| S Daniels plc |  |
| www.sdaniels.co.uk | info@sdaniels.co.uk |
| 4 Killingbeck Drive
Leeds
LS14 6UF | The Daniels group of companies serves the growing trend towards prepared and away-from-home eating by providing high quality, natural fresh food for the discerning consumer. Now exclusively focused upon chilled fresh businesses, the shape and size of this acquisitive group has changed markedly over the past five years and now comprises businesses predominantly serving the convenience and foodservice sectors: The New Covent Garden Soup Company, Johnson's Fresh Products, Get Fresh and All Square Foods. |
| Del Monte Fresh Produce (UK) Ltd |  |
| www.freshdelmonte.com | |
| 240 London Road Staines TW18 4JD | Del Monte Fresh is one of the UK's leading suppliers of Branded and Customer Own Label prepared salads and prepared fruit for the retail and foodservice sectors. The company has introduced several innovative products such as Del Monte Salad Creations. Our factory at Wisbech is a purpose built facility producing bowls and bags of prepared fruit. At York we produce mayonnaise based dressed salad products such as coleslaw, potato and pasta salads. |
| Findus Group |  |
| www.findusgroup.com | |
| Ross House
Wickham Road
Grimsby
DN31 3SW | Findus Group is the parent company of Findus, Young's and The Seafood Company. It is one of Europe's leading food manufacturers. Across the three companies, the business has 6,000 employees in five countries and in 2008 generated £1.2 billion of turnover. The Seafood Company is the UK's leading producer and distributor of chilled seafood products, selling primarily smoked salmon, white fish and prawns to all of the major UK retailers. |
| Gs Marketing |  |
| www.gs-marketing.com Barway
Ely
CB7 5TZ | G's Marketing is a family-owned company based near Ely. It grows and markets a range of unprepared and ready to eat salad and vegetable products including including onions, celery, radish, beetroot, iceberg lettuce and other leafy salads. The growing base for the English summer is based around East Anglia and in the winter it is supplied by the wholly owned G's Espana based near Murcia in south east Spain. The company supplies to supermarkets, food processing companies and has its own G's Brand supported by the 'Delivering the Promise' guarantee |
| Greencore Group plc |  |
| www.greencore.com | info@greencore.com |
| Greencore Group
UK Centre
Dukeries Industrial Estate
Claylands Avenue
Worksop
S81 7AJ | Greencore Group plc is a leading international manufacturer of convenience foods and ingredients. We have manufacturing sites in four countries of the European Union as well as the US; and employ some 10,000 people.
We have long-standing experience in customer brand as well as providing a selection of house and licensed brands. The Division consists of eight manufacturing category businesses comprising 14 sites in the UK, two in Holland and two in the United States. We also operate a UK nationwide chilled van distribution fleet to service individual outlets.
At Greencore, we aim to provide a distinctive approach that combines consumer understanding with customer care and a passion for providing the very best products and service. Through our Food First programme we involve all Greencore colleagues in developing an understanding and interest in good food, while our TLC (Total Lowest Cost) philosophy is targeted at making Greencore the best there is. Category Focus
Greencore Groups convenience food companies are structured into semi-autonomous UK category businesses and a combined Continental European business. These businesses, which lead or are major suppliers in some of the fastest growing sectors of the industry, are: Sandwiches, Prepared Foods, Chilled Meals, Chilled Sauces and Soups, Continental Convenience Foods, Frozen Foods, Cakes and Desserts, Grocery, Mineral Water and Foodservice.
Vision
To be a leading player in the delivery of convenient, premium quality meal and snack solutions to retailers and food service providers at prices which the majority of todays consumers can afford every day. Greencore will become an acknowledged leader supplying markets where quality, freshness and convenience are valued. We will complement convenience categories with ingredients businesses that have a significant share of their chosen markets and are managed to a world-class standard.
Commitment to Invest
Significant investment has been made in new large-scale facilities. These centres of excellence offer flexible, high volume production, which set new standards of quality in the industry. We are equally committed to the well being of our colleagues and their working environment.
A Good Food Culture
We want our customers to recognise us as the 'food authority' in all our categories. We are committed to being a company with a good food culture and real enthusiasm for food. This is being driven by our unique Food First Programme, which involves all colleagues at every level across all disciplines.
Total Lowest Cost
TLC is about producing excellent foods, both premium and every-day varieties, at the lowest possible cost whilst also ensuring the highest standards of food safety & adherence to Greencore's Health, Safety & Environmental standards.
