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Name:Shirley Edwards
and Caroline Blake - Edwards & Blake
Location: Swaffham
Sector: Catering
Turnover: £8.2m
Staff: 500
Website:
www.edwardsandblake.co.uk
and Caroline Blake - Edwards & Blake
Location: Swaffham
Sector: Catering
Turnover: £8.2m
Staff: 500
Website:
www.edwardsandblake.co.uk
Shirley Edwards and Caroline Blake - Edwards & Blake
It has been a good year for contract catering company Edwards & Blake.
From a turnover of £5.3m in 2007, the Swaffham based company has bumped up its end of year turnover projections from a predicted £8m to £10m for this year. This is after winning contracts with the likes of pub and brewing giant Greene King, Bayer CropScience in Norwich, King Edward VII School at King’s Lynn, Lowestoft College and the Premier Foods factory at Wisbech.
In June it won a three-year contract to provide a staff restaurant and vending services for some 750 staff at the Tulip meat factory in King’s Lynn, part of the Danish Crown Group. The services were previously supplied by a firm from Birmingham. As a result, staff numbers have increased from 400 to 500 in the past six months.
“Edwards & Blake is a regionally based company, rather than one of the big national caterers, and can therefore offer a much more personal, flexible and responsive service.
“That’s what clients are increasingly demanding and why we’re experiencing such strong growth, despite challenging economic conditions and tough competition for every contract.”
Launched in offices in Dereham in 1998, the firm is now headquartered in Turbine Way, Swaffham. Turnover at Edwards & Blake has been increasing every year since it recorded sales worth £126,000 in 1998. In 2007, turnover stood at £5.3m and rose to £8.2m last year.
It now provides contract catering at 60 locations across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Essex and Bedfordshire – serving more than 8,500 meals a day to employees, schoolchildren and students.
Its biggest client is poultry producer Moy Park, catering for 3,500 employees across the group. Other clients include Birds Eye, Adrian Flux Insurance, Kerry Foods, Banham Poultry and Hain Celestial.
It has been a good year for contract catering company Edwards & Blake.
We’re experiencing strong growth despite...tough competition.
Set up by Shirley Edwards and Caroline Blake
12 years ago, 70pc of its work comprises staff
restaurant facilities for offices and factories.From a turnover of £5.3m in 2007, the Swaffham based company has bumped up its end of year turnover projections from a predicted £8m to £10m for this year. This is after winning contracts with the likes of pub and brewing giant Greene King, Bayer CropScience in Norwich, King Edward VII School at King’s Lynn, Lowestoft College and the Premier Foods factory at Wisbech.
In June it won a three-year contract to provide a staff restaurant and vending services for some 750 staff at the Tulip meat factory in King’s Lynn, part of the Danish Crown Group. The services were previously supplied by a firm from Birmingham. As a result, staff numbers have increased from 400 to 500 in the past six months.
“Edwards & Blake is a regionally based company, rather than one of the big national caterers, and can therefore offer a much more personal, flexible and responsive service.
“That’s what clients are increasingly demanding and why we’re experiencing such strong growth, despite challenging economic conditions and tough competition for every contract.”
Launched in offices in Dereham in 1998, the firm is now headquartered in Turbine Way, Swaffham. Turnover at Edwards & Blake has been increasing every year since it recorded sales worth £126,000 in 1998. In 2007, turnover stood at £5.3m and rose to £8.2m last year.
It now provides contract catering at 60 locations across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Essex and Bedfordshire – serving more than 8,500 meals a day to employees, schoolchildren and students.
Its biggest client is poultry producer Moy Park, catering for 3,500 employees across the group. Other clients include Birds Eye, Adrian Flux Insurance, Kerry Foods, Banham Poultry and Hain Celestial.