New contract with Birds Eye
Christian Salvesen Foods has won a major new 10 -year contract with Birds Eye to provide pea processing and dedicated logistics services for Europe’s largest pea processing factory in Hull.
The GBP 10 million investment with Birds Eye will be operational by May 2008 and the project will see the current Christian Salvesen site in Salvesen Way, on the Brighton Street industrial estate, expanded with the addition of a new factory capable of handling more than 50,000 tonnes of processed peas each year.
This latest project strengthens the existing partnership between Salvesen and Birds Eye and provides cold storage, distribution and processing facilities at the factory to be built by Birds Eye. The company and Christian Salvesen Foods have a strong partnership that currently also provides processing and cold storage facilities in Lowestoft – an operation that has been working successfully for more than seven years.
Colin Miles, Managing Director of Christian Salvesen Foods, believes this new project further strengthens Salvesen’s position as a leading provider of value added services to the food processing sector. “Birds Eye expects quality and a high standard of logistical expertise and that is what we provide at Christian Salvesen. We already provide a number of high quality value-added logistics and processing services to Birds Eye and other major food retailers and this new contract demonstrates our commitment to this sector.”
Jon Strachan, European Supply Chain Director for the Birds Eye Iglo Group commented, “We are very pleased to have negotiated this long-term dedicated contract with Salvesens that enables us to use their capabilities in this primary processing area whilst retaining in-house our key areas of know-how in the agriculture, secondary processing and packing of our high quality peas. We have a long-standing working relationship with the Salvesens team and this together with these exciting plans gives us every confidence that this investment will create value for both businesses.”
