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!
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Recent Blogs
New luxury accommodation at Fourayes Farm
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. [...]
Can you keep it up?
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 [...]
Phil joins the Red Talk Panel on ‘Food after BREXIT’
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 [...]
Food Unwrapped at Fourayes
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 [...]
Phil’s March Blog – ‘Utterly marvellous’ that’s what I say…
‘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 [...]
Phil’s February Blog – How to Sight See
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 [...]