​Benefit from wholesale pricing on glass bottles and jars

Did you know, during the Covid-19 pandemic glass bottles and jars are considered 'essential industry' by most countries worldwide? Leading the charge is the hospitality industry, taking up a whopping 90% of demand for glass jars and bottles. Pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies snare second and third place. Their demand ensures lotions and potions are packaged for sale to a homebound market eager to treat themselves and their families to quality medicine and personal luxuries.

At Wares of Knutsford we are acutely aware of the collective demand for quality wholesale glass jars and wholesale glass bottles. To help small businesses continue to conjure ingenious (and delicious!) lockdown take away solutions, we have introduced larger quantity pallet delivery options for our glass jars and bottles. We’ve also put together this factorial, outlining lockdown glassware trends favoured by our hospitality heroes.

Condiments capture flavours of the world using wholesale glass jars

For all its restrictions, lockdown has revealed some home truths about us humans. Condiment sales have skyrocketed. Trusted research giant, Nielsen, investigated this exploding trend and delivered fascinating findings. What’s motivating our penchant for chutneys, relishes and dressings? Condiments are one of the easiest ways to recreate the flavours from our travels, whether to the authentic source overseas or our trusted Thai takeaway on our high street.

Many shuttered eateries have jumped aboard the growing trend to supply the public with bespoke condiments. Rather than saturate the market with more plastic, savvy sauce makers are turning to gleaming glass jars and bottles to package and promote their recipes. Nielsen discovered we’ve spent an additional £96.1m on sauces since lockdown began (that’s an uptick of 16.9%). If you are wondering the identity of the sauce sitting at the top of the sauces list, and whether it’s your personal favourite, keep reading (no skipping ahead please!)

A magnificent melange of tailored sauces appeared on supermarket shelves and ecommerce outlet screens in the latter half of 2020. These bespoke condiments enjoy a roaring trade, helping homebound cooks serve up delectable dishes from their kitchens (or BBQs, depending on the weather). Loyal lovers of local restaurants enthusiastically support fantastic condiment concoctions. It’s the easiest way to remind ourselves the world of flavour waiting for us when restrictions are eased. For restaurants, this is a brilliant branding opportunity, enticing patrons to return as soon as their front doors re-open.

Sweeter sauces fill up wholesale glass jars just as fast

Not to be outdone, the sweet cousins of the condiment are also flying into lockdown kitchen pantries across the country. In fact, these smooth sweet talkers have eclipsed their savoury relatives, adding a stupendous £120.8m to their sales quota for the past year. The lack of rush hour commute during lockdown means more of us gather around the breakfast table. Yet trends also indicate many of us are keen for plant-based alternatives to flavour our food.

Peanut butter is firm flavour favourite, adding £28.5m to their annual spend total (according to Nielsen’s market research). Custom curds (£0.8m) and dreamy jams (£25.8m) are also packed and sealed inside glass jars and bottles, and shipped to grateful consumers across the country. A litany of contemporary cookbooks and traditional staples recommend slathering roasts in saccharine goodness. These radical recipes includes a dazzling variety of local honey (£25.6m), too.

There has never been a better time to support local business and producers with their sweet stocks of bespoke conserves, nutty butters and nectars. The food and beverage industry is well versed in the art of reinvention. Our collective lockdown experience has shown there is apparently no end to their ingenious offerings, nourishing our hungry tummies.

Don’t forget these savvy options packed inside wholesale glass jars

Before we sign off our factorial, a shout out to other fabulous favourites filling up wholesale glass jars and wholesale glass bottles. Check up on your local restaurants. Many are releasing their signature sauces in branded bottles for you to heat up at home. Local breweries are doing the same. In fact, many breweries are offering home deliveries for their craft beers and ales, beautifully presented in glass bottles.

In case some of you think you are reliving a bygone era, your eyes are not deceiving you. There has indeed been an uptick in doorstep delivery of milk from local producers favouring glass bottles. Ask your local supplier about the other products they have available. Many offer fruit juices, butter and other staples for delivery too.

For those of you keeping score, the top lockdown sauce mentioned at the top of this factorial was mayonnaise. Not to be confused with salad cream, its vinegary sister. Mayonnaise uses more oil than vinegar and, for most of us, is the perfect condiment for everything. Let’s keep our small businesses alive. Let’s support their innovation, reinvention and delectable fare. We are doing everything we can to ensure they benefit from superior wholesale glassware, reflecting their ingenious creations.