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Designed, built and tested in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, our range of self-propelled machines uses ground-breaking technology to deliver a specification not often found on other machines available in the crop spraying market.

Furthermore, all Househam self-propelled machines have been designed with low weight and even weight distribution in mind. This minimises soil compaction and allows the machine to be used throughout the year, minimising weather delays and reducing the risk of diseases taking hold.

Househam is dedicated to producing leading edge technology which is designed to offer maximum efficiency and ' future-proof' our ever expanding range of sprayers. Customers are supported around the globe with an experienced network of service engineers and dealers', ensuring help and assistance is but a phone call away. Providing world class technical innovation, research and development and testing and manufacturing services to deliver exciting, effective and efficient concepts for our global customers.

With over four decades of success within the agricultural sprayer market, Househam is able to combine cutting edge technology devised by some of the industry's best engineers with precision manufacturing and speed to market.

The Vision of Househam

The challenges faced by agriculture are massive. The ever increasing world population relies on the food agriculture produces and this represents a challenge for the industry, globally, unlike any other industry has hitherto faced.

However, bringing more and more land into agricultural use can have detrimental effects of the environment by encouraging deforestation, which releases more CO2 into the atmosphere, and the draining of natural wetlands both of which increase the risk of flooding.

By protecting and improving the vast areas of soil currently under cultivation and maximising its productive capacity with advances in plant breeding, nutrient management, crop protection products and innovative application technology, we should be able to go a long way towards producing higher volumes of food which is healthier, safer and produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.

Our aim is to use new and innovative technology to enable us, as leading manufacturers of crop sprayers, to produce machines which enable growers not only to apply crop protection products very accurately, but also to help protect soil structure by reducing soil compaction. Our links with the leading agricultural research bodies and our continuing dialogue with practical farmers and contractors helps us to produce leading edge crop sprayers which meet the needs of users around the world. 

As our name implies we are an international fruit marketing and distribution Company.  We source products globally, from over 1000 growers worldwide ensuring continuity of supply 365 days of the year

Established in January 2000, we are an award winning business supplying top Quality fruit to the UK's leading supermarkets.Specialising in apples, pears and avocados and with offices in Spalding, Lincolnshire and Whitstable, Kent, we employ in the region of 250 staff and turnover £114 million per annum.

Product is sourced from top quality suppliers in the UK, New Zealand, South America, South Africa, USA and Europe.  Our Packhouse at Spalding handles 4.4 million cases per annum which equates to 52.8 million packs.

Many organisations claim people are their greatest asset, but our Investor In People silver award in March 2014, and the FPC Fresh Awards Best Place to Work award in June 2014 confirms staff really are at the top of our agenda.

Our four Company values were chosen in consultation with our people and they chose - Passion - Quality - Innovation - Together. 

Our Company mission is to be "Customers First Choice".  With the introduction of a coaching culture and the development of a lean production system, continuous improvement is how we do business.

Kingcrab.co.uk is the internet face of a successful fish merchants that has been working out of Grimsby for over a third of a century. Our aim is to bring you shellfish and seafood that you will find difficult to get in your local fishmongers or your supermarket. Supermarkets don't like fish because it's wild and uncontrollable; in other words they can't dictate how we buy it. 

Although we have our internet presence we are real people who understand seafood

Since 1956, they've have been supplying farmers, estates, contractors and local authorities with a comprehensive range of agriculture and groundcare products becoming Europe’s leading distributor of agricultural equipment, parts and tools. And they are still based in Lincoln.

They have a 40-strong Field Sales team backed by 30 telesales staff and 7 Customer Service personnel. All of our people are experienced in sourcing the right product for the right customer, and are always happy to lend their knowledge and expertise to help you find the agricultural supplies you’re looking for.

Operating out of a 50,000 square foot warehouse and serving over 30,000 Agricultural and 4,000 Groundcare customers in the UK and Ireland, Spaldings has grown to become one of the largest agricultural dealers in the UK. And, with over 60 years’ experience dealing in farm and groundcare equipment, we can help your business source the tools, supplies and equipment it needs quickly and efficiently.

The Water Management Alliance

The Water Management Alliance (WMA) is a group of like-minded Internal Drainage Boards (known as IDBs) operating in the Anglian Region. We are building resource and capacity in the Anglian region in order to meet the challenges of climate change, sustainable water and flood risk management.  The WMA works closely with our IDB’s, partners, communities and individuals to secure new funding streams and deliver innovative approaches at a local level.  

We welcome partnership approaches and aim to deliver value for money projects using local expertise and experience.  

Did you know Internal Drainage Boards…?

• date back some 900 years and are one of Europe’s oldest water management organisations.
  
• have statutory powers to undertake flood defence and water management works. 
  
• aim to manage water levels and flood risk management for people and wildlife sustainably and aim to limit impacts of flood and drought within their drainage districts.  
  
• are collectively one of the biggest managers of freshwaters and wetlands in the UK.  
  
• manage drainage districts that cover 10% of the land in England and Wales.
  
• manage and maintain over 500 pumping stations, 22,000 km of watercourse and numerous sluices and weirs for people and wildlife.  
  

The Water Management Alliance works for and on behalf of other Flood Risk Management Authorities as well as community groups, NGO’s and landowners.  We also deliver significant flood risk management benefits and enhanced environmental outcomes on the ground.  Our members are all independent and democratically accountable statutory bodies who seek to protect some 548,000 hectares in East Anglia. 

