Robert Freeman Email & Phone Number

Liskeard, Gb

Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Interim, project work, technical advice or NPD consultancy on an hourly, daily or project basis. 36 years of experience now being widely used by many companies.Recent & current work has involves:* BRC implementation and management in food manufacturing and also Agent & Broker businesses.* Waitrose, Boots and Morrisons experience* Project management for a Vegan production facility including a site new-build, NPD, raw material sourcing and SALSA accreditation.* Auditing a major pub chains food suppliers throughout the UK and Europe* Auditing against the SALSA standard* Group Technical Advisor for a major ingredients importer and supplier* Implementation of M&S Food Safety Standard* Implementation of a Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative covering ETI, MSA, SEDEX, H&S and Environmental issuesFeel free to contact me for an informal discussion.

Stroud

Established in 1991 Green Gourmet is a British food innovation company. Green Gourmet creates dynamic brands and supplies a large range of Farm Assured and Red Tractor Accredited meat, poultry, MSC and MCS fish, vegetarian, organic, gluten free and bakery products for the food service markets.Green Gourmet’s mission is placed firmly in the context of their relationships with customers. Their unique business model and product innovation has been refined so that it enables the company to live and breathe a genuine customer centric positioning.The Green Gourmet portfolio of brands builds its reputation on award winning foundations.With its roots still in school catering, Green Gourmet services local authorities, elderly care and contract caterers with its’ Choice For Life brand. Green Gourmet has also built on the core business by diversifying into the travel and leisure catering market, with its Source brand in the buy on board and complimentary catering market. Green Gourmet’s products have been served on British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Thomson, Monarch and Qantas and are also exported for service to seven countries outside of the UK.In 2011 and 2014 Green Gourmet won their first and second Mercury Award, for product innovation. The most recent of these being the first pre-packed portion of cod and chips that is served onboard an airline. In 2015 the Green Gourmet team received The OnBoard Hospitality award this time for innovative packaging design.Green Gourmet was selected as a finalist for the West of England Business of the Year award in June 2015, and selected as Gloucestershire Business of the Year in October 2015.In April 2017 the business was given the Queens Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

Willersey, Glos.

Formed to provide expert advice to food manufacturing & catering businesses that have food safety, quality, legal or business development needs. Advice and implementation covered BRC Global Food Standard, SALSA , HACCP, , BEIC Standard, Organic Manufacturing, Due Diligence Systems, Supplier Audits, Labelling and Business Development.Audits were carried out on behalf of the SALSA scheme (Safe & Local Supplier Assurance)Other skills: Food safety auditingMeat/meat productsFish/fish products Ready Meals (chilled & frozen)Cakes/Bakery/DessertsAdditive free productsCondiments/Preserves Egg laying/packing5 companies, under my guidance, successfully achieved BRC grade A each year.I worked with the Punch Group for over 5 yrs to carry out food safety/hygiene/food quality audits of their kitchens. This involved setting up a separate Ltd company called Perfect Food and as MD, setting up an office and taking on 9 auditors to carry out the work.Training courses in Food Legislation and HACCP were given to regional food group members.

Manufacturers of chilled and frozen desserts, cream cakes, pot desserts, danish pastries and celebration cakes for branded and private labels. Also interests in retail shops and outdoor eventcatering. Reporting to the Chief Executive, with responsibility for 5 sites. Personnel: 45 Budget £900kResponsible for :Group food safety and quality standards, customer technical liaison, legislation, hygiene standards, environmental issues and new product launches for a 24hr, 7 days a week operation.

Manufacturers of Frozen and Chilled Further Processed Poultry, Pork and Fish products for branded and private label. Joined as Technical Manager at the Rotherham plant reporting to the site General Manager and Company Operations Director.

Manufacturers of Chilled Recipe Dishes, Delicatessen and Roast Portions to Marks and Spencer plc. Joined as Technical Manager overseeing the Hereford Further Processing Factory during the product transfer to the new £30m site in Wolverhampton and continued with the technical aspects of the Marks and Spencer Recipe Dish, Delicatessen and Roast Business in the new plant. Part of new build team. Reported to the Business Technical Manager. Redundancy forced a move to my next position.

Manufacturers of frozen branded and private label meat, pastry and confectionery products. Joined as NPD/QA Manager and promoted to Technical Manager after 12 months. Reported to the Operations and Technical Directors.

Retailers of frozen foods. Responsible for control of food safety, quality and hygiene at contracted manufacturing sites along with development of new lines in meat, ice cream, pastry and dairy products for the Iceland and Bejam brands.

Manufacturer of frozen and chilled meat, fish, vegetable and confectionery products. Responsible for development and launch of branded and own label meat, pastry, ready meals and snack products.