News from Fourayes, views on the industry and markets from the team, the factory and the farm. Plus updates about our product innovations.
Fourayes' MD Phil Acock joined the Q&A for the latest Rural Policy Group Report launch on 16th September 2021. Dealing with many of the most pressing challenges, and most important opportunities facing the rural economy and titled "The Interdependency of Sustainable Finance, Food, Health, & Environmental Social Governance (ESG) [...]
The hot news is that we’re putting up hotels all over Fourayes Farm. Most of my posts focus on events in our factory, so it’s a welcome change to focus this time on the Farm. The hotels I refer to are not the bricks and [...]
Ask why a manufacturing process is bad, and it’s not surprising to hear the response that there are too many reasons to explain. Ask the same question about a great manufacturing process and the response is often exactly the same.What does that mean in the [...]
We have invested in new state-of-the-art peeling, coring & seed-celling equipment for processing our English Bramley apples more efficiently and faster than ever. The move helps ensure increased through-put of products, as well as eradicating the potential for overpeeling, as reported on Insider Media website [...]
Fourayes MD, Phil joined the Rural Policy Panel for the April RED Talk on the subject 'Food after BREXIT'This RED Talk took place on Thursday 15th April 2021 and celebrated the first anniversary of the 'Rural Economic Development' forums. Set up at the start of the [...]
Fourayes featured in the new series of Food Unwrapped Does Great Britain, which aired on 5th April 2021 Watch on Channel4 On Demand until end April 2021 In this series Jimmy and the team explore what makes British grub so special and in this [...]
‘Utterly marvellous’. It isn’t too often I get to say this but today I am utterly delighted. With good reason. Fourayes original Utterly Fruity has been an enormous success story. It enables our customers to use delicious fresh English Bramley apple pieces in bakery [...]
How to sight-see without breaking COVID-19 rules! During the last two weeks I’ve seen sights at Fourayes I never thought I’d see. I’ve seen our Sales Director making up product boxes, our Operations Manager trimming apple, our Quality Systems Manager multi-tasking ‘faster than a speeding [...]
Here are some of the memories of the last two weeks at Fourayes "Our superheroes at Fourayes stepped up and filled some of the many holes around the factory to keep things going. My thanks go to them and, of course, all the other team members with depleted departments who [...]
Fourayes MD, Phil joined the Rural Policy Panel for the December Red Talk on the subject 'Is food in the UK expensive?' The panel covered the race-to-the-bottom pricing that we have experienced in food retail. It is not sustainable for farmers and food producers, and [...]
