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
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 [...]
Another Little Prompt?
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 [...]
Change is in the Air
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 [...]
Watch this Space!
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; [...]