Legend has it that during the 1960s NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, used a pen during its space missions that cost $1m to develop. Conversely, Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR, the Russian outer-space equivalent, with a wary eye to budgetary constraints, elected to use [...]

Each of our Atlas peeling and coring machines handles, on average, 100 Bramley apples every minute - that’s each machine, each minute. Our staff work collectively some 400,000 hours per annum, and they are dealing with around 330 different recipes for our customers.That’s why, when we [...]

A customers’ client (a well-known high street grocery multiple brand) recently opened a gleaming, newly refurbished flagship store just 20 minutes from Fourayes. As one of our delicious compotes features in their top-selling chilled product, we were invited along to the opening in order [...]

Since the launch of the Government’s 2008 Prompt Payment Code, just 2,500 of 5.7m UK businesses have signed up. The introduction of statutory reporting practices and performance in late 2017 added teeth to the Prompt Payment Code, but I note, with despondence, that of [...]

This month’s blog takes me considerably outside of my comfort zone but hopefully you’ll agree the subject warrants it. During recent years we’ve been following an extensive technology investment plan – upgrading plant and machinery and, very importantly, embracing digital solutions on a grand [...]

This article is not about Brexit.... Although I can’t resist stating that if our own business had advanced to the same degree as Brexit since June 2016 I’d be pretty ashamed of everyone involved; me included. Thankfully Fourayes has advanced significantly in the last [...]

Today we heard we’d achieved an AA grade in our recent BRC audit. And as there isn’t an AAA grade most of you will appreciate that’s a huge achievement. It’s also a massive credit to everyone in the business, to the systems and processes [...]