Pukka Pies

Pukka Pies

Type	Private
Founded	1963
Founder	Trevor Storer
Headquarters	Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Key people	Tim and Andrew Storer
Products	Pies and pasties
Number of employees	320
Website	pukkapies.co.uk

Pukka Pies is a manufacturer of pies based in Syston, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. A family company founded in 1963 by Trevor Storer as "Trevor Storer's Home Made Pies", it was named Pukka Pies in 1964. It is currently run by his sons Tim and Andrew. It employs 262 people at its factory in Syston, producing 180,000 pies and pasties per day.

With the company's net worth of £35 million in 2003 and turnover in 2007 of £25 million, Trevor Storer was the 904th richest person in the United Kingdom according to a Sunday Times survey.^[1]

Products

The company's products include sausage rolls, catering sausages, frozen puff pastry,^[2] and non-meat foods, with the Potato, Cheese, and Onion Pasty and Vegetable Pre-Sheeted Puff Pastry Roll approved by the Vegetarian Society.^[3]

According to the company, the favourite pie flavours in the United Kingdom based upon its sales, are:^[4]

A pastiche of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Le Déjeuner des Canotiers hangs in the reception at the headquarters, with the original characters replaced by members of the Storer family.^[2]

Pukka Pies are most commonly seen for sale in chip shops. In 2008 the company started selling its pies in UK supermarkets for the customer to heat up at home.

Sale at football grounds

Millmoor, then the home ground of Rotherham United F.C., was the first sporting venue where Pukka Pies were sold. Rotherham United's supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption 40% above the Football League average.^[5]

Promotion

Several workers at the factory posed for a nude calendar for 2006, in order to raise money for the Tsunami Appeal and the NSPCC.^[6]

Advertising slogans have included "Socialise with Pukka Pies" and "Pukka Pies, don't compromise", which has been the subject of satire.^[7]

The main stand at Boundary Park, home of Oldham Athletic A.F.C., is called the Pukka Pies stand. It is also called the Pukka Pies stand for the main stand of Rotherham's home, New York Stadium.^[8] The company is the official sponsor of the widely criticised^[9] England Band, who also play for Sheffield Wednesday.^[10]

The company sponsored the 2009 UK Snooker Championship,^[11] and the winner, China's Ding Junhui, was awarded his body weight in meat pies, 276 to match his 69 kg weight. He later announced that he would donate all the pies to Homeless and Roofless at Christmas (HARC), a Sheffield-based charity.^[12]

See also

• Pukka Pies England Band

References

Further reading

• Michelle Knott (2006-03-01). "Who ate all the pies?". Food Manufacture (William Reed Publishing). 

External links

• Official website

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