It occurred to me the other day that Major Bramley, an illustrated character associated with the Fourayes brand since 1998, may be largely unknown to many of our customers now; especially those customers who have joined us in recent years. Whilst Major Bramley and his cohort [...]

Squeaky Chair Syndrome Following two years of Zoom, Teams and other forms of virtual meetings resulting from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, I can reveal a startling observation: in almost every meeting, someone has a squeaky chair.... Although everyone on the call can [...]

September was quite a month for us here at Fourayes, as we ‘broke ground’ on one of the biggest investments in our history – the construction of our Environmental Water plant More of that as the programme progresses. And September was also the month we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]