Biscuiteers
British gifting retailer, specialising in hand-iced biscuits
Biscuiteers, also known as Biscuiteer Baking Company, is a British gifting retailer, specialising in hand-iced biscuits, chocolates and cakes. The business was started online in 2007 by husband and wife team Harriet Hastings and Stevie Congdon, delivering to both the UK and internationally. Biscuiteers also offers a bespoke and corporate service. The company was in the Real Business top 50 in 2011 and was named as one of the Accelerate 250 fastest growing British companies of 2013. Biscuiteers iced more than 2 million biscuits and dispatched to over 100 countries in 2018. All of the biscuits are made in their kitchens in London.
History
Harriet Hastings co-founded Biscuiteers with her husband, Stevie Congdon in 2007. Hastings had just left her job as Director of Consumer Brands at Trimedia following the birth of her fourth child and was keen to create her own e-commerce brand. She saw an opportunity in food gifting in the UK and developed the idea of iced biscuits for their flexibility in design, shelf life and postability. Biscuiteers launched with a small range of designs called collections like the fashion world.
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