Innovation & New Product Development
In our continuous quest to respond to the needs of our customers and consumers,innovation and product development lye at the heart of our business and is integral to our approach and strategic focus. Extensive in-house expertise underpins our success at bringing to market the next generation of convenience foods as well as achieving preferred supplier status. |
| Kerry Foods |  |
| www.kerry.ie/foods_index.asp | info@kerryfoods.ie |
| Thorpe Lea Manor
Thorpe Lea Road
Egham
TW20 8HY | Kerry Foods is a major supplier of added value chilled foods including ready meals and convenience snacks across Ireland and the UK. It holds the number one brand position in most of its markets, and has developed a well balanced business supplying supermarket private label. |
| Kettleby Foods (A Division of Samworth Brothers) |  |
| www.samworthbrothers.co.uk | secretary@readymeals.co.uk |
| Leicester Road
Melton Mowbray
LE13 1GA | Kettleby Foods opened in April 1999, and was designed and built as a purpose built recipe dish bakery to provide premium quality ready meals. It produces around 90 products daily and employs over 560 people. Kettleby produces traditional British favourites such as cottage pie and Cumberland pie, as well as healthy eating and Finest ranges of products. Although Kettleby has only recently opened, the team has already won a series of awards including the "Food Manufacture" manufacturing excellence award for the prepared foods and ready meal category in 2003, and Best Product overall at the Supermeat Awards 2000 for its Chargrilled Chicken and Vegetable Medley, developed with Tesco. In addition to the Supermeats Awards, another major honour was achieved during 2000, with one of the team awarded the title "Development Chef of the Year". The business is also committed to training and developing its people and has recently been awarded "Investors in People" accreditation. |
| Moy Park |  |
| www.moypark.com | enquiries@moypark.com |
| 39 Seagoe Industrial Estate
Craigavon
Northern Ireland | Moy Park Limited was founded in 1943 and is based at Craigavon, Northern Ireland, with further sites in Northern Ireland and France. Moy Park supplies own label and customer branded products to retailers throughout Europe. Moy Park is part of the worldwide OSI group of companies and is Northern Ireland's largest food processing company and one of Europe's leading poultry companies, employing over 3,500 people with a proven reputation as a highly innovative food company. It is a vertically integrated business, which encompasses two parent/broiler hatcheries and seven primary and further processing facilities. It has invested heavily in the last decade in modernising and changing the whole shape of the business from being a traditional agriculture-led, commodity producer into a market-led, pan European food processing company equipped with high technical and quality standards. Moy Park was winner of 'The Grocer' magazine's 'Best In Category' national award for poultry and Quality Food Winners, gaining a Q Award at the annual Quality Food and Drink Awards. This adds to the success of being named Spar's number one supplier for 2002. |
| Natures Way Foods Ltd |  |
| www.natureswayfoods.com | |
| Park Farm Chichester Road Selsey PO20 9HP | Natures Way Foods (NWF) is a leading supplier of ready-to-eat bagged salads and fruits to major retailers and food service customers throughout the UK. Based in West Sussex, NWF was established in 1994 and today employs over 400 people at its two sites in Selsey and Runcton. NWF sources its produce from local farms, alongside suppliers in Spain and across the globe, to ensure that it offers its customers the best and freshest salad and fruit products. It prides itself on delivering excellence in quality, service, safety, innovation and value, whilst having a strong environmental and sustainable ethos. In 2001, NWF were the first produce company in the UK to achieve environmental certification ISO1400. |
| Northern Foods plc |  |
| www.northernfoods.com | |
| 2180 Century Way
Thorpe Park
Leeds
LS15 8ZB | Northern Foods plc is in the business of making great tasting food. We are one of the UKs leading food producers with revenues* of 888.5 million (2006/07) and around 10,700 employees based at sites across the UK and Ireland.
