Newly-badged Bawnbua Foods gobbles up £10m of new deals

Wigan-based value meat supplier Eurostock Foods – recently been rebranded as Bawnbua Foods – has announced new contract wins worth in excess of £10m.

The new contracts span a variety of customers including international supermarket chains, food manufacturing companies and specialist frozen food retailers.

Turnover has risen 30% since 2012 and now stands at £56m. Over the last three years Bawnbua Foods has invested £2m in its business and plans to invest a further £1m throughout 2017 to support its ongoing development.

This will create an additional 25 jobs for the company which currently employs around 250 staff across its sites in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, and in Wigan.

Much of Bawnbua Foods’ success has stemmed from its strategic focus on new product development and business diversification, the company said.

This has seen it move from mainly supplying frozen meat products to the UK’s retail sector, to producing an innovative range of quality chilled ready-to-cook meats, chilled slow cooked sous-vide meats and chilled value-added meat products for supermarket chains, food manufacturers and food service customers in the UK and Europe.

Bawnbua Foods currently supplies several of Europe’s top 10 retail chains.

Managing director Gary White said: “We are pleased to be unveiling a new chapter for the business as we continue to deliver on our customers’ requirements for convenient, great tasting, high quality meat products.

“We have been in the meat business for more than 30 years, and our focus has always been on innovation, service and quality.

“Our ongoing investment in our people and facilities has enabled us to respond to market demands and expand our portfolio to include a quality range of chilled, sous-vide and value-added meat products – which have been well received by our customers.”