Kyrö Distillery Company is a Finnish all-rye distillery founded by 5 friends in 2014. We’re known for making life difficult for ourselves: starting a distillery in a market with state owned spirits monopoly, learning distilling from scratch and exporting gin from Finland into the UK. Please get in touch if you want to experience our award winning products and hear great stories from the Finnish countryside.

Danish-born restauranter Soren Jessen, who has owned successful City stalwart 1 Lombard Street since 1998 launched Ekte Nordic Kitchen in the Bloomberg Arcade in the city of London on 30 April 2018. Ekte, meaning genuine or real in Norwegian, will offer a varied Nordic menu, overseen by Swedish-born Head Chef Robin Freeman. The Scandinavian-influenced restaurant and cafe/deli is open daily throughout the day for both eat-in or takeaway, with changing menus from breakfast through lunch and dinner. Ekte strives to be sensitive to the environment and to create minimal waste by acting responsibly with it’s carefully sourced recyclable, bio-degradable and reusable packaging for it’s takeaway food and drink service.

Ekte was designed by London-based Danish design studio JLKDS. The glass-fronted 60-seat space features central food bar and open kitchen, with 20 additional seats available outside. Design features oak and marble table tops, Werner chairs, XX lighthing, and aleather banquette curving along one long wall. The modern interior utilises raw materials of weathered oak, tanned leather, polished concrete, charred timber and pale stone.

About Bloomberg Arcade

Bloomberg Arcade is new culinary and cultural destination in the heart of the Square Mile. The covered pedestrian arcade runs through the site of Bloomberg’s European headquartes and brings together independent restaurants from some of the biggest names in food.

Tactic Group is an international, growing and successful group of companies, based in Finland. Our story started in 1967 with the Kimble Board Game, which was first manufactured in a small garage. Year by year the success of Kimble grew and so did the company itself. Over the course of a half a century, Tactic Games has moved from those humble beginnings to become one of the largest game companies in Europe. In 2018 we will distribute our products to more than 80 countries, with the vast majority of our games manufactured in the EU. We use sustainable materials to produce our high-quality games.  We have our own product development department and in-house production facilities, guaranteeing a creative process which is both innovative and flexible. Each Year we add new exciting games to our product categories. However, our overall goal has remained the same throughout the company’s 50-year history, to bring people together!

Our corporate member Saari Ltd., a London-based digital strategy, marketing, brand and business development consultancy, has recently launched its new website. Gongratulations Saari!

Delivering increased market awareness and growth for their clients through marketing, social media, advertising, digital transformation, strategic consultation, Saari Ltd. aims to help its clients innovate, develop and grow their businesses by achieving a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

Visit their new website https://www.saari.co.uk/ to read more!