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Merry Christmas One and All...

13/12/2019

 
From all of us at Stephens Fresh Foods we would like to sincerely wish all of our fantastic employees, valued customers and suppliers a wonderful and peaceful Christmas Time and a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year.
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CHRISTMAS 2019 DELIVERY SCHEDULE

18/11/2019

 
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Brexit

17/10/2019

 
In the event of a No Brexit Deal
 
If HMRC place duty or tariffs on any of our imported goods, we will have no option but to pass these on with immediate effect.

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NPD Update Low Salt British Sliced Ham

2/10/2019

 

Our latest NEW Product Development, A British 100 % Low Salt Sliced Ham in a 500g Tray, our response to FSA target guidelines to Lower Salt intake particularly in the education and healthcare sector, the FSA target guideline is 1.63 % salt per 100g of product, we are very pleased to announce that we have achieved a 1.54 % analysis per 100g of product.
 
Unique Selling Points and Point Of Difference for you and your customers
British
High Welfare Assured Pork
Reduced salt intake exceeding FSA guidelines
Validated shelf life of 31 days from production – INDUSTRY LEADING –
Food for Life Member
BRC A Grade Production
FSA Approved
Packaging is clear and fully detectable and recyclable Price £3.50 per 500g pack, 12 slices average, 29p per slice
 
Currently not a stock item until we build regular sales for this NEW item, therefore lead time of 5 days is required to produce, and is available in Whole or Half Joint Format or Sliced 500g, 20 x 500g trays to a case.

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We wanted to share some fantastic news! We have just joined the Food for Life Supplier Scheme.

24/9/2019

 
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We wanted to share some fantastic news! We have just joined the Food for Life Supplier Scheme. We are committed to providing a range of British Cooked Meats that meets the Bronze, Silver and Gold Food for Life Served Here standards 
To find out more about our products that can now be supplied under the scheme please contact us

Food for Life Served Here is a widely respected scheme, recognised by the Department of Health, Department for Education, and the Government’s Plan for Public Procurement, that is raising the standards of food quality, provenance, and environmental sustainability in public and private sector catering. We are now part of the Food for Life Supplier Scheme. We’re proud of our commitment to local/environmentally sustainable/non GM food.

Call us today to see if we’ve got what you need. Are you a wholesaler to business or public sector catering? We can help you. We are committed to good food and our range of uncomplicated UK OK British Cooked Meat products meets the Food for Life Served Here standards. It’s our way of supporting our customers to provide good food. Get in touch today to see how we could work together.

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August 2019 Employee Of The Month

17/9/2019

 
August Employee of the Month goes to our Younes Benazza for going above and beyond for his colleagues and customers, Younes Benazza has also been working hard to support all the various departments within the business during the holiday season. Well done and Thank you.
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Update On Pork

28/8/2019

 
Record price inflation across all cuts driven by Chinese demand has seen EU pork prices rise sharply as the global effect of China’s domestic pork shortage due to the African Swine Fever outbreak continues to take its toll, again driving both UK and European prices upward across all cuts, including cooked meats and bacon. EU prices are expected to strengthen further as we head to towards Christmas driven by lower pig numbers globally and increased Chinese demand and expected seasonal demand.
 
China’s total pork imports in the first six months of this year already rose 26%, to 819,000 tonnes.
 
Latest HMRC figures show that exports of pork and pig meat products for the first half of the year rose from 166,000 to 183,000 tonnes, worth £268 million – an increase of 15%. Almost half of the shipments were to non-EU third country markets.
 
The prevailing African Swine Fever situation has driven demand for imported pork across the Asian region, and particularly in China. From January to June, the UK has seen shipments increase by 56% to 57,000 tonnes, representing 35% of total UK pig meat exports.
 
According to the AHDB and their recent analysis concerning a no deal Brexit situation, The UK is a net importer of pig meat products, particularly processed pork, however, considerable volumes of pig meat products are both imported and exported to the EU, under a no deal situation, proposed UK tariffs mean there will be significant differences in the tariffs for imports to the UK and for exports into the EU, These differences will present a number of challenges for the industry
 
Stephens Fresh Foods Ltd as a manufacturer of cooked meats we endeavour to purchase forward as far as we can to the correct specification of manufacturing quality pork legs of which is at a different cost level to standard grade legs of pork, buying British and EU (Spanish) from a BRC approved supply chain, we are being advised to prepare for significant raw material price increases by the end of September 2019 and as a result we will need to review our finished ham prices, and of course on October 31st  Britain is looking to exit the EU and is looking more likely to exit with a No Deal, this will add unavoidable cost implications through tariffs and currency fluctuations, over 30 % of the food we eat in Britain comes from the EU, fruit and veg is around 40 % so the threat of supply chain disruption and delays is a very real possibility in the event of a no deal Brexit.

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July 23rd, 2019

23/7/2019

 
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July 2019 Stephens Salute

15/7/2019

 

July`s Stephens Salute goes to Dan Coles from our Warehousing Department for going above and beyond for our customers, staying late to ensure a customer service. From all of us and our MD Paul Lawson a Big Thank you and Congratulations a £50.00 shopping voucher is coming your way.

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Order Cut Off Times

8/7/2019

 
Our aim is always to provide a first class product with a first class service, we have re-addressed our cut off times for full and additional orders for the NEXT DAY to ensure the efficiency and accuracy of your order and delivery.

Cut off time for additional and orders for the NEXT DAY is 15:00 pm

For customers that collect ex works from us, please allow 1 hour for your order to be picked and paperwork produced prior to collecting, we are open for collections 5 days per week from 8:00am - 15:00pm



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