Fresh produce supplier Fresca has announced bold plans for the coming year, with the first product to emerge from the Thanet Earth project set to hit shelves soon and a focus on UK product promised.
The Fresca Group is the largest privately owned supplier of fresh produce to the UK with eight companies including Mack, Manor Fresh and ValeFresh in its portfolio.
In an address to the Under 40s Fruit Growers' conference, Andrew Sharp, business development manager for Fresca, said: “We are actively looking for some UK product, home-grown producers and innovation - we’re not all about imports."
Sharp also heralded the opening of the huge Thanet Earth project’s packhouse next month with the first customers set to receive the cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers currently grown in the huge glasshouses in April.
The site currently contains three glasshouses, the largest of which is almost ten hectares in size. Fresca hope to construct seven glasshouses over 220 acres of land by 2010.
“We are very keen to meet new growers and for them to come and see what we are doing at Thanet - at the moment it’s all Dutch technology but we’re always looking for UK input.
“We were actually asked if we could host the British indoor land speed record attempt but thought it might damage our crops a bit,” said Sharp.
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