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The company began in the village of “Banham” in 1959, and moved to the ex- Buxted factory in Attleborough in the 1980’s.
Following a serious fire, in August 1998, the company purchased and re-developed an old redundant cider factory, and re-commenced processing at the current Station Road site in January 1999.
The company has been based at Attleborough for the past 30 years. In the last few years, there has been restructure at board level, still headed by Michael Foulger as MD, but now supported by 4 Executive Directors.
The company has its own Hatchery, which supplies all farms producing poultry for the company, these may be owned, rented or leased, but all are registered under the ACP scheme.
The company employs c600 on a two shift system. The plant size is 50,000², on a 12 acre / 4.85 hectare site. The quantity of finished product is around 55% wholebird and 45% portions, representing over 21.8 million birds'.
Product distribution is via the company’s own refrigerated transport, which is based at our former manufacturing site at Bunns Bank.
The Company supplies chicken to major supermarkets, and other established stores and wholesalers throughout the United Kingdom.
The company operates under the license number UK 5464 EC, and is also Assured Chicken Production (ACP) approved.
Banham Poultry Limited still a family run business, has always been a forward thinking company and usually involved in cutting edge technology with regards to processing.
The company manage and operates a group of Rearing Farms providing first class laying flocks that provide our own Hatchery with first class eggs for setting and hatching, ensuring the best quality control when placing chicks in our Broiler Farms.
All elements of the agricultural process are audited to ACP standards and conform to many retail protocols.
The company runs its own transport department covering live transport, chilled and frozen distribution. Our distribution reaches every corner of the UK, and we also operate with third party companies in a strong export market.
Processing takes place at our Attleborough plant (about 12 miles South of Norwich) The plant maintains high standards and is continually verified with constant auditing by the Meat Hygiene Service, and consistently achieves the highest grade within the criteria of EFSIS auditing “Category “A” for Slaughter and Cutting”.
Banham Poultry Limited as a company is committed to providing the highest quality products and service to all our customers.
We consider that the quality of the product supplied to our customers is of the utmost importance to the long term success and growth of our company.
Every care and attention possible is taken to comply with all relevant U.K. & EEC legal and safety requirements. We recognize that we must work as a team with all our customers, to provide the highest quality value for money products.
To achieve this we have implemented a documented food safety and Quality Management System, incorporating all relevant food safety and qualitative standards, making sure that all employees of the company are fully aware of the importance of the requirements within this document, to achieve this company's and our customers goal of a consistent high quality standard of products.
This Quality Policy was revised and adopted by Banham Poultry Limited and all its Employees in August 2007.