FoodPro
Capabilities

Ready meal manufacturing capabilities, all under one roof

Recipe development, packaging and production in one 80,000 sq ft facility, backed by the buying power, storage and transport of Browns Food Group.

Our capabilities

An operative in hygiene clothing checks trays of rice and sauce on an automated line
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Private label and own label

Your brand, made in our kitchen. Ready meals and desserts developed to your brief, packed in your livery and made to BRC Grade A standards.

  • Products already used by ASDA, Iceland, Lidl, Aldi, NISA, P&H and Birds Eye
  • Recipes tailored to your brief in our NPD kitchen
  • Packaging made in-house for our product lines
  • Hand-crafted or fully automated production
A smiling FoodPro chef in the development kitchen
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New product development

From your brief to a finished, packed product. Our in-house NPD kitchen develops new dishes and adapts existing ones to your customers' tastes and your price point.

  • In-house new product development kitchen
  • Tailored products made to customer briefs
  • Ongoing new product and range development
  • Packaging developed alongside the recipe
Two-compartment ready-meal trays with carrots, peas and a Yorkshire pudding moving along the line
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Packaging

We produce our own range of packaging for our product lines, and keep looking for ways to use less of it.

  • Our own range of packaging for our product lines
  • Packaging innovation alongside product development
  • Switching to shrink wrap took 96 trucks a year off the road
  • Packaging, design and marketing support from Browns Food Group
Trays being filled with rice on an automated filling line
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Manufacturing

An 80,000 sq ft production facility in Wigan, offering hand-crafted or fully automated production with the consistency retailers rely on.

  • 80,000 sq ft production facility in Wigan, Greater Manchester
  • Hand-crafted or fully automated production
  • Grade A BRC Global Standard accreditation
  • Continued investment in capacity and energy-efficient equipment
How it fits together

From brief to shelf

  1. Brief

    You tell us the dish, the shopper, the price point and the channel: retail, wholesale or foodservice.

  2. Kitchen

    Our development chefs create recipes to your brief in FoodPro's in-house NPD kitchen.

  3. Taste

    You taste the samples. We refine the recipe until it is exactly right for your customers.

  4. Pack

    We match the dish to packaging from our own range, ready for your label and livery.

  5. Produce

    Your product moves to hand-crafted or fully automated production in our BRC Grade A facility.

  6. Deliver

    Frozen storage and transport through Browns Food Group get your product to depot.

FoodPro at a glance

Chapel Lane, Wigan

30+years
in the ready-meal industry
80,000sq ft
production facility in Wigan
Grade ABRC
Global Standard accreditation
6proteins
beef, chicken, pork, lamb, turkey and fish
5cuisines
British, Indian, Italian, Chinese and desserts
Trade enquiries

Let's talk about your next range

Tell us what you're looking for: an existing dish for your shelves, an own-label range, or something new from our development kitchen. A member of our sales team will get back to you.

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