No gurus, no magic. Just the best stock from a consensus of experts. Find out more and how to subscribe. It historically was known as a produce business, primarily known for importing bananas from the Caribbean. The banana business was sold at the end of 1995, and ever since the company has been focusing on becoming a chilled prepared, added value business in food.
Typical products are prepared salads, recipe meals, pizza, pasta, dips, bread snacks and desserts.
Our strategy is to offer the retailer dedicated management teams to look after their product development and their needs, and wherever the economics allows we also go for dedicated facilities, so that a retailer can effectively have his own factory. We run our business very much on a devolved model and in the UK we re running about 30 separate self-contained businesses, all serving particular retailers with particular products. We look for synergies on purchasing, marketing information and technical standards but we don t take away the focus from looking after the customer and developing products. The Wall Street Transcript does not endorse any of the comments made by interviewees, and does not make stock recommendations.