E-Foods Local – Provenance of Supply

At E-Foods we are passionate about our local suppliers and the magnificent products they offer, ranging from farm produced ice cream, to speciality bread. We have built up a network of over 130 suppliers nationally and our customers can work with great local producers without having the aggravation of any additional paperwork.

Most of our suppliers are owner-managed; with many being second generation businesses, and they understand the old fashioned customer values, where the customer comes first. Every corner of the British Isles yields wonderful local produce - and there is a fascinating variety of food and drink from county to county.

Local chefs want to work with local suppliers sourcing seasonal local food; and now your customers are more discerning about what they are eating and where it is from.

Have a look at some of our local suppliers and see the quality and diversity that is on offer.

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Local Suppliers

Wilson Catering, Manchester

Wilson Catering is a family run business with over 30 years experience, operating centrally on the New Smithfield Market in Manchester, which enables them to procure fresh produce from both importers and local growers, ensuring the freshness that we demand.
Wilsons pride themselves on sourcing top quality products locally notably Cheshire potatoes. These are bought from Edward Houghton at Weaver View Farm in Knutsford, the quality is acclaimed and attributed to the soil in the Cheshire countryside.
And Wilson’s supplies a lot of Lancashire cheese, produced by the Rhodes family at Park Head Farms, using milk from their dairy herd that happily grazes on 450 acres of land.

Neil Frost Meats, Manchester

Neil Frost is a supplier of top quality British meats.

Pork – Neil uses only Otterburn pork and dry cures the bacon himself. He specialises in producing handmade sausages in a range of varieties and only using pigs with an average fat covering. 

Beef – All beef products are sourced locally from cattle reared on farms around the Macclesfield area. The cattle graze on the grass of the luscious Cheshire countryside producing superior tasting beef. And all the beef is matured on the bone prior to trimming, to produce the tastiest cuts.

Lamb – Lambs are sourced from Deemster House Farm in Wirswall. They are slowly grown on the farm and fed on a natural diet of grass without using feed concentrates. The farm supplies its lambs exclusively to Neil Frost, which enables Neil to supply top quality lamb virtually all year round.

Poultry - Situated in Knutsford, Bailey’s Farm has been producing high quality poultry since 1965. The birds are fed on a natural diet of cereals giving the meat an exceptional taste and tenderness.  

Clements Premier Produce, Lincolnshire

Jason Clement bought the greengrocers business that he worked in as a schoolboy at the age of 20. He quickly grew the business and is now operating out of a warehouse and supplying the wholesale market with the same quality that he gives to his retail customers. Living in a rural farming community, Jason has always been passionate about supporting local produce and quickly became known as a supplier of fresh locally grown vegetables.
Jason buys cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and onions from Peter Burrell’s farm in Spalding on a daily basis to ensure outstanding flavour and freshness.

The Cheetham Family

The Cheetham family have been farming at Haughton Park farm since 1923. In the mid-eighties Thelma Cheetham started making her wonderful ice cream, using only natural ingredients and milk from the family’s herd of pedigree Friesians. 

Fresh milk and double cream, straight from the neighbouring dairy, is pasteurised, cooled and refrigerated with other good ingredients such as unrefined cane sugar to produce the basic ice cream mixture. As the mixture is frozen natural flavourings are added: local honey and local fruits, Belgian chocolate chunks, clotted cream fudge, hazelnuts and liqueurs to name but a few. 

Established for 15 years, the secret of the success of Cheetham’s Ice Cream is simple – people just keep coming back for more.

Mike Maloney Catering Butchers, Nottingham  

Maloney’s is a family-run retail and wholesale butchers and bakers that has built a reputation of quality and excellence over 25 years. Mike Maloney started out as a retail butcher in 1979 and now has four shops.

Mike’s daughter Alison helps with the day to day running of the business, and in 2004 production was moved to a purpose built factory to enable this thriving business cope with a rapidly increasing demand.

Maloney’s has won many awards for their delicious pies and sausages, and they are renowned for producing Beef Wellington and luxury quiches with extravagant fillings. And having won the Bramley Apple Pie Competition four times, last year Mike Maloney developed the Nottingham Sausage for BBC Radio Nottingham.

H & B Hawkes, London

H & B Hawkes can be traced back over 100 years to the time of Harry and Bert Hawkes who founded the company. They supplied potatoes to most of North London, delivering each day by horse and cart.
In 1962 John and Paddy Finn took over the business and over the past 40 years it has evolved into a major fresh produce supplier to London and the Home Counties.
The company has been family run since its inception, with core family values as its ethos. Quality of product and service are the essential ingredients that make them tick and run as an efficient cost effective unit. And now a fleet of 25 modern temperature controlled vehicles delivers produce to the company’s clients from Margate to Basingstoke and Luton to Brighton on a daily basis.
H&B Hawkes buy produce from fully sustainable local growers wherever possible and have a selection of top quality UK suppliers that they utilize whenever they can.
Now based in New Covent Garden Market, H&B Hawkes is at the forefront of the fresh produce and supply and distribution trade.          

If you are a local supplier who believes that they have a great product that our customers would love please contact us by email.