Day 32 - A VIP on site!
I’ve just uploaded a couple of photographs as we’ve had a VIP visitor here today.
Our guest was Fergus Balfour—the Birds Eye Managing Director—who’s not been up to see the pea harvest in Hull before. He had a good look round both field and factory and it was good to be able to show it off to him (as we’re all very proud of it).
It was a good visit, the picture attached to this post shows Fergie in the field with two growers from the Lime group. The gentleman on the left of the picture is George Pickering, the chairman of Lime group and on the right is Ian Wright, the field manager for Lime group.
Fergie had a good look in the field to see how the viners operate and then came back to the factory to see the process right through the chain from field to freezer and indeed, on to the plate. If you click through to the photo album you can see him being talked through the different grades of peas by Steve Howland, our pea guru and QA department head. He’s in charge of all taste panels and quality audits here in Hull.
A really good visit :-)
