date:Jul 30, 2012
The company, which processes over 48M cans of British-grown garden peas annually from farms close to its East Anglian canning site in Long Sutton, has reaffirmed its commitment to buy local produce.
Each year UK consumers munch their way through around 150,000t of frozen peas worth around 200M at retail, of which around 90% (135,000t) are supplied by British growers, according to James Hallett, chief executive of the British Growers Association. The rest of the crop goes mainly for canning.