Stateside Foods
Contact Details
Name: Stateside Foods Ltd
Address: Direct House, Lancaster Way,
Town: Westhoughton
City: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester England
Postcode: BL5 3XY
Phone: 01942 841200
Mobile: 01942 841200
Website: http://www.stateside-foods.co.uk/
E-mail: hrd.requests@stateside-foods.co.uk
Opening Times
Monday: 08:00 – 17:30
Tuesday: 08:00 – 17:30
Wednesday: 08:00 – 17:30
Thursday: 08:00 – 17:30
Friday: 08:00 – 17:30
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
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About Stateside Foods
Stateside Foods has consistently grown ahead of the growth of the chilled pizza market, through our combined commitment to quality and significant investment in the business.
A long history of sustained growth
Over the last 25 years, the growth of the Stateside Foods business has been impressive, and we currently have 43% share of the UK chilled pizza market.
As part of the Freiberger Group, who are the largest own label pizza manufacturer in Europe and a global supply network, Stateside Foods has been instrumental in helping to shape today’s UK chilled pizza market.
We are primarily an own label supplier of chilled pizza to the retail market. Through development, flair and innovation, Stateside has become a major partner to the UK retailers.
With improvements in efficiency, we have been able to meet and exceed our customers’ growing expectations.
A solid philosophy
The four company values are Efficiency, People, Innovation and Quality.
Efficiency – Our aim is to produce products that are of the best quality and consistency in the market place. We achieve this through a combination of high volume production and rigorous cost control, together with investment in capital equipment and controlled production processes run by a highly skilled and motivated team.
People – Our people are our most valued asset and are at the heart of everything we do.
Innovation – A key process in the business development, taking us to the cutting edge of the industry.
Quality – Our quality management system encompasses all aspects of our organisation with clearly defined objectives, which are set to meet our customers’ requirements and to achieve long term goals for the company. These goals include the continual improvement of our product range using only natural ingredients.
Trading Partners
Our products can be seen in the chilled cabinets of many of the major retailers in the UK. Our close working relationship with our major customers is vitally important in achieving our joint business plans.
Our People
The Directors and management of Stateside Foods recognise our responsibility to ensure that all employees are trained and motivated towards achieving even greater success as one team.
Our people are our greatest asset
Stateside Foods’ Values and Behaviours underpin all we do as a company including how our people perform their work. As one team, we share an understanding of our values which have been developed through discussion groups across the workforce.
The Stateside Foods Values
- Efficiency
- People
- Innovation
- Quality
The Stateside Foods Person
To demonstrate our values, Stateside Foods’ people work to 8 agreed behaviours. We look for evidence of these behaviours when recruiting new talent to take the business forward. These behaviours are:
- Delivering business results
- Communicating effectively
- Promoting teamwork
- Being self motivated
- Aiming to continually innovate and improve
- Leading others
- Being reliable
- Acting with integrity
If you’re interested in working for Stateside Foods, find out more about working with us.
The Group
Südzucker is a major German food group operating across the globe. Employing over 18,000 people and with turnover in excess of €7 billion, Südzucker is the 9th biggest food group in Europe. Freiberger is a wholly owned subsidiary of Südzucker, and is the largest own label supplier of pizza in Europe.
Südzucker – a global food group
Established in 1926, Südzucker is one of the world’s largest producers of sugar. They operate in multiple market segments including sugar, energy crops, fruit and special products. Based in Mannheim in Germany, Südzucker has operations in over 30 countries across 5 continents.
Visit the Südzucker website for more information on this global organisation.
Freiberger – a global leader in pizza
Freiberger specialises in frozen and chilled pizza for retail chains throughout the world. Over the past four decades, Freiberger has grown to become one of the world’s leading and most successful pizza manufacturers.
Every day, Freiberger produce over 3 million pizzas for sale throughout the world, from Chicago to Shanghai. Freiberger creates bespoke products and is an experienced specialist in own label products. There are over 1,000 Freiberger recipes for pizza, pasta and snacks. The Freiberger recipe for success is a blend of customer focus, innovation and quality.
Visit the Freiberger website for more information on this global leader.
What We Do
Production
Fresh pizza from Stateside Foods reaches customers seven days a week from our state of the art factories.
Sustained investment in our future
Through our expertise in engineering and efficiency, we produce the highest quality products at highly competitive prices.
We produce a wide choice of pizza products ranging from Value to Premium categories. Across our facilities, we offer a variety of modern production processes. Through highly automated technology, coupled with our experienced workforce, we produce high volume, consistent, quality pizza alongside premium hand crafted products. Our operations meet the highest standards in food manufacturing.
Our business utilises leading edge systems across all departments from manufacturing, quality, planning, engineering and logistics.
Committed to quality
Stateside Foods is Grade A+ certified to the BRCGS standard for Food Safety.
BRCGS is an internationally recognised standard used by most of the major UK retailers. It is an assessment by independent auditors, allowing for an unbiased audit of our systems and standards.
We view this certification as an important tool to maintain and develop our high standards in food safety across every aspect of our operation. We also expect our suppliers to adhere to this standard.
Production Development
At Stateside Foods we value the importance of product development and have created a first class development centre that enables us to offer and present exciting recipes to customers. Our development centre has a fully equipped kitchen area, as well as presentation and meeting facilities. Our aim is to provide the perfect transition between bench top development and commercial production through a structured workflow process.
The highest quality product developmentOur Product Development department incorporates expert dough technologists, creative development chefs, microbiologists and supply chain and manufacturing expertise.
