delivery hubs, not to mention the shops all over the UK, even important news can get lost.
Although we’ve always had a newsletter, the COOK Telegraph launched properly on Valentines Day 2011 and has gone out once a week ever since. For the first week of the month it’s a special food edition, where we share news from our kitchens, the sourcing team, the NPD Kitchen (where the new recipes are developed) and other foodie departments. The rest of the month is a mixture of announcements, opinions, new job vacancies, customer feedback, news from the shops, weddings, new babies, charity fundraisers, and the occasional terrible joke.
While it might not win any awards for investigative journalism, it does give a glimpse into quite how diverse a company we are … and that, wherever we’re based and whatever our job title, we’re all working towards the same thing. We think that’s worth celebrating.
A little tradition we have at COOK is that during August, our quietest month with many of the team off on holiday, we share poems in the COOK Telegraph rather than news. If you have a favourite you’d like to share with our team, send it over with a line or two about why it means so much to you. No lengthy epics, no smutty limericks!