Westbridge celebrates 10 successful years
May 2008 saw Westbridge celebrating 10 years in existence.
Westbridge has grown rapidly in the last 10 years to become one of the largest services companies of its type in the UK.
Founder Peter McNeil celebrated the event taking current employees and partners to the race track for the day where everyone enjoyed the thrills of driving high performance sports cars around Bedford race track.
Westbridge opens new office in China
Westbridge Foods has opened a new business office in the city of Qingdao in China.
Qingdao, home of the yachting events in the 2008 Olympic games, is a city of some 8 million people on the eastern seaboard of Shandong Province. A well established port links this extensive food production area to Europe with twice weekly container vessels.
We have been working with suppliers in a number of product lines in the area now for 2 years and in April 2008 began our first food exports under supervision of Westbridge personnel.
The office will be fully staffed with New Product Development, Technical and Administration services.
KFC Supplier of the Year 2007
This year, the Westbridge team, together with CP Thailand, has seen all its efforts culminate in being awarded "KFC Supplier of the Year 2007". This success was achieved in competition with over 200 other suppliers involved with the KFC UK business. The award was presented at a Supplier Conference in March 2008 followed by a global presentation at KFC Headquarters in Dallas, Texas, in May.
In the previous year, Simon Bielby of Westbridge Foods had been awarded the KFC New Product Development title for his work on Boneless Bites and Crispy Strips, a significant success in itself, so the Westbridge Foods team was particularly pleased to receive an even higher accolade 12 months later.
Both of these awards recognise the dedication and effort that has been devoted to the management, support and development of the KFC business, particularly in the UK but now increasingly more so in mainland Europe.
