The Company became the sole marketing office for Swaziland Fruit Canners in 1984. In 1986, Peaty Millswith a staff of seven, moved to Bridge House and began to expand. Since that time, the Company complement has grown to seventeen and the product range runs to several hundred items from a wide range of international sources.

In the late 80s, a determined effort was made to become specialists in the emerging supermarket own label sector. Tesco was the first client - at the time they were ranked 14 in the UK. We now supply all the major UK supermarket chains and many further afield in the EU.

• In 1990, Peaty Mills and Co Ltd became Peaty Mills plc following the sad death of Derek Mills.
• In October 1999, the founder Arthur Peaty stood down and his son Nick Peaty was elected to take over this role.
• In 2000, Colin Young FCA was appointed Financial Director. In 2003, Mike Bailey, formerly of Bonduelle became Sales Director.

• In 2004 Bruce Henderson, C.E.O of the Rhodes Food Group of Cape Town joined the Board, replacing Richard Ferreira who moved to Perth, Australia to work on other projects.

• In 2006, we began to give full service contracts to supermarkets outside of the UK, in the wider EU. Peaty Mills now supplies all the top 7 supermarket groups in the UK.

• In 2007, Peaty Mills became the sole agent for Seneca foods, the world’s largest producer of can vegetables, who specialise in high quality sweet corn products.

• In 2008, wanting to further diversify, Peaty Mills were appointed sole UK agents for Reitzel Misrachi. Reitzel are one of the leading pickle vegetable producers with factories based throughout Europe and are now one of the top gherkin manufacturers in India.

• In 2009, Gordon Milligan was invited to join the board of directors, having successfully developed our industrial juice business.

• In 2010, Bruce Henderson resigned from the Board to devote more of his time to the rapidly expanding Rhodes Food group. Later that year Rhodes purchased the Sapco plant in Cape Town from Del Monte. Furtherinvestments have been made in the factory and Rhodes Foods Fruit Products are now able to offer products that are unrivalled in the market place.

After celebrating over 30 years in the business, Peaty Mills has continued to grow and in 2011 company turnover will exceed £30m.

The Rhodes Food Group - a fast growing internationally recognised company with over a hundred years of experience in the food industry. Central to its philosophy of Quality, from soil to shelf, is the need to be the best in all that it does.

With this comes a particular focus on product quality and customer service. This dedication to quality and service has seen the group grow from humble beginnings to a vibrant, diversified food business.www.rhodesfoodgroup.com



Seneca Foods Corporation is an independent, publicly-traded, food processing company. We are a fully integrated producer, having made significant investments in facilities and technologies to enhance manufacturing processes, increase line speeds and guarantee premium quality. At Seneca, we even develop crop seeds and manufacture our own cans to give us an additional competitive advantage. These capabilities have led many of the industry's leading food companies to Seneca to manufacture their products. Our geographically diverse processing plants and breadth of operations assure these companies that we possess the critical resources and means to deliver. Because we are not weather-dependent on any one region of the country, our customers know they can depend on us. www.senecafoods.com

When, in 1909, Hugo Reitzel founded the "Société des Denrées Coloniales" in Aigle, Switzerland, he had no reason to think that his company would become, almost 100 years later, an international specialist in condiments.

Our product ranges Hugo Reitzel are as follows: olives and capers, vegetables in vinegar, mustards and vinegars, ketchup and mayonnaise, salad dressings and other dressings. www.reitzel-misrachi.com