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Christian Nugent – Meat Purchasing Manager

By Lindsay|2021-03-30T14:42:18+01:00March 30th, 2021|Categories: Staff Case Studies|

Christian Nugent
Meat Buying Manager

For many years, Christian worked in the retail sector until he decided to take a change in direction. He joined our butchery team in 2011 and became a trained butcher. With his skills and knowledge he was soon promoted to Meat Buyer.

Christian’s promotion

His eye for quality, understanding seasonal availability, customer demands and ensuring value for money, soon seen Christian promoted to Meat Purchasing Manager.

“Pioneer likes to promote within and this creates opportunity for everyone! From day one, Graham and David have been supportive and I’m allowed to work autonomously as I’ve been encouraged to be responsible for my […]

Michael Brown – Purchasing Director

By Lindsay|2021-03-30T14:43:07+01:00August 12th, 2019|Categories: Staff Case Studies|

Michael Brown
Purchasing Director

The start of Michael’s career …

Just before his 19^th birthday, Michael joined the Pioneer family.

His initial role as Coldstore Operative and as a qualified forklift driver involved him loading and unloading delivery vehicles and putting away delivered stock. An important role in the busy coldstore where orderliness is key to ensure customer deliveries are accurate and on time.

“I enjoy working for a strong family-run business which leads from the front, with ambition to grow and create great career opportunities in this region and I’m always encouraging my staff to aim for […]

Our February deals are out now!

By Lindsay|2018-01-29T09:51:57+00:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|

Our February deals are out now!

Our new Flavour of the Month offers a great round-up of quality products at great prices.

We are currently celebrating our 140^th year of producing fine goods and products and are proud supporters of all things local. This month we have a feature which details just how we supported local farmers and producers last year.

Once again, we are running our rewards scheme. For every £1 spent when ordering online, you will receive a point and as we all know, points make prizes or in this case, a tasty credit to your account! See our online page for further […]

Practical advice provides inspirational menu ideas

By Lindsay|2018-01-24T14:51:50+00:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|

Practical advice provides inspirational menu ideas

John Cowen, our butchery sales manager, recently visited The Anchor Hotel in Haydon Bridge to give their chefs some inspiration and ideas for fresh meat products to feature on their menus.

The Anchor Hotel in Haydon Bridge prides itself on providing its customers with first-class locally sourced food.

John’s role often calls for him to give hands-on practical advice to our customers. During his visit, John helped them produce five individual dishes which included pork cutlet French trimmed, French trimmed rack of lamb and oxtail pie with sirloin cannons. Ecstatic with the outcome, the team have decided to initially adopt three of the dishes for the […]

Xmas Jumper Day fundraising total announced

By Lindsay|2018-01-30T12:19:13+00:00January 20th, 2018|Categories: Community, Latest News|

Xmas Jumper Day fundraising total announced for Eden Valley Hospice

This year we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 15^th December and chose a charity which is close to our hearts, Eden Valley Hospice in Carlisle.

We can reveal the grand total of our fundraising efforts is £166.

Natalie Bingham, corporate fundraiser for the hospice visited us to complete the handover. Natalie says: ‘’ We were delighted that Pioneer chose to support us by donning their Christmas Jumpers! Not only is it a bit of festive fun on the run up to Christmas, it also helps raise valuable funds for the hospice at the same time.

The team managed to raise […]

Xmas Jumper Day 2017

By Lindsay|2018-01-30T15:08:23+00:00January 10th, 2018|Categories: Community, Latest News|

Xmas Jumper Day 2017

Once again, we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day with enthusiasm!

On Friday 15th December, we all came to work in the smartest Christmas themed jumpers we could find – some even donned inventive pudding and snowmen outfits. This year more of our staff took part, including several staff from our Gateshead depot.

Although, the day was full of fun there was a sincere note about the event as we were raising vital funds for Eden Valley Hospice. The hospice provides care to those affected by life limiting illnesses throughout north Cumbria.

We would like to thank all staff and […]

Halloween fun down on the farm

By Lindsay|2018-01-10T14:17:50+00:00January 10th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|

Halloween fun down on the farm

Once again, Walby Farm Park helped children (and their families) celebrate Halloween in style.

Neil Milbourn and his staff had laid on a pumpkin trail and patch for children to follow and then pick their pumpkins. The children were then able to carve out their pumpkins and get creative.

We supplied Neil with over 4,000 pumpkins during the half-term holidays as he was expecting visitor numbers to be high – the day we visited, it was certainly busy and both kids and parents were having a great time!

Creating links with a local supplier

By Lindsay|2018-01-17T10:08:17+00:00December 25th, 2017|Categories: Latest News|

Creating links with a local supplier

On Tuesday 10th October many members of our staff visited The Lakes Distillery in Bassenthwaite. We are re-launching a working relationship with the Cumbrian firm.

We have stocked their whisky, vodka and gin for some time now, however, we are excited to be launching a new range of The Lakes Distillery vodka and gin liqueurs.

It’s important that our sales, marketing and retail staff get know our stocked products so they are able to pass on their knowledge and expertise to customers and they gladly attended a tour of the distillery and undertook a tasting session.

Dee Slade
Battlesteads
Hotel & Restaurant
Wark

By Lindsay|2018-01-30T11:25:07+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Our Customers|

Dee Slade
Battlesteads
Hotel & Restaurant
Wark

When we took over the hotel 12 years ago, the existing chef was already using Pioneer as a supplier. We decided to stay with them and for the time we have been with them, we can say that Pioneer has provided us with a faultless service. Their products are great value for money too.

Kyle Phillips
The George Hotel
Penrith

By Lindsay|2018-01-30T13:20:53+00:00October 27th, 2017|Categories: Our Customers|

Kyle Phillips
The George Hotel
Penrith

I use Pioneer Foodservice for nearly everything on our menus. The food is great quality and deliveries are always on time.
Sue visits us regularly and she’s fantastic! She goes through the special offers with me and gives great advice. I regularly order online and it’s really good; the app is really handy.

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Christian Nugent Meat Buying Manager

Christian’s promotion

Michael Brown Purchasing Director

The start of Michael’s career …

“I enjoy working for a strong family-run business which leads from the front, with ambition to grow and create great career opportunities in this region and I’m always encouraging my staff to aim for […]

Our February deals are out now!

Practical advice provides inspirational menu ideas

Xmas Jumper Day fundraising total announced for Eden Valley Hospice

Xmas Jumper Day 2017

Halloween fun down on the farm

Creating links with a local supplier

Dee Slade Battlesteads Hotel & Restaurant Wark

When we took over the hotel 12 years ago, the existing chef was already using Pioneer as a supplier. We decided to stay with them and for the time we have been with them, we can say that Pioneer has provided us with a faultless service. Their products are great value for money too.

Kyle Phillips The George Hotel Penrith

Christian Nugent
Meat Buying Manager

Michael Brown
Purchasing Director

Dee Slade
Battlesteads
Hotel & Restaurant
Wark

Kyle Phillips
The George Hotel
Penrith