Northern Irish food business wins first listing from Tesco GB
Tasty Foods Cuisine, the Northern Irish specialist in convenience meals and sauces, has been listed by Tesco for two products for almost 250 stores in Great Britain.
The family-owned and managed business, based at Dunmurry, near Belfast, began supplying two of its sauce concentrates, Authentic Curry Paste and Authentic Gravy Paste, to Tesco GB on 1stJanuary.
The new business with Tesco GB was announced by Conor Daykin, an experienced chef who founded Tasty Foods with wife Kathy in 1990 to develop a range of quality convenience foods including sauces and pies.
Mr Daykin said: "The new business in Britain builds on our relationship with Tesco Northern Ireland over many years. With help and encouragement from the Tesco team here we were introduced to the key buyer from the supermarket's team at its Cheshunt headquarters and given the opportunity to present a number of our products.
"As a result of this presentation, Tesco GB listed two of our sauce pastes and these were on the shelves from 1January. This is an immensely encouraging development for us and will provide a platform for continued growth of the business especially in Britain, a key target market for us in 2014.
"We believe that there are significant opportunities there for our portfolio of premium quality foods which are based on our own recipes and use only the best available ingredients," he added.
Tasty Foods employs around 30 people at a purpose built 10,000 square foot state of the art manufacturing plant in Glenview Business Park. The company has achieved British Retail Consortium Grade A accreditation, operates from an EEC approved factory and uses the Food Standard Agency's Traffic Light System on all its packaging.
In addition to Tesco, the company supplies products to Asda, Sainsbury's, Musgrave/SuperValu and Spar in Northern Ireland.
The product range includes concentrated sauces, traditional homemade pies, quality beef lasagne, ready meals, fresh homemade soups, garlic breads and Irish stew.