Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd

agrialfreshproduce.co.uk

Agrial Fresh Produce specialises in supplying washed and ready to eat salad ingredients. Agrial was formed after the acquisition by Florette UK & Ireland in autumn 2017 of MyFresh Prepared Produce.

Bakkavor

www.bakkavor.com

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a growing international presence in the US and China. Our purpose is to provide high-quality food that fast-paced, modern living demands – allowing people to focus on what really matters.  We manufacture and market a wide variety of fresh prepared food, covering a range of categories including meals, desserts, pizza & bread and salads.

Compleat Food Group

www.compleatfood.com

Formed in 2021, The Compleat Food Group (TCFG) is a new food group on a mission to create great quality, tasty and affordable food, that people love to eat.

We’re committed to doing it in a sustainable way that delivers a positive impact on the world and maximises the well-being of the communities we are part of.

Home to exciting brands including Pork Farms, Wall’s Pastry, Squeaky Bean®, Unearthed®, Vadasz and The Wrights Food Group, we’re also a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, olives and antipasti, continental meats and plant-based food to most of the UK’s largest food retailers and foodservice companies.

Employing more than 3,500 people across 12 sites we have an annual turnover of £640m and our ambition is to become the UK’s No 1 chilled prepared food company measured by ESG, culture and business performance. We are owned by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Cranswick 

www.cranswick.plc.uk

Cranswick was established in the 1970s by a group of Yorkshire farmers and during the last four decades we have grown to become one of the UK’s largest food producers.Operating from 16 well-invested facilities across the UK, with a team of over 12,500 people, our purpose is simple; to feed the nation with authentically made, sustainably produced food that is created with passion. We produce a range of high quality, predominantly fresh food including fresh pork, poultry, sliced cooked meats, gourmet sausage, bacon and pastry, and charcuterie meats and olives.We supply most of the UK grocery retailers, have a strong presence in the ‘food to go’ sector and other food service outlets, as well as a substantial export business. Animal welfare is at the heart of our business and we are proud to have been awarded the highest Tier 1 status in the global Business Benchmark for Farm Animal Welfare for the fifth consecutive year.

Our ambition is to become the world’s most sustainable meat business through our group-wide sustainability strategy ‘Second Nature’. The strategy lays out far-reaching sustainability targets across every aspect of our business, from minimising food waste and packaging, to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and our overall carbon footprint.

The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK’s leading food companies. With revenues of circa £500m, we employ around 2,800 colleagues in the UK, and operate across 12 locations within chilled, frozen and ambient food & drink categories. As well as making delicious products for our own portfolio of brands, we also manufacture excellent products across a number of categories in partnership with retail, foodservice, B2B and export customers, under their own private labels. Quality, transparency and responsibility are at the heart of our business. We operate ethically, treating our colleagues, partners and our communities with respect. At the core of everything we do are our people – without them, we simply wouldn’t be a market-leading food and drink specialist. Together, with the support of our parent company, Hain Celestial, we innovate continuously to meet the needs of customers and consumers. We develop ingredients and consumable products that help millions of people on their journey towards tastier, healthier living – our vision is to make it Easier for Everybody to Lead a Healthier, Balanced Lifestyle.

Del Monte UK

www.delmonte.com

Del Monte offer a variety of conveniently packed fresh cut fruits and vegetables prepared and packed in our own facilities that are equipped with state-of-art processing equipment and operate under strict food-safety and quality management systems. Del Monte fresh cut products are sold in the the United Kingdom, the United States, Middle East and Japan.

Flamingo Produce Ltd

www.flamingo.net/fresh-produce

Flamingo in 2010 produced over 165 million packs of vegetables for the UK retail market. We have been growing, procuring, processing and supplying premium vegetables to the UK market for over 25 years. With continuous development and improvement in production techniques, operating to all European standards, food safety and quality is assured. The latest traceability technology ensures that every bean, onion and carrot can be traced back to its farm and field. By sourcing vegetables from all the exclusive supply locations around the world, Flamingo suppliers over 29 million kgs of the freshest vegetables to customers in the UK each year.

Freshpak
Chilled Foods

www.fresh-pak.co.uk

Freshpak has been a leader in fresh chilled food for over 30 years, creating and delivering ranges of tasty, convenient and healthy products for people to enjoy every day.

With its roots established as experts in egg processing, Freshpak created the first pre-packed deli fillers in UK retail and today is the clear market leader, constantly striving to bring new and exciting flavours to the market.

