Investor Relations & Trade Customers

Who we are:

Fiddes Payne is a privately owned company with the majority of shares held by the White family. Chris White purchased the company in 1993 with Lord Aylesford and Philip Smith. Chris developed the company throughout the following 15 years. In 2008, Iain Macpherson joined as Managing Director to steer the business through the next phase of its rapid growth.

In 2009, Ben White, Chris's eldest son, invested £2.5m in Fiddes Payne to allow management to accelerate the build plan. Ben and Jos White sold MessageLabs to Symantec for $695m in 2008. Jon Sutton, a partner at Dixon Wilson also invested in the business and assists with strategic financial advice.

The business is therefore both well funded and enjoys active shareholder participation in its growth.

Mission statement:

Fiddes Payne is a world-class leader in home baking and herbs and spices. Through constant creativity, we provide top quality, innovative products that deliver a high degree of customer satisfaction. We continue to build a fast growing, profitable organisation that values its consumers, customers, suppliers and employees and strives to deliver excellence in everything we do.

Core values:

1. We promote a dynamic culture of openness and autonomy, where all staff are encouraged to take pride in their work and offered challenging roles with the ability to develop through training and skills improvement.
2. We strive to be the most creative and innovative company operating in our markets.
3. We are a high energy, non-bureaucratic, fast-paced organisation, but not at the expense of efficiency and customer satisfaction.
4. We have a small flat-structured management team who work closely together to deliver company objectives and drive shareholder returns.
5. We market high quality products, fulfilling a promise to deliver the best. We define quality by evaluating the ingredients, freshness, safety, taste, nutritional value and appearance of all the products we market.
6. We show respect for our colleagues, communities and the environment.

Quality:

As part of our ongoing commitment to quality, our manufacturing site in Banbury has BRC accreditation.

Trade Customers:

We service our UK customers through a highly experienced and customer focused National Account Team. We also have a rapidly growing export business which we service though a combination of direct account management or through distributors who are experts in our product areas. For more information, please contact info@fiddespayne.co.uk or call 01295 253888.