The natural choice

Alfred G Pearce is a second generation family owned business, now run by brothers Simon and Jonathan Pearce. Established in 1959 to service the needs of the canning industry, the company has developed into a fully integrated operation involved in growing, processing and marketing vegetables for Food Manufacturers in the UK and through Europe, handling over 70,000 tonnes of products annually. 2700 acres are sourced and grown by Alfred G Pearce or by our Partnership Growers through the UK, Europe and New Zealand.

New Appointment

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Lucy Wagstaffe. Lucy joins us having spent two years within the fresh produce industry following her graduation from University.

Lucy is joining to strengthen and support our growing base worldwide. Her initial role will be to support our existing growing and supply chain, in terms of raising awareness to Customers on agronomy, variety selection and monitoring our overall crop quality.

Company Investment

August 2009 has seen the completion of a new high care packing facility. the £250,000 investment in this new area allows A G Pearce to offer its current and potential customer base a range of high care packed products from 80g-5kg.

New Appointment

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter George as a non shareholding Director of Alfred G Pearce Limited. Peter joined the company five years ago as Frozen Products Manager and will now play a supporting role to Simon and Jonathan Pearce in the day to day management of the business.

Salute!/Commercial

September 2009 saw the appointment of Neil Spinks as Prepared Commercial Manager at our Wormegay factory site. Neil has spent many years working locally within Agricultural and Allied Industries.

Medium Care Investment

January has seen the completion of a £900,000.00 investment, replacing all production lines in our medium care, and for the first time the inclusion of multihhead weighers. This has now enabled us to increase factory capacity by 30% through faster and more efficient lines. All equipment was supplied by Finus of Holland and the project managed by Projx Services.

Direct from the field

Crops are processed direct from the field, within a purpose built processing centre in Norfolk. Vegetable washing, grading and storage, through to final preparation and
packing is all undertaken under one roof
with full traceability control from
seed to factory production
line and dispatch.