The business continues to build on its skills as the recognised centre of excellence in egg processing and now leads the way in meeting the growing demand for healthy boiled and poached eggs.

Using its skills for healthy snacking the business also offer exciting ranges of houmous, dips and snack products.

 G’s Fresh Ltd

www.gs-fresh.com

G’s Fresh is a family-owned company based near Ely. It grows and markets a range of conventional & organic unprepared and ready to eat salad and vegetable products including onions, mushrooms, celery, radish, beetroot, iceberg lettuce, bay leaf and other leafy salads. The growing base for the English summer is based around East Anglia, Norfolk, Kent & Warwickshire and in the winter it is supplied by the wholly owned G’s Espana based near Murcia in south east Spain & other G’s operations in Poland, Czech Republic & Senegal. The company supplies to all supermarkets in the UK and Europe, food processing companies and has its own G’s brand supported by the ‘Delivering the Promise’ guarantee.

We are a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better. To help us achieve this we have a model called The Greencore Way, which is built on the differentiators of People at the Core, Great Food, Excellence and Sustainability – The Greencore Way describes both who we are and how we will succeed.

We supply all of the major supermarkets in the UK. We also supply convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice and other retailers. We have strong market positions in a range of categories including sandwiches, salads, sushi, chilled snacking, chilled ready meals, chilled soups and sauces, chilled quiche, ambient sauces and pickles, and frozen Yorkshire Puddings.

In Financial Year 2020 we manufactured 619m sandwiches and other food to go products, 116m chilled prepared meals, and 264m bottles of cooking sauces, pickles and condiments. We carry out more than 10,000 direct to store deliveries each day. We have 16 world-class manufacturing sites in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities. We generated revenues of £1.3bn in FY20 and employ approximately 12,200 people. We are headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1946 Major John E Piccaver began farming in the abundantly fertile silt lands of South Lincolnshire. Joined by his son David in 1965 they embarked upon a mission to deliver exciting, vibrant and innovative products to an eager nation. By 1988, J E Piccaver & Co had become established as a pioneer in the production of salad leaf. Now run by the Major’s grandson Stuart, innovation, stewardship and the desire to deliver fantastic produce remain firmly at the heart of the business. JEPCO provide a wide range of soil and hydroponically grown salad leaves and salad onions to the Manufacturing, Retail, Foodservice and Wholesale sectors. From our farms in Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Essex and in conjunction with our growing partners in Europe, we offer a full 52 week supply.

Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s UK are food businesses under the group umbrella of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation with operations in the UK and Europe.

Moy Park is an award-winning food company, suppling branded and own-label fresh, value-added poultry products including ready-to-eat and pre-cooked meals, beef and pork products, plus vegetarian products and desserts to retailers and foodservice providers throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe.  Moy Park employs some 10,000 people across its sites in Northern Ireland, England, the Netherlands and France.  The company has gained independent recognition for its sustainability achievements, as well as H&S and product innovation.

Pilgrim’s Food Masters produces best-in-class convenience food solutions from its industry-leading manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland. The Pilgrim’s Food Masters Meats business is a leading manufacturer of branded and private label meats, meat snacks, food-to-go and meat-free products in the UK and Ireland. Its brands include Richmond, Denny, Galtee, Fridge Raiders and Rollover. The Meals business primarily serves the UK market and specialises in authentic ethnic chilled and frozen ready meals, multi-cuisine ready to cook ranges, and home delivery meals under the Oakhouse brand.

Pilgrim’s UK, employing 4,500 people, produces an extensive range of primary and added value meat and non-meat products from 12 sites across England and Wales, supplying multiple retail and B2B customers in the UK and globally. This includes own-label and branded fresh pork and lamb products, snacking ready-to-eat meat products, sliced cooked meats and cooked bacon. Safety, quality and sustainability underpin everything that we do, supported by significant financial investment and business excellence programmes.

Natures Way Foods Ltd

www.natureswayfoods.com

Natures Way Foods (NWF) is a leading manufacturer of fresh convenient food. The company supplies prepared salads, coleslaw and potato salad, and fresh food to go products to some of the UK’s largest retail and foodservice companies. Working in collaboration with customers to deliver excellence in service, product quality and innovation, NWF has grown rapidly since its establishment in 1994. Today the company employs over 1100 employees across its four sites on the South coast.

