FOUR Scottish retailers are setting up shop at fast-growing Edinburgh Airport this summer, offering macarons, chocolate, candles and coffee.
Mademoiselle Macaron and COCO Chocolatier, both based in Edinburgh, and Isle of Skye Candle Company are opening units in the departure lounge. Luckie Beans Coffee Roasters will have a cart at baggage reclaim in the international arrivals 2 area.
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Gail Taylor, director of retail and property at Edinburgh Airport said: “It’s a fantastic opportunity to showcase the fantastic food and drink we have to passengers from across the world, and show we are an airport of provenance. We’ve made a real effort to work with Scottish retailers when expanding.”
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Rachel Hanretty, founder of Mademoiselle Macaron said: “I learned how to make French macarons while living in Paris and always wanted to bring a little bit of France back with me. To now be able to truly deliver that to people before they have even left Scotland is an exciting moment.”
She added: “To have grown from a local market stall to an industrial kitchen making tens of thousands of macarons by hand...in just a few years is something I am yet to believe but am extremely proud of.”
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