Dickinson & Morris, Charnwood Bakery and Ginsters all supply pork pies to a market worth around £160m. Like many of the products supplied by the Group, pork pies claim a strong heritage; the famous Melton Mowbray pork pie originates from the Leicestershire town where Dickinson & Morris still produce them, and where Samworth Brothers has its central office.
We are one of the few companies who can honestly claim to manufacture the genuine Melton Mowbray pork pie, a product which continues to delight consumers everywhere.
Dickinson & Morris and Charnwood Bakery are both members of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association which is successfully campaigning to protect the integrity of the product by winning a PGI status. Please visit www.mmppa.co.uk for further information.
Ginsters and Tamar Foods, both based in Cornwall are responsible for baking a wide variety of innovative and traditional pasties and savoury pastry slices. Ginsters is the massive brand leader in the market (with nearly 40% of supermarket sales), and is known in particular for its authentic Cornish pasty and Real Honest Food approach.
Ginsters is one of 40 members of the Cornish Pasty Association and is the largest manufacturer of pasties in the county. The CPA is also applying for PGI status to protect Cornwall's most famous export.
Ginsters and Tamar Foods supply products to this market, which is valued at £73m and growing. Ginsters are helping to grow the market for these 'food on the go' snacks by widening the appeal in this well-established market through innovative premium products such as its Roaster.
Tamar Foods, Charnwood Bakery and Ginsters make a wide variety of premium hot pies for this established market which is worth nearly £200m. Saladworks also makes raw pies for consumers to bake at home.
Kensey Foods is the Group's major supplier of quiche to the retailers and our Ginsters brand. State-of-the-art equipment and Kensey's know-how combine to make some of the best quiche in the market.
Tamar Foods and Ginsters also supply sausage rolls and other pastry products to a number of supermarket customers.