The WMA Eastern Drainage Boards include the Broads IDB, East Suffolk IDB and the Norfolk Rivers IDB.  

South Holland:

This  includes some of the most fertile arable land in the world and is widely recognised as the bread basket of Britain. The area is home to around 60,000 people, a thriving local economy and an increasingly popular tourist destination that attracts visitors from around the country. The area is both locally and nationally important and worth the cost of defending and protecting, now and in future.

Although the entire area is at considerable theoretical risk of river flooding and inundation from the sea, the actual risk is substantially reduced by the work that we do in partnership with Local Authorities, the Environment Agency and Natural England.

The area's full watershed catchment area draining to the Drainage District is the same as the Drainage District, which means that we can provide a better service than we might otherwise be able to: this is because we are not compelled to take surface water from outside the Drainage District that we have no control over. This gives us an advantage in being able to protect the people of South Holland and reduce the risk of flooding.

If you choose to work for the WMA or any of its Member Boards you will be joining an organisation which is striving to provide employees with a positive employment experience. Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.

To find out more about the WMA follow them on @The_WMA  

Uncle Henry’s is a farm shop, butchery and cafe located next to the village of Grayingham. It is part of a family arable and pig farming business and is managed by Emma Blandford, daughter of owners Steve and Meryl Ward. We major on great taste and sourcing local. Our shop and butchery offer the full range and we are proud to support over 45 Lincolnshire producers; our local food heroes! We see ourselves as a hub of local food and an outlet for local food businesses to showcase their product. 
We produce and make many of the products that we sell ourselves and we’re always developing new lines to add to our range. All of our pork is home reared and we buy in beef, lamb & poultry locally and butcher it ourselves. Our butchery team cure our own bacon and ham and produce many added value cuts and products including our BBC One Show Award Winning Lincolnshire Sausage. We have been working with the Lincolnshire CO-OP for over a year now, initially wholesaling our cooked ham and pork into their stores under the Uncle Henry’s brand and this year expanding our range to include Caramelised Onion Sausages, Lincolnshire Sausagesand our home-cured Traditional Short Back Bacon. 

All of our efforts would not be possible without our dedicated team who are local people themselves and are essential to our business success. 
We recruit people who are passionate about food and our business. Over the years, we have established managers of the three core budget departments; shop, café and butchery. 
The staffing that is below management level is based around setting up full and part-time positions. These give member of the team hours that they are comfortable working and benefit the business through acquiring a flexible workforce that can respond to periods of high customer demand.  Our young weekend team are a valuable part of the business and are expected to take a high degree of responsibility whilst benefiting by building up key life skills.

We invest in their training and development and make Uncle Henry’s an enjoyable place to work. Training requirements are tailored to the individual at management level and our front of house team have an on-going customer service development training programme. 
Aside from staff training around our customer care requirements, we hold a team brief each morning to discuss any previous challenges and what’s happening throughout the day ahead. We are continually building staff product knowledge and are helped by suppliers coming into store for samplings. 
We also have our own monthly mystery shopper which is an invaluable tool for continuous training and development and provides a great opportunity to reward good service.

Our plan for this year, in order to grow our business further, is to focus on continuing to attract both new and also our regular loyal customers but also to promote the great value of our fantastic food offer to our customers. We are continuing to grow our image as a destination for all age groups and working with key partners such as Visit Lincoln over the past year is a key element in our strategic planning process as we continually work on achieving this.

Founded in 2006, Ripe Now Ltd. is a company based within the Fresh Produce sector. We import tropical fruit (such as mango, pomegranate and kiwi) from across the globe and ripen them in-house to our customer's specification. Our customers also ask us to pack their own, known as 3rd party packing. These products include anything from bananas and pineapples to sweet potato and butternut squash.

We employ just over 100 people, the vast majority being based within our Production department. Other areas of the business include Commercial, Procurement, Finance, Warehouse, Technical, Human Resources and Quality – we like to think of ourselves as a family!

As a small company we value people as individuals and offer a friendly, flexible and engagement working environment. We are experts within our field – something that is acknowledged by our customers, suppliers and competitors. We are also focused on helping the communities within our supply base and ensuring that our supply chain is ethical and socially responsible.

The fresh produce industry is forever evolving based on consumer needs, supply availability and new product development. The industry is challenging at the moment, however the constant change makes it an exciting place to be – there is no time to be bored!

The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.

The NCFM is also committed to helping the sector innovate. We work with employers and partners towards this goal, aided by our partnership with leading equipment suppliers and our outstanding specialist facilities, food factory and cutting-edge automation.

NCFM offer a range of opportunities for business and employees. These cover opportunities for studying apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships, research and innovation.

Southwell is our home, and has been from the very start. For over 50 years we’ve been kneading, beating and mixing, and our range has grown into a wide and varied selection of traditional and continental breads, hand finished confectionary and irresistible cream cakes.

Our dedicated team sell, produce, pack and deliver the 80,000 retail items we sell every day, six days a week. We also keep our ovens fired up 24 hours a day to ensure only the freshest quality baked goods are delivered to our customers.

You'll find our range on the shelves of stores from Liverpool to Grimsby, Sheffield to Peterborough, and in over 230 co-op food stores throughout Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.