Top Food Processing Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players in the Food Processing space. Our analysts selected these companies for a variety of reasons. This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Food Processing industry.

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SEMRush.

Top Food Processing Companies


BBC Good Food

BBC Good Food is a global food media brand, with a monthly magazine, website, app, live events and series of books.

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Gousto

Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.

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SimplyCook

SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant quality food in less than 20 minutes.

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Brake Bros

Brake Bros are the food wholesalers in the UK and are the catering and food suppliers of choice for thousands of businesses.

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Supercook

Supercook answers the question, “What can I make with what I’ve got?”

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Turtle Bay

Turtle Bay is the Caribbean restaurant group.

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Quorn Foods

Quorn Foods provides meat-free frozen foods.

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Cadbury

Cadbury is a chocolate producing company that produces a variety of chocolates and gives informations regarding it.

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Food Navigator

FoodNavigator is the number one source for news and analysis for the European food and drink industry.

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Mindful Chef

Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.

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Whittard Of Chelsea

Whittard Of Chelsea

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Planet Organic

Planet Organic is a natural products retailer company.

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Afternoon Tea Online

Afternoon Tea Online Food & Drink Company.

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Parsley Box

Parsley Box is the great new way to enjoy wholesome tasty meals at home.

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HonestBrew

HonestBrew is an online craft beer retailer, sourcing and stocking the best craft beers from independent breweries.

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Giggling Squid

Giggling Squid is a Thai food sensation

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Yogurtland Franchising

Yogurtland Franchising is a Food & Beverage company that specializes in pasteurised juices.

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teapigs

Teapig is is a Food & Beverages company that specializes in Food and drinks,a big thing about real, quality tea, sourced sustainably.

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Kaspas Desserts

Kaspas Desserts is an environment where enjoying authentic desserts with family.

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Muller Dairy

Müller Dairy is a dairy company with the will to win, the drive to succeed and the ambition to get there.

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HP Foods

HP Foods Limited, formerly based in Birmingham, England, was best known as the producer of HP, Lea & Perrins and Daddies sauce brands.

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Warburtons

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK.

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field&flower

A UK-based company that delivers grass fed, free range meat boxes.

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Bidfood

Bidfood is a food service wholesale distributor and the preferred supply partner.

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Weetabix

Weetabix, Britain’s number one cereal brand as well as Alpen, the leading muesli brand.

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Uk Juicers

Uk Juicers is a leading independent retailer of premium brand juicers & online portal that manufactures and sells juicers and blenders.

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Bakkavor

The leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a growing international presence in the US and China

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Pieminister

Pieminister is a Bristol-based family business known for making award winning pies.

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Carlsberg UK

Carlsberg UK is a promoting company of responsible drinking located in Northampton.

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William Reed Business Media

William Reed is an innovative and market leading media company headquartered in West Sussex.

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Seedlip

Seedlip is maker of the world’s first non-alcoholic spirits.

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TheVeganKind

TheVeganKind introduce you to the amazingly diverse world of vegan products.

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Little Dessert Shop

Little Dessert Shop is a dessert food and beverage company located in Wolverhampton.

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Daisy Green Collection

The Daisy Green Collection brings relaxed and buzzing Australian food and coffee culture to London.

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Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness

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Hu Kitchen

Paleo-inspired, high quality, low processed, clean food restaurants.

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Premier Foods

Premier Foods is a food manufacturer, it available in British supermarkets and convenience stores.

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Thatchers Cider

Thatchers Cider is a cider making, creating ciders that are smooth, fresh and full of flavour.

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2 Sisters Food Group(2sfg)

The UK’s biggest private food producer.

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Kiddylicious

Kiddylicious, a children’s snack and meal maker company.

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Bettys & Taylors Group

Bettys & Taylors Group is a food processing company.

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Fox’s Biscuits

Fox’s Biscuits making household names such as Rocky Bars, Party Rings, Crunch Creams, Crinkle Creams, Chocolatey and Viennese.

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Pip&Nut

Pip & Nut Makers of delicious all-natural nut butter.

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Sauce Shop

Sauce Shop creates an alternative by choosing high quality ingredients to create better and more flavorsome sauces.

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EXBERRY

EXBERRY is a brand of natural food color for the food and beverage industry.

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Tulip Ltd.

Tulip Ltd. is an integrated prepared foods supplier with 12 fresh and value-added operations.

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TakeawayTaxi Limited

Takeaway Taxi is an On-Demand delivery service for fast food and local restaurants.

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Diet Chef Ltd

Diet Chef Ltd is a home delivered diet company.

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Supermeal

Supermeal is an online food discovery marketplace offering cashback to consumers on every single order.

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President Food and Drink Federation

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is the voice of the UK food and drink industry.

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Heck Food

Heck Food is a british company that produces and markets sausages.

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Bernard Matthews Ltd

Bernard Matthews Ltd produces and supplies pre-packed cooked meat products.

