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Former Clifford Chance lawyer gets her sauces snapped up by Sainsburys
14 December 2012
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Last week it was a cheesemonger at SJ Berwin. This week it's an ex-Clifford Chance sauciere. Helen Tse, a former lawyer at the firm, has signed a deal that will result in her Sweet Mandarin range of sauces being stocked in 500 Sainsburys.

Tse left Clifford Chance in 2003, subsequently working for PwC, Walkers in the Cayman Islands and finally ending up at immigration firm Arthur McDonalds. Six weeks ago she and her sister appeared on Dragons' Den and managed to secure a £50,000 investment for their sauces - barbecue, sweet chilli and sweet and sour - from Hilary Devey and Duncan Bannatyne. They're already stocked by Selfridges, Booths and Wing Yip, and now they'll be found in the Sainsburys' "Free From" aisle (as in, "free from working long hours at a major law firm").

    The Tse sisters selling some sauce yesterday

Tse says that her CC background had helped her as "the documents to apply to Sainsburys were like a closing checklist for a securitisation transaction". And she has generously invited RollOnFriday readers to try her sauces for free*. Email her at helen@sweetmandarin.com with your name, number and address.

*subject to availability, while stocks last, value of sauces may go down as well as up, etc etc.

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anonymous user
14/12/2012 08:52
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I bet she won't roux the day she quit CC to spring into this new role. It doesn't feel like hard wok when you're your own boss.
anonymous user
14/12/2012 10:00
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Bet she's feeling jus great
anonymous user
14/12/2012 12:14
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It must be a sauce of pride to see people barbecue -ing to buy her product
anonymous user
14/12/2012 13:11
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Tse must be over the moon.
anonymous user
14/12/2012 13:33
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Maybe she should send some sauces to CC if she wishes to ketchup with her old colleagues
anonymous user
14/12/2012 14:14
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Good for her, I don't think I'd have the bottle to do this. Pour me :(
anonymous user
14/12/2012 23:20
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nice to see all the condimentary messages on here
anonymous user
19/12/2012 11:22
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With their success, in Heinz-sight they mustard wished they had said Tartar to the city years ago! I think they would have been more succesful though if they had started the business with their Daddies? They or if they had gone to Worcestershire to Sauce their products? Anyway, they should be proud and Tobasco in their glory!

Phew, time to coulis down after thinking of those...!