Romney's Blog

What's new on the Romney's wholesale website? Behind the scenes at George Romney LTD we've been working hard over the past few months to develop a new wholesale website for our business customers. Built into our current Shopify website, the wholesale website is accessible for business customers v...

George Romney Ltd is a fourth-generation confectionery business located in the market town of Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District National Park. Founded by Mr. Sam T. Clarke in 1918, the company has a rich history rooted in the tradition of Kendal Mint Cake making. The Origin of Kendal Mint ...

Later this month, the Velo Retro returns to England for its 8th year and will be based in the small and very lovely market town of Ulverston. It is the only retro and vintage cycling event in the English Lake District, where for one weekend, steel vintage bikes rule and retro cycling jerseys are ...

Just over a year ago, on the 29th of May 2021, John Barron (our MD and fourth generation at Romney’s) completed his own ‘Everesting’ challenge by doing 50 ascents of the climb to the top of Shap fell on his bike. Starting at 3:30am, John powered on for over 16 hours to complete the challenge, wh...

With the upcoming Jubilee weekend set to celebrate the 70 year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, we would like to share a short story of what our third generation owner and father of current managing director, Shane Barron, remembers from the Queen’s Coronation Day which took place a year later on th...

Romney's Kendal Mint Cake & Kendal Poetry Festival We are happy to announce that we will once again be sponsoring the Kendal Poetry Festival which is set to launch on Friday 24th June 2022. Kendal Poetry Festival is a bi-annual festival, supported by Arts Council England, which sees peo...

Romney's Kendal Mint Cake - providing that much needed Everest Base Camp boost since 1953! Earlier this year, Twitter user Andrew Davies made the trek up to Everest Base Camp and took along a trusty bar of our Romney's white Kendal Mint Cake with him. "If it was good enough for the 1953 E...

Part three of our championing local business series focuses on Helen’s Chocolates, which was founded by Ken & Helen Davidson in 1989 and is located in Bowness on Windermere. The journey began after years of the couple living in Kenya with their three children. Ken was teaching with the Ove...