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Lincat Group

Lincat Group manufactures and supplies commercial catering equipment in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Poppy’s Picnic

The best natural diet for Poppy

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Whitworths Group

Whitworths Group produces and sells dry fruits, nuts, seeds, and other snacking products.

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Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co

Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co is a real game changer for premium food-on-the-go.

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Belvoir Fruit Farms

Belvoir Fruit Farms is a food and beverage company located in Loughborough.

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Tayto

Tayto produces and markets crips and snacks.

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Livia’s

Livia’s specialises in creating “better for you” sweet treats.

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Aunt Bessie’s

Aunt Bessie’s is a UK producer of frozen food products under the brand name Aunt Bessie’s.

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Winebuyers

Winebuyers is an exclusive online wine club with a simple mission.

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Miummium

Miummium is an on-demand home chef service that is revolutionizing the in-home dining experience.

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Young’s Seafood

Young’s Seafood Limited is fish and seafood processor, providing frozen and chilled, branded and retailer branded fish.

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EAT.

EAT. is a retail company producing, making, serving, and creating food products for customers.

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Wrap It Up

Established in 2006 and operating in the growing healthy fast food market.

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Tyrrell Potato Chips

Tyrrell Potato Chips is a maker of potato chips.

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Ginsters

Ginsters is food production compnay.

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Holdsworth Foods

Holdsworth Foods is a wide range of chilled, ambient and frozen goods to caterers.

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Spring Chicken

Making life easier and brighter

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Mercato Metropolitano

Mercato Metropolitano is a vibrant space where everyone shares the same passion for food and social relationships.

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Good & Proper Tea

Good & Proper Tea are London-based, premium tea specialists.

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rijo42

rijo42 is a U.K.-based company that offers a range of commercial coffee machines, coffee beans, and ingredients.

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East End Foods

East End Foods is a supplier and innovator in the food market.

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Hovis Ltd

Hovis Ltd produces flour and bread.

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The Naked Deli

THE place to go for Clean, Healthy, nutritious Natural foods, smoothies, GF refined sugar free treats, smoothies and cold pressed juices.

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Wyke Farms

Wyke Farms is a producer of cheese and butter in Somerset.

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Fresh Range

Fresh Range is a food tech company .

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The Ethical Butcher

The Ethical Butcher is a startup specialised in the ethical meat industry

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Nomad Foods

Nomad Foods is a packaged foods company. We aim to build a global portfolio of best-in-class food companies.

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Moy Park

Moy Park, headquartered in Craigavon is one of the UK’s top 15 food companies.

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Taste of the West

Taste of the West is a largest independent regional food group company.

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Adelie Foods

Adelie Foods is one of the UK’s leading ‘Food to Go’ businesses supplying a wide range of customers

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Pasta King

Pasta King, a food service provider, produces and offers pasta and sauce meals to schools in the United Kingdom.

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Doisy & Dam

Doisy & Dam makes and package everything by hand in the UK, using globally sourced ingredients and the highest quality organic chocolate.

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Eat Natural

Eat Natural is a manufacturer and retailer of gluten-free snacks and dry fruit products.

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TrooFoods

TrooFoods make delicious prebiotic-packed food that nourishes your good gut bacteria, essential for your physical and mental wellbeing.

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Bakedin

Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.

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Squirrel

All day fast casual healthy food and drink concept set within such natural surroundings that even a squirrel would feel at home!

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Miso Tasty

Miso Tasty is a Japanese food brand based out of London.

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Tri-Star Packaging Supplies

Tri-Star Packaging Supplies is a manufacturer of food packaging products.

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Bowman Ingredients

Bowman Ingredients specialises in the production of food coatings for customers in the global food processing industry.

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Leaker Direct Distribution

Leaker Direct is the largest independent distributor of appliances which stocks the biggest brands in the industry at competitive prices.

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Weedingtech

Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.

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Bobby’s Foods Northwest

St Helens based distribution services provider Bobby’s Foods.

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Monty’s Bakehouse

Monty’s Bakehouse is one of the suppliers of premium, hand held snacks to the travel industry.

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Hunter & Gather Foods

H&G created the first Avocado Oil Mayonnaise in the UK and Europe that is free from sugar, gluten, preservatives and harmful oils.

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AeroPowder

AeroPowder is committed to ensuring that our future is built upon more sustainable foundations.

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Decadent Vapours

Decadent Vapours is proud to be the first e-liquid manufacturer in the UK & still remain unbeaten on taste.

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Kanes Foods

Kanes Foods is supplier of healthy, tasty and convenient meal solutions for everyone.

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Minor Figures

Minor Figures is a cold brew coffee that aims to make cold brew more accessible whilst upholding the quality and values.

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Double Dutch Drinks

Double Dutch offers a range of two premium soft drink mixers that are specifically developed to enhance the flavours of gins and vodkas.

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Dunbia Ballymena

Dunbia is a true market leader operating globally and our desire to create better food naturally is the driving force behind everything.

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