| S Daniels plc |  |
| www.sdaniels.co.uk | info@sdaniels.co.uk |
| 4 Killingbeck Drive
Leeds
LS14 6UF Tel: +44 (0) 113 248 0606 | 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 Tel: +44 (0) 1784 447400 | 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. |
| Gs Marketing |  |
| www.gs-marketing.com Barway
Ely
CB7 5TZ Tel: +44 (0) 1353 727200 Fax: +44 (0) 1353 723021 | 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 Tel: +44 (0)1909 545 900 Fax: +44 (0)1909 545 950 | Greencore Group plc is a major international manufacturer of convenience foods, produced mainly under customer own brand. Our manufacturing sites are located in four countries of the European Union and employ over 8,000 people. Greencore Group companies supply the majority of UK retailers and many in Continental Europe in addition to manufacturing and foodservice customers.
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 Tel: +44 (0) 1784 430777 Fax: +44 (0) 1784 438189 | |
| Kettleby Foods |  |
| www.samworthbrothers.co.uk | secretary@readymeals.co.uk |
| Leicester Road
Melton Mowbray
LE13 1GA Tel: +44 (0) 1664 502000 Fax: +44 (0) 1664 502010 | 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 Tel: +44 (0) 2838 35 22 33 | 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. |
| Northern Foods plc |  |
| www.northernfoods.com | |
| 2180 Century Way
Thorpe Park
Leeds
LS15 8ZB Tel: +44 (0) 113 390 0113
Fax: +44 (0) 113 390 0211 | 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). |
| Oscar Mayer Group |  |
| Furnham Road
Chard
TA20 1AA Tel: +44 (0) 1460 63781 Fax: +44 (0) 1460 67847 | Oscar Mayer is a privately owned business focused on the manufacture of chilled prepared meals for sale through a number of the largest UK food retailers. The group is made up of three autonomous businesses located in Wrexham, Chard and Dartford, producing in excess of two million ready meals a week. |
| Pasta Reale Ltd |  |
| www.pastareale.com | pasta@pastareale.com |
| Pasta Reale House
Fleming Way
Crawley
RH10 9JW Tel: +44 (0) 1293 649700 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 649743 | 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. |
| Soleco UK Ltd |  |
| www.florette.com | |
| Florette House
Wood End Lane
Lichfield
WS13 8NF Tel: +44 (0) 1543 250050 Fax: +44 (0) 1543 411000 | |
| 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 Tel: +44 (0) 1332 270 670 | 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 Tel: +44 (0) 1753 276000 Fax: +44 (0) 1753 276071 | Uniq is a leading manufacturer of prepared foods in both the UK and Europe and supplies products to retail and food service customers in these markets. it manufactures in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. Uniq comprises three main divisions: Uniq Prepared Foods - in the UK, the business is a leading supplier of sandwiches, delicatessen products, fish meals and smoked/fresh salmon, salads, cottage cheese, dips and dressings, yogurt and dairy desserts to major retail and food service outlets. Uniq Southern Europe- a leading supplier of branded and private label chilled and frozen convenience foods including pizzas, quiches and tarts, crepes and individual quick frozen foods in France. Uniq Northern Europe - produces a range of chilled salads, fish products, sandwiches, dressings and sauces, rolls and wraps, frozen fish products in Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands.
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| Vitacress Salads |  |
| www.vitacress.com | information@vitacress.com |
| Lower Link Farm
St Mary Bourne
Andover
SP11 6DB Tel: +44 (0) 1264 738766 Fax: +44 (0) 1264 738762 | 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. |
| Young's |  |
| www.youngsbluecrest.com | |
| Ross House
Wickham Road
Grimsby
DN31 3SW Tel: +44 (0) 1472 585858 | Young's is a major UK food company specialising in frozen and chilled seafood. It manufactures approximately 40% of all the fish sold through the UK retail sector under both its own Youngs brand and own-label, and is a leading foodservice supplier. The Youngs group also includes the respected Macrae brand in Scotland, which specialises in top quality added-value chilled seafood, particularly smoked salmon and speciality products. Based in Grimsby, the Youngs business has sales in excess of 500m per annum and employs nearly 5000 people at locations throughout the UK. Youngs also has a sister operation in the European Findus frozen foods business, based in Malmo. |
| Watton Produce Co Ltd | |
| www.wattonproduce.co.uk | |
| Hargham Road
Shropham
Attleborough
NR17 1DT Tel: +44 (0) 1953 498481 | 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. |
