Phil Acock, MD & Mad Scientist
Phil Acock is the third generation member of the Acock family and is the driving force behind innovation, product development and sales at Fourayes. With a lifetime of experience in the fruit industry, Phil reflects on industry developments and market trends in his ‘Setting the Agenda’ Blog. Phil is also Vice Chairman of British Apples and Pears, the industry body responsible for the English top fruit industry.
And if you’re wondering about the Mad Scientist in the title, that’s all down to Channel 4 and its fantastic series The Food Chain, starring our very own Mad Scientist!
Watch opposite or view on YouTube.
Recent Blogs
BBC Kent Radio Interview 19th May 2020
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 [...]
Treating Britain Well
Treating Britain Well Fourayes is both a grower and a fruit processor so, by COVID-19 standards, we’re very definitely an ‘essential business’. That means our people are coming to work each day [...]
Just a moment…
I watched, in awe, the footage of people applauding those working through COVID-19 in our beleaguered National Health Service – applauding their tireless dedication and applauding in cities, towns and villages across the land. It [...]
Houston, we have a complication
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, [...]
BRC AA All the Way!
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 [...]
Learning is a Trial
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 [...]