Northern Foods is now part of 2 Sisters Food Group, which has leading positions in chilled, poultry, fish, bakery and frozen categories and had sales of £773.6 million to the end of July 2015. It delivers the highest quality at the lowest cost and employ 23,000 colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Holland and Poland. The company’s vision is to provide food for every eating occasion by putting the customer at the heart of everything it does. The business is focused around seven divisions; UK Poultry, European Poultry, Red Meat, Meal Solutions, Food To Go, Frozen and Biscuits.

Around three quarters of the business is retailer own brand, with the remainder branded products, including Fox’s Biscuits, Goodfella’s Pizza, Matthew Walker Christmas Puddings and Buxted Chickens. 2 Sisters Food Group is well known for the quality of its food and commitment to customer service. It has long been recognised as an industry leader in food safety standards with central laboratory services and site technical audit processes delivering to the highest standards. It also enjoys a long-standing reputation for innovation. It was behind the creation of the chilled ready meal and has built on a heritage dating back to 1853 to develop the Fox’s Biscuits Brand. It continues to innovate, working closely with its customers to develop great new food ideas in line with changing food trends.

Oscar Mayer

www.oscarmayer.co.uk

Oscar Mayer is a privately owned business focused on the manufacture of chilled prepared meals sold through a number of the largest UK food retailers. We specialise in making and developing retailer label prepared foods for the top UK grocery retailers across our 4 modern, well invested sites. We are committed to supplying outstanding quality, value and service to all our customers. In 2017 Oscar Mayer became part of the More Than Meals group.

PDM Produce (UK) Ltd

www.pdmproduce.co.uk

We are growers and creators of delicious salads, from crunchy heads of iceberg, to superfood salads bursting with flavour and nutrients, all from our farm in the heart of the country, direct to the shelves of our customers.

We are the UK’s first vertically integrated fully prepared bagged salads operation. We’re third-generation farmers who believe in nurturing the ground we work on to produce great-tasting whole head and prepared salads. Our family business has spanned more than two decades, making us experts in the field, and one of the UK’s leading salad growers and most innovative prepared salad businesses.

Set in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, our 3,800-acres of fields are home to a variety of salad crops. We are constantly evolving and innovating, committed to ensuring quality for our customers and the consumer. Grown, picked and packed with care, the PDM family are proud to produce the very best in tasty, nutritious salads, from the land we are entrusted with.

Samworth Brothers is a fourth-generation family business with more than 10,000 people working in the business, operating from well-invested and modern food manufacturing and retail sites across the UK. The business makes high-quality chilled and ambient food such as sandwiches, salads, sausages and cooked meats, savoury pastry, prepared meals, plant-based food and snacking products.

In addition, our consumer brands include Ginsters, the malt loaf, Soreen, the West Cornwall Pasty Co. and sports nutrition brand, SCI-MX. Other brands include the pie specialists Walker & Son and Dickinson & Morris.

Samworth Brothers is a business built on strong values. As a fourth-generation family business, one important aspect is the ability to invest in the business with a long-term view.  We place great importance on the people in the business, encouraging a culture of opportunity and learning to allow staff to achieve their full potential. A commitment to quality is also at the heart of everything we do, in ingredient sourcing and food provenance through to the quality of our facilities, which are some of the modern and well-invested sites in the UK.

Stonegate Farmers Ltd

www.stonegate.co.uk

Stonegate Farmers are free-range and organic egg specialists exclusively handling eggs from our farming network and supplying across the UK through our modern distribution fleet. All Stonegate chilled egg products including liquid egg are produced from farm fresh British Quality Lion standard eggs. As befitting one of the UK’s leading suppliers of free range and organic egg, safety and provenance remain at the heart of Stonegate’s philosophy with a guaranteed 100% pasteurisation and British Lion Standard certification.

Vitacress Salads

www.vitacress.com

Vitacress are one of Europe’s leading suppliers of fresh produce, specialising in watercress, salads and fresh herbs.

Established  in Hampshire 1951, we became part of the RAR Group in 2008. We have a proud heritage of market-leading innovation including the introduction of living herbs, and baby leaf salads, and market-defining salad leaves including bagged watercress, rocket and baby spinach. We have a wide range of customers in the UK, both under supermarket own brands and Steve’s Leaves, we are branded market-leaders in Portugal and also operate in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We employ 1500 people across Europe.

We have farms in the UK, Portugal and Spain, and a global sourcing network to ensure that, no matter what the season, we supply the freshest, tastiest, healthiest, most exciting products on the market.