We work in partnership with customers and our manufacturing team to create bespoke pizza recipes which can be produced to the highest quality standards consistently. We carefully manage each individual project to create unique solutions and transform ideas into successful products that are tailored to match customers’ specific requirements.
We constantly monitor new trends in the pizza market and the wider retail and restaurant sectors, so we can offer guidance and advice on new trends and innovations to keep ahead of the market.
With extensive combined experience, the Stateside Foods Development Team has an in-depth understanding of the marketplace, ingredients and processes and prides itself on the close working relationships built up with customers and suppliers. This combination of creativity, technical know-how and industry insight means Stateside Foods has become the partner of choice for customers.
Continuous Improvement
What is Continuous Improvement?
Continuous Improvement is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, people and processes to provide excellence and added value for the customer.
Continuous Improvement at Stateside Foods uses two proven techniques – Lean and Six Sigma.
Lean Manufacturing
The core idea is to maximise customer value while minimising waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.
A lean organisation understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
To accomplish this, lean thinking changes the focus of management from optimising separate technologies, assets, and vertical departments to optimising the flow of products and services through entire value streams that flow horizontally across technologies, assets, and departments to customers.
Six Sigma
Six Sigma uses the rigorous problem solving DMAIC methodology to root out and eliminate the causes of defects – in short Six Sigma looks at the variation in a process and looks to decrease variation.
Many of our management teams and functional specialists are trained in the use of the structured DMAIC approach for use in the delivery of business improvement projects. We employ project sponsors for every agreed project, and have a rigorous review and tracking process to ensure we both maximise and sustain the benefits of every improvement idea.
Use DMAIC and data collection to drive the Improvement
D – Define a problem or improvement opportunity.
M – Measure current process performance.
A – Analyse the process to determine the root causes of poor performance; determine whether the process can be improved or should be redesigned.
I – Improve the process by attacking root causes.
C – Control the improved process to hold the gains.
The Stateside Foods Way
The key aim of any good continuous improvement programme is to involve everyone in making small improvements within their workplace – this is a key component of “The Stateside Way”, our internal Continuous Improvement programme.
We educate our teams in World Class Manufacturing techniques, and invite them through a series of highly interactive workshops, to generate improvement initiatives for their workplace, in an environment that promotes teamwork and collaboration in agreeing the priorities and measures for each team.
Our teams have taken the classroom theory into the workplace and begun daily team meetings to review performance and drive further improvements in their work area. These short meetings are conducted at the team board in the department at the start of each shift. Team members are encouraged to highlight problems/issues, and then complete simple problem solving to identify the ‘root cause’. These are reviewed at the team board so the improvement activities are visible to all the shift teams and management.
FOCUS IN
FOCUS IN is an acronym (or play on words) with each of the letters representing key performance measures for the team.
F- First for Quality
O- Organised Workplace (5S)
C- Cost (or waste)
U- Utilisation (or performance)
S- Safety
IN- Involvement
FOCUS IN is a strategy for the business in all major departments, to have FOCUS IN boards that allow us to analyse performance, focus our efforts, and improve the business operation.
Daily reviews at the FOCUS IN boards are held at shift handovers to discuss the performance against agreed set targets. Issues that are recurring are highlighted, and this begins a process of problem solving. The team takes the initiative to find the correct root cause of their problem. This is proving to be very successful in improving workplace procedures and has been embraced by the workforce.
Continuous Improvement so far at Stateside Foods
- Senior Management have been trained in the tools and techniques
- Senior Team and functional specialists to deliver improvement projects based on the training
- Internal Continuous Improvement Programme developed – “The Stateside Way”
- Approx. 430 people trained across the business in “The Stateside Way”
- Visual Management KPI boards installed across the sites
What’s next for Continuous Improvement at Stateside Foods?
- Continue “The Stateside Way” journey through workshops and teaching days
- Senior Team to work and engage with their teams to deliver improvement projects
- Further development of internal training activities
- Make C.I a way of working life not just a project
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility Report
Stateside Foods has consistently grown ahead of the growth of the chilled pizza market, through our combined commitment to quality and significant investment in the business.
It is import to our employees, shareholders, suppliers, customers and our community that Stateside Foods is run in an ethical and sustainable manner. We are committed to providing a comprehensive report on our social, economic, and environmental impacts and on the progress of our efforts in working towards the UN’s Global Sustainable Development Goals.
1. Our People
2. Our Products
3. Our Environment
4. Our Partners
5. Our Communities
Download a PDF of the Stateside Foods Corporate Responsibility Report in full.
Working With Us
Stateside Foods is committed to employee involvement and provides a variety of career development opportunities. Employees are actively encouraged to express their views and contribute towards business improvement through our Continuous Improvement programme, and also through the company suggestion scheme.
Vacancies
Our environment is extremely fast-paced and we look for people who are self motivated and reliable in their approach, to rise to the challenges that we face each day. We are focused on delivering business results and demonstrate absolute integrity in doing so.
As a company, we work as one team and you will be expected to play your part and lead by example. Change is embedded in life at Stateside Foods and our people embrace opportunities to improve how we work.
Communication lies at the heart of our business and we look for people who are skilled at promoting their ideas and providing constructive feedback to achieve our objectives.
Apply Today
We are always looking for talented people to join our team at Stateside Foods. Our people are the key to maintaining our competitive advantage and sustaining our impressive growth record.
If you believe you have what it takes to become part of our success story, then submit an online application or download, print off and complete the application form today or alternatively please send your CV to hrd.requests@stateside-foods.co.uk
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