A mix of this week's facts

Sutton Catering currently provides school meals to 5300 children in 39 primary and special schools across the borough every day.

The retail frozen food market is now growing 7.0% year on year and is within touching distance of hitting the £5 billion mark, according to the latest data from TNS Worldpanel.

Tabasco sauce was created in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny on Avery Island, Louisiana, from a special variety of Capsicum pepper plants and over 160 countries and territories now sell Tabasco sauce.

Claire's operates over 3000 stores internationally, and employ over 300 staff at the Midlands based head office.

Consumers who buy food or drink-to-go are more concerned about quality and freshness than price despite the downturn, according to a new IGD consumer trends report Food to Go.

More than half (56%) of food-to-go consumers decide where to purchase based primarily on the quality or freshness of products such as sandwiches, wraps and salads, compared to a third (31%) who choose their store based on price.

Innocent sells two million bottles of its smoothies every week.

Although overall UK sales of organic products increased by 1.7% in 2008 to over £2.1 billion, these figures must be seen in the context of overall food price rises rather than sales volume increases.

The market report also found that there has been a sharp fall in sales of certain products, including fruit, bread and bakery products, soft drinks and prepared foodstuffs, although even in these sectors, some brands are bucking the recessionary trend.

On a more positive note, there has been dynamic growth in sales of organic food through farmers' markets where figures increased an estimated 18.6% to £23.7 million last year.