Goldenfry

Goldenfry Foods Ltd
Company typePrivate Limited Company (Ltd)
FoundedWetherby, West Yorkshire, UK
HeadquartersWetherby, West Yorkshire, UK
ProductsFood Ingredients and Flavours
Websitewww.goldenfry.co.uk

Goldenfry Foods is a British food manufacturer based in Wetherby (Leeds), West Yorkshire.[1] The company manufactures most own brand supermarket gravy products as well as many of their own food products. In 1999, the company completely rebuilt their Wetherby factory, the modern building is now a modern steel structure with glass fronted entrances, this replaced a collection of dated sheds. The company employs approximately 200 full-time employees.[2]

Company history

The company started as a small independent fish and chip shop in Wetherby.[3] The company evolved to start making gravy and gravy products.[2] In the 1960s, the Sandbeck Industrial Estate started to develop in Wetherby, Goldenfry started to develop a factory there, the company extended their premises there until it reached maximum capacity on its site in the 1990s. The company demolished its factory and modernised its site building a new large impressive structure which opened in 1999 and further developments throughout 2010 and 2011.[4]

Aerial photograph of the site

During construction the tubular steel structure was unclad and could be seen around most of North East Wetherby earning it the nicknames Elland Road and The Pepsi Max after the football stadium and rollercoaster respectively.

In 2011, the company won a High Court judgement against three former employees who had gone to work at a rival firm and developed an own-brand gravy granule food for a leading supermarket. The High Court ruled in favour of Goldenfry ascertaining that the new venture had misused trade secrets and had privileged access to commercial information.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Gravy firm wins court fight". Yorkshire Evening Post. 1 March 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Food company in drive for golf market". York Press. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Goldenfry - Case Study - Ripe Design London, Leeds, Cape Town – A creative web, print and new media design agency". Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
  4. ^ "Planning applications". Harrogate Advertiser. 20 July 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  5. ^ "High court win and £6m for Wetherby gravy business in trade secrets row". York Press. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2018.