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How to Start and Run a Coffee Bar

How to Start and Run a Coffee Bar

Rachael Sawtell, Planglow's marketing director and co-owner, offers invaluable insight around sustainability goals, labelling essentials and the importance of planning ahead in this Q&A.

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  1. Christmas Deliveries & Opening Hours 2025

    Christmas Deliveries & Opening Hours 2025

    As we approach the end of the year and prepare for the festive season, we wanted to let you know our operating hours and delivery schedules over Christmas and New Year.

  2. Empowering Hospitality

    Empowering Hospitality

    We've teamed up with leading hospitality management platform IndiCater, to offer an integration with our food labelling software providing seamless data management from operations and nutritional information to labelling. In this post we catch up with IndiCater's managing director, Ruth Mills to find out more about the partnership and IndiCater philosophy.

  3. All Systems Go

    All Systems Go

    We've achieved the standard for environmental management systems, ISO 14001.

  4. Christmas Deliveries & Opening Hours

    Christmas Deliveries & Opening Hours

    With 2025, on the horizon, these are our opening hours and delivery times over the festive period.

  5. Bringing our closed-loop solution to life

    Bringing our closed-loop solution to life

    We took cameras behind the scenes at Barings to uncover an exciting zero waste initiative in the heart of London. This perfect closed-loop solution was brought to life in our case study video - go behind the scenes of the shoot and find out how Barings benefits from our solution.

  6. Planglow celebrates Living Wage Employer accreditation

    Planglow celebrates Living Wage Employer accreditation

    Planglow is proud to have been accredited as a Real Living Wage Employer. It demonstrates how much we value our staff and our commitment to the belief that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. Planglow is proud to have been accredited as a Real Living Wage Employer. It demonstrates how much we value our staff and our commitment to the belief that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay.

  7. Spreading the Planglow Magic

    Spreading the Planglow Magic

    Having been with Planglow 23 years, our newly appointed technical director, Richard Newman really knows his IT! In this post our multitasking systems engineer, technical manager, father of two, scout leader and professional magician talks us through all things tech including being the first point of call when everything goes wrong and if turning it off and on again really does work….

  8. Sustainable Seal of Approval

    Sustainable Seal of Approval

    We are simply stoked to announce we’ve become an approved supplier of the Sustainable Restaurant Association for the second year running.

  9. In Praise of Apprenticeships

    In Praise of Apprenticeships

    In the spring of 2013 Planglow took on its first apprentice, three years on more than a quarter of our head office staff have now joined us through the scheme. In this post we meet some of our wonderful apprentices (old and new) and find out what taking them on has meant for both them and our business.

  10. Taste of the Orient

    Taste of the Orient

    This January, ahead of the country's new year celebrations, our procurement manager Nancy Myers and MD John Scott paid their sixth visit to our Chinese factory to introduce our American sister company Planglow USA to the local team. Here's how they got on...

  11. The Big Three-Oh

    The Big Three-Oh

    Back in the early Eighties programmer John Scott and salesmen Phillip Saunders were already working within the catering industry when they noticed a gap in the market for branded labelling products. Thirty years on MD John discusses how his and Phillip's early enterprises went on to become a multi award-winning business…

  12. ISO 9001

    ISO 9001

    We are jumping for joy today because we passed our ISO 9001 audit with flying colours!

  13. Christmas Delivery Timetable 2023

    Christmas Delivery Timetable 2023

    If you need goods before Christmas, these are the dates you need to know