Ingredients and processes you can trust

Sourcing & Procurement

How ingredients are sourced and purchased is crucial to the quality of the food that ends up on consumers’ plates. The right sourcing and procurement policies and procedures are also essential for protecting the environment, ensuring high animal welfare standards, upholding ethical business practices, and ensuring foods are properly produced in relation to allergen controls and halal certifications.

At Finedale Foods, we have robust sourcing and procurement policies and procedures in place to ensure we deliver the best possible service to our contract manufacturing clients while maintaining the highest standards from farm to plate.

We work with trusted suppliers who are rigorously and continuously assessed to ensure standards are maintained. We also regularly review our sourcing and procurement processes and policies to ensure they remain fit for purpose, making incremental improvements where necessary.

Ingredient Sourcing Principles

We use premium ingredients selected for their taste and quality

We only work with suppliers who are aligned with our commitments to sustainability and ethical business practices

Effective stock management to ensure continuity of supply while keeping stocks to workable levels and ingredients as fresh as possible

All our suppliers are thoroughly assessed, and we adopt a transparent and open approach to supplier relationships

The majority of the ingredients we source come from the UK, with some also coming from trusted suppliers in Ireland. We prioritise farming businesses and other suppliers that are local to our Norfolk factory

We have a policy of only using cupboard store ingredients to manufacture recipes for our contract manufacturing customers. We do not use functional ingredients

We have robust supply chain management processes to ensure consistent and reliable supplies, especially for key ingredients. Contingency plans are a key part of our supply chain management strategy

Allergen control and other dietary claims that we make, such as halal food production, are given the highest priority in our sourcing and procurement processes. We only source ingredients from suppliers with strong allergen control measures. We also work closely with our suppliers to ensure processes are fully optimised, such as clearly labelling all products supplied to our factory