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 [...]

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 whether [...]

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’. [...]