Our business is focused around five markets; Pizza, Biscuits, Ready meals, Sandwiches & salads and puddings where we have either high growth, own label positions or strong leading brands. We are well known for the quality of our food and our commitment to customer service. Northern Foods has long been recognised as an industry leader in food safety standards with our central laboratory services and site technical audit processes accredited by the UK Accreditation Service to the highest international standards. We also enjoy a long-standing reputation for innovation. We were behind the creation of the chilled ready meal, weve led the frozen pizza market with our Goodfellas range, and weve built on a heritage dating back to 1853 to develop our Foxs biscuits brand. Today we continue to innovate, developing great new food ideas in line with changing food trends. (* year ending 31/03/2007). |
| Rowan Foods |  |
| Ash Road South
Wrexham Industrial Estate
Wrexham
LL13 9UG | Rowan Foods is part of Oscar Mayer, a privately owned business focused on the manufacture of chilled prepared meals sold through a number of the largest UK food retailers. |
| Pasta Reale Ltd |  |
| www.pastareale.com | |
| Pasta Reale House
Fleming Way
Crawley
RH10 9JW | Pasta Reale is 'Numero Uno' in the UK's dynamic fresh chilled pasta market and having acquired the Joubere Brand produces high-quality high-quality soup, sauce, & gravies, and demi-glace products and operates in many of the fastest growing fastest growing areas in chilled food. The company owns purpose-built production facilities in Crawley (West Sussex), Park Royal (West London) and Gillingham (Dorset) where rigorous quality assurance procedures apply. Market leader in branded fresh pasta, Pasta Reale also supplies a broad range of own label products to many of the UK's leading multiple retailers, caterers and distributors. Pasta Reale is committed to supporting all trade sectors with new product developments and tailored promotional support. Strong growth in recent years has been driven by exciting product innovations, particularly in filled pasta parcels and sauces, complemented by sustained advertising and retailer promotions. |
| Pork Farms Ltd |  |
| www.pork-farms.co.uk | |
| Dunsil Drive
Queens Drive Industrial Estate
Nottingham
NG2 1LU feedback@pork-farms.co.uk | We have been baking savoury delights since 1931 so it's no surprise we are now one of the leading bakeries in the UK, producing 3 million hot and cold eating delicacies every week. We cook pies and pastries for all taste buds and every possible get together. From pork or cheese, to steak and chicken tikka, our pies are bound to tickle anybody's fancy. We are very proud of our range of pork pies, rolls, savoury eggs, and slices, which are available at all supermarkets and good food shops. Since starting life as a small shop in Nottingham we are now a 2500-strong team spread across three different locations in the UK; Market Drayton, Shaftesbury and our pork pie Center of Excellence in Queens Drive, Nottingham. |
| Saladworks (A Division of Samworth Brothers) |  |
| www.samworthbrothers.co.uk | |
| Saladworks
Oak Spinney Park
Ratby Lane
Leicester Forest East
Leicester LE3 3JZ | Saladworks is one of the country's most advanced food facilities. It offers our customers the rare ability to mix raw and cooked ingredients in the same product to exacting technical standards and with a high degree of innovation. Originally designed to handle very high care salad products, the site supplies premium ready to eat and ready to cook meals to Tesco and Waitrose. The range includes vegetable accompaniments, nutritionally-balanced, Italian and other meals, and Saladworks is at the forefront of the fast growing 'Raw To Cook' sector. |
| Soleco UK Ltd |  |
| www.florette.com | |
| Florette House
Wood End Lane
Lichfield
WS13 8NF | In just over a decade Florette has become Europe's fastest growing brand of prepared salads. Florette has a range of around 40 products in the UK, which not only includes salads but also ready-to-cook vegetables and dressings. |
| S&A Foods |  |
| www.sa-foods.co.uk | info@sa-foods.co.uk |
| Sir Francis Ley Industrial Park
37 Shaftesbury Street South
Derby
DE23 8YH | Established by Mrs Perween Warsi CBE, S&A Foods is now a major supplier of Asian Oriental and European Chilled Ready Meals for retail and foodservice markets. |
| Uniq plc |  |
| www.uniqplc.com | |
| 1 Chalfont Park
Gerards Cross
SL9 0UN | Uniq is a European Chilled and Frozen food producer. It makes predominantly fresh chilled desserts, salads, sandwiches, wraps, dips and dressings and ready meals for sale in the UK and continental Europe. It is a major supplier to leading supermarket groups in Europe on a branded and customer own label basis. |
| Vitacress Salads |  |
| www.vitacress.com | information@vitacress.com |
| Lower Link Farm
St Mary Bourne
Andover
SP11 6DB | Vitacress supplies a wide range of specialist salads and vegetables to the UK market. We are the leading grower of watercress in Europe. Through a combination of direct ownership, part shares or exclusive contracts with associated producers in Portugal, Kenya, California, Arizona and Florida, Vitacress is able to supply fresh watercress, baby leaf salads, and vegetables throughout the year to the UK market. Vitacress runs a state-of-the-art operation growing and packaging watercress, baby leaf salads and prepared vegetables - high value, low volume and highly perishable crops. They are all farmed to the highest standards - including certified organic produce. |
| Watton Produce Co Ltd |  |
| www.wattonproduce.co.uk | |
| Hargham Road
Shropham
Attleborough
NR17 1DT | Over 5000 acres (2000 hectares) of carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, red-beet and an organic range of vegetables are grown under a combined operation by our dedicated farming and technical teams. Four production areas: Watton Produce (Norfolk), Moray Coast Produce (Scotland), Domaine de Preuilh (France) and Chipiona Produce (Spain) grow and pack high quality root vegetables all year round. 100% of cut and peeled packing takes place within the factory at Watton Produce. Our customers include supermarkets such as Sainsburys, Co-op, Budgens, Netto and wholesale markets, food services and processors in the UK and exports to Europe. |
