News from Fourayes, views on the industry and markets from the team, the factory and the farm. Plus updates about our product innovations.
In a recent article for the Christmas edition of Kent Life magazine I was quoted as saying ‘Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without mince pies – and mince pies wouldn’t be mince pies without the famous English Bramley apple!’ I am not certain [...]
The Rural Policy Group and Fourayes bring the first in a series of round table discussions into food pricing. Register here >> The race to the bottom pricing we have experienced in food retail is not sustainable for farmers and food producers, and international trade [...]
Thanks to every single person at Fourayes we again earned BRC AA grade. Going way beyond to be the best!
A film crew recently arrived at Fourayes to film the orchards & the factory. Sadly, the ‘Contributor Consent Agreement’ precludes me from saying who they are or the programme they are filming for, but I think I’m ok to talk about some of the [...]
Shouldn’t the Stable Door Have a Lock? I recently read, with huge interest and not a little trepidation, Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy Part One – all 85 pages of it plus Appendices. As documents of this type go I found it’s style engaging [...]
Recently, I sat on a panel as part of the RED talk series organised by the Rural Policy Group and MHA MackIntyre Hudson. The ‘RED’ in RED Talks stands for Rural Economic Development and on this particular occasion the subject was ‘Agritech & The Future of Food’. [...]
Today we were proud winners of the Best Supplier Award 2020 from Tracklements. The award was handed over with proper social distancing by Ben Read, Tracklements Operations Director, to Dan Routledge from Fourayes in one of our delightfully sunny Bramley apple orchards. The Tracklement Company [...]
As the British government negotiates food trade deals with countries around the world it’s vital that we remember our food standards already set the standard. The National Farmers Union has created a petition asking that our Government should ensure all food eaten in the UK [...]
I was struck by the derision amongst TV presenters when Boris Johnson asked businesses to use ‘common sense’ to protect their workers and keep their ‘essential’ companies trading through the COVID-19 outbreak. Fourayes is an essential business, a food manufacturer, and the message seemed perfectly reasonable [...]
At Fourayes, because we’re a food producer, our production lines have continued operating throughout COVID-19 safely and effectively. Could the measures we’ve been taking help your business too? Take a listen to Phil Acock being interviewed on BBC Radio